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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN sues Trump and top aides, alleging that the suspension of Jim Acosta's press pass is a violation of Acosta's and CNN's First and Fifth Amendment rights — New York (CNN)CNN has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
After Trump denied Jim Acosta a press pass, networks and WH reporters were left with a choice to protest the move or do nothing, and both options have drawbacks
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Quartz launches free new app with curated news stories and contributions from business leaders and introduces a premium membership tier for $14.99/month — Quartz is to launch a subscription tier for its business coverage and a new app that will offer aggregated news and user discussion …
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Nieman Lab, Quartz, MediaPost, Talking Biz News, @noahchestnut and @raju
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
In rushing to call the midterm elections in time for next-day analysis, journalists play into the harmful notion that elections are over on election night — Democratic strategist James Carville, on MSNBC, was among the first to make the proclamation last Tuesday evening: “It's not going to be a wave election.”
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Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo:
Spotify will roll out its Apple Watch app in the coming week but without key features like the ability to stream music on LTE or download songs — One of the big selling points of smartwatches is the ability to control apps without needing to pull out your phone.
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newsroom.spotify.com and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Richard Morgan / New York Post:
Source: the New York Yankees are planning to buy back the YES Network from Fox as Fox works to sell off its regional sports networks — The New York Yankees are in talks to buy back YES Network as Disney and Twenty-First Century Fox look to clear their $71.3 billion merger, The Post has learned.
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Bloomberg, Multichannel News and Awful Announcing
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pandora launches Podcast Genome Project in beta, combining its Music Genome technology with human editorial oversight to offer podcast recommendations — Earlier this year, Pandora challenged Spotify's personalization capabilities by using its Music Genome technology to create dozens of customized playlists for its users.
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Nieman Lab, AdExchanger and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
BBC:
BBC study in India, Kenya, and Nigeria: people are overly confident about spotting fake news and don't tend to question the source of the original message — A rising tide of nationalism in India is driving ordinary citizens to spread fake news, according to BBC research.
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@divyaspandana and Quartz
Thomson Reuters:
Reuters names Michael Friedenberg president of Reuters news and media operations, starting December 3 — Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI) today announced that Michael Friedenberg will join the company as president of Reuters news and media operations, effective December 3.
Rani Molla / Recode:
Smart speakers' effect on audio: NPR's listening hours from speaker owners up 15% YoY, podcast listeners skip ads less, Spotify users likelier to listen daily — Until we invent something that wouldn't be possible without voice, we're just repurposing online content for our ears.
Associated Press:
MTV expands its live events business to diversify revenue by acquiring SnowGlobe Music Festival, which runs for three days over New Year's — NEW YORK (AP) — MTV is expanding its live events business in the U.S. by acquiring the SnowGlobe Music Festival. — The three-day New Year's Eve …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Yahoo Finance is launching a subscription service, Yahoo Finance Premium, in Q1 2019 that a source says will likely cost $100+/month — Yahoo Finance, the decades-old money brand now owned by Verizon, is launching a subscription service that aims to compete with Bloomberg for the cash …
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
WhatsApp to distribute $50K each to 20 projects from 11 countries to research spread of misinformation on the platform; WhatsApp won't provide any user data — WhatsApp is paying a group of researchers to investigate how misinformation spreads on its platform.
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@drriley_writes
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
In covering natural disasters, newspapers often fail to tie them to climate change even when they investigate and cover climate change as a general phenomenon — California is burning again. Separate fires in the north and south of the state wreaked devastation over the weekend and are not done yet.
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