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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
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SportsBusiness Daily:
Despite speculation, neither Fox Sports nor NBC Sports bid on Fox's 22 regional sports networks last week by the deadline; it's now unclear who did submit bids — Fox Sports and NBC Sports stay on sideline for the sale, leaving the media industry to wonder who's in.
Discussion:
Awful Announcing
David Beard / Poynter:
A look at how the San Francisco Chronicle and the LA Times newsrooms are responding to the fires on the heels of the election and the Thousand Oaks shooting — The Poynter Institute's Morning Mediawire breaks down and delivers the most important stories you need to start your day.
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@audreycoopersf, CNN, CBS Los Angeles and Los Angeles Times
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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.
Discussion:
@guardian
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.
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Snap VP of Content Nick Bell, who joined the company in 2014 to lead Discover, says he's leaving amid a planned reorg under Chief Strategy Officer Jared Grusd — Another longtime Snap executive is jumping ship. — This time it's Nick Bell, Snap's VP of Content, who told employees that he's leaving on Monday.
Discussion:
Recode, @kurtwagner8, @carnage4life, @mat, Variety, Tubefilter, Adweek and The Wrap, 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.
Discussion:
@divyaspandana and Quartz
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
New York Media, parent company to New York magazine, will launch a paywall for its sites in the last week of November with $5/month or $50/year subscriptions — Information may want to be free, as an aphorism had it in the early days of digital media. But these days, increasingly, journalism wants to be paid for.
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The Big Lead, Folio, @karaswisher, @rafat, @kevin_reiss, @elongreen, @poniewozik, @caro, The Guardian, @jeffjarvis and MediaPost
Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Creator Blog:
YouTube CEO warns of unintended consequences of EU's Article 13 and says YouTube may have to block videos in the EU to avoid liability under the new directive — This op-ed originally appeared in the Financial Times. — Creativity has long been a guiding force in my life …
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The Verge, @susanwojcicki, Deadline, MediaPost, Business Insider and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Police report of protest at Tucker Carlson's house contradicts his account as it concerns spray-painting of his driveway without mention of damage to his door — The people who shouted threatening chants at the residence of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night did more than just unsettle a family.
Discussion:
@drrjkavanagh, Variety, ThinkProgress and @brianbeutler
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
NetEase Cloud Music, a music streaming service by Chinese games and publishing giant NetEase, raises $600M from investors including Baidu and General Atlantic — As Tencent Music, China's largest streaming firm, reportedly stalls on its proposed U.S. IPO, one of its closest challengers is doubling down.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Roger Ailes didn't want Fox News tied to one GOP politician and dissuaded Hannity from attending a Tea Party event in 2010, a control absent at the network now — NEW YORK — On election night at Fox News Channel, big red news alerts lit up the small courtyard outside Studio F where Bret Baier …
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@johnmcquaid and @daviduberti