Mediagazer: Deadspin, owned by G/O Media, is planning a story on company CEO Jim Spanfeller; Spanfeller reacts publicly with plans for an outside editor to review the story (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)

Deadspin, owned by G/O Media, is planning a story on company CEO Jim Spanfeller; Spanfeller reacts publicly with plans for an outside editor to review the story — A friendly piece of advice for whomever ends up buying the former Gawker Media sites: Don't try to tell them what to write.

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

After six months fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact makes 10 recommendations, including expanding the program to Instagram, enlisting help on public health — In December 2016, Facebook enlisted a handful of U.S.-based news organizations (ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org …

Discussion: Poynter, Press Gazette, Full Fact Blog, Mashable, New Scientist, Reuters, Full Fact, RAPPLER, Press Association, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review and The Times & The Sunday Times

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:

Bustle Digital Group, which had planned to relaunch Gawker in September, has laid off Gawker's staff and postponed the relaunch — A planned relaunch of snarky news and gossip web site Gawker is on hold indefinitely, The Post has learned. — Bustle Digital Group, which owns Gawker …

Discussion: @timmarchman, @lyzl, @libbycwatson, @rafat, @jon_christian, @kevinmdraper, Variety and The Wrap

Jon Marcus / Nieman Reports:

A look at the debate behind the journalistic practice of strategic silence when it comes to naming shooters, addressing lies, and covering extremist ideologies — Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” …

Discussion: @mathewi and @niemanreports

Variety:

How WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey, a long-time AT&T executive and no-nonsense manager, is remaking WarnerMedia, trying to bridge the culture gap with Time Warner — Months after AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner, senior leaders from HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner flew out to the telecom giant's headquarters …

Discussion: Observer

Tom Jones / Poynter:

Internal memo says LA Times is nowhere close to meeting its goal of doubling digital subs from 150K in 2018 to 300K in 2019, having only netted 13K this year — Troubling news at one of the nation's top newspapers. — Digital subscriptions at the Los Angeles Times are way below expectations …

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

AMC Networks beats Q2 earnings expectations with $129M profit on $772M in revenue, up 1.4% YoY; US ad revenue fell 11.1% YoY — The cable networks company, led by CEO Josh Sapan, beat Wall Street earnings expectations, but fell short of revenue estimates. — AMC Networks, the cable networks company …

Discussion: The Wrap, The Wrap, MediaPost and @thr

Natalie Jarvey / Billboard:

Apple's services business, a division that includes revenue from subscriptions like Apple Music, iTunes, Apple Pay and iCloud, brought in sales of $11.46B in Q3 — Han Haidan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images — The division that includes revenue from subscriptions like Apple Music …

Discussion: Ad Age, AdExchanger, Fortune and The Streamable, more at Techmeme »

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

CNN's first debate, featuring divisive questions, frustratingly short response times, and outsize attention to fringe candidates, was a lost opportunity — About 40 minutes after the start of Tuesday night's Democratic primary debate, I got an email from a Washington Post reader with this subject line: “I don't care for this.”

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Slate, Bloomberg, @gadyepstein, @jayrosen_nyu and Hollywood Reporter

Napier Lopez / The Next Web:

Chrome's version 76 update makes it easier to bypass paywalls by closing a loophole that let publishers detect browsers in incognito mode — A few weeks ago, we reported Chrome 76 would make it harder to run Flash - because Flash just won't die - as well as potentially make it much easier to bypass article paywalls.

Discussion: Google Developers, BetaNews, CNET, The Verge, BleepingComputer, Memeburn, Medium, Google Chrome Releases, VentureBeat, Engadget, Gizmodo and ZDNet, more at Techmeme »

The Daily Beast:

Twitter suspended an account peddling QAnon memes and other conspiracies after Trump retweeted it; source says the account was banned for platform manipulation — Before Trump's RT, ‘Lynn Thomas’ pushed conspiracy theories about Democrats harvesting kids' pineal glands.

Discussion: The Wrap, The Hill and The Verge

Josh Kosman / New York Post:

Sources: Nielsen open to selling itself in pieces after failing to find a buyer for the whole firm; Blackstone and Goldman Sachs dropped out earlier this year — An auction to sell Nielsen Holdings appears to be a bust — but the ratings giant has not given up and is now looking to sell itself in pieces, The Post has learned.

Discussion: @andreamv and Ad Age