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7:35 PM ET, November 21, 2018

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Toronto Star:
Canada to give tax breaks for journalism: a 15% tax credit for subscribers, classifying donations to some nonprofits as charity, and tax credit for labor costs  —  OTTAWA—The federal government is giving a tax break to digital news subscribers, a refundable tax credit to news outlets …
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
By pushing the “link tax” in the EU, publishers are shooting themselves in the foot because better options exist by working with Google to drive traffic  —  Within Google, some call into question the validity of helping the media industry.  By lobbying the EU on the “link tax”, publishers are waging a rearguard battle.
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Axios:
In a statement, Trump says the US will stand by Saudi Arabia whether or not Crown Prince MbS ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi  —  President Trump said in a statement today that whether or not Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder …
Bloomberg:
Facebook says its ad buying system is still experiencing glitches after an outage on Tuesday, which sources say affected major buyers, ahead of Black Friday  —  - Ad-buying system was down earlier for some major users  — Hiccups come as brands prepare campaigns for holiday shopping
Nathan Layne / Reuters:
A Russian company, Federal Agency of News, has sued to stop Facebook from blocking it following a purge of accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency  —  (Reuters) - A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc …
The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Network has been one of Trump's key allies in the press, with sources saying he was involved in its formation as an adviser to Roger Ailes  —  A decade ago, The Donald advised Fox News on launching its business network.  Now the Fox Business Network advises President Trump.
Shawn Vestal / Spokesman.com:
Jeff Humphrey, son of NBC News correspondent Don Harris, who was killed at Jonestown 40 years ago, recalls his father's murder  —  shawnv@spokesman.com  —  (509) 459-5431  —  Forty years ago, as he prepared to leave his California home to cover growing concerns about a cult community in Jonestown …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
James Billington, the librarian of Congress for nearly three decades as digital technology rapidly expanded, dies at 89  —  James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress for nearly three decades, who led the nation's treasure house of knowledge into the digital age and added millions of books …
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Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News:
BuzzFeed says it is ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims, but any decision to broaden changes to all kinds of claims is still under review
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Analysis of 14M tweets from May 2016 and March 2017 found bots accounted for 34% of shares of articles from low-credibility sources but were only 6% of accounts
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Nielsen Holdings names David Kenny as CEO, replacing Mitch Barns, who is retiring; Kenny, an IBM SVP, sold the data assets of Weather Co. to IBM in 2015
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Sources: Comcast will pay Megyn Kelly around $30M to leave NBC, though nothing is final until next week at the earliest
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Quartz AI Studio receives $249,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to create articles using AI, expects to work on six stories in 2019
 

 
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