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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook offered millions to ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post, and Bloomberg to license their content for a Facebook news section to debut in 2019 — Company approached ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post and Bloomberg as it plans to launch news section
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The Hill, @rafat, @benmullin, @jeffyoung, @benmullin and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Kim Kelly / Columbia Journalism Review:
Freelancer Kim Kelly describes how NPR parted ways with her citing her “activist stance”, after Tucker Carlson aired a segment about her — My life with heavy metal, Tucker Carlson, NPR, and strong opinions — My first byline was an article for my local newspaper's Teen Voice section …
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@samthielman, NPR, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, @sethdmichaels, @craignewmark, @sarahw, @freedarko, @nberlat, @femmefeministe and @samthielman
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook is testing selling video streaming subscriptions in the US, starting with four services including BritBox, CollegeHumor's Dropout, and Tastemade Plus — Facebook is dipping its toes into the subscription VOD waters — as an aggregator and reseller.
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Ad Age, Vox, Adweek, Fast Company, @xpangler, The Streamable, @mattnavarra, The Wrap and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Interviews with members of a 900-strong private Facebook group for advertisers on Facebook and Instagram showcase the unreliability of Facebook's Ad Manager — - Advertisers say system has crashed regularly since November — Social-media company says it's ‘committed’ to fixing issues
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@shiraovide, @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8 and @matthewstoller, more at Techmeme »
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Court docs show Monsanto ran a “fusion center” that monitored a Reuters journalist and encouraged negative reviews of her 2017 book on its Roundup weedkiller — Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
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@colinlecher, @kimseverson, @gmwatch, @dangillmor, @janeferguson5, @peterhimler, Boing Boing and @davidlwindt
Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
How Hacker News moderators Daniel Gackle and Scott Bell practice a personal and slow approach, engaging with users in e-mail chains that can last for years — Can a human touch make Silicon Valley's biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place? — Open-plan offices offer few pleasures …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS and AT&T strike a new carriage deal, ending a prolonged blackout of CBS programming — CBS and AT&T came to new terms on carriage of CBS stations on the telecommunications giant's DirecTV satellite service, ending a prolonged blackout of CBS programming. More to come......
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MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News, TVWeek.com, The Streamable and @benmullin
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom's Q3 revenue rose 4% YoY to $3.36B with ad revenue at its cable networks unit up 6% YoY, returning to US advertising growth for the first time since 2014 — The company, which is led by CEO Bob Bakish and has been in talks with CBS Corp. about a recombination, returned to domestic ad growth …
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The Wrap, The Wrap, @thr, @thr, Variety, @richattbd, FierceVideo, MediaPost and Viacom
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix signs multi-year film and TV deal with Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss; sources say the deal is worth $200M — David Benioff and Dan Weiss have signed a multiple-year film and TV pact with the streamer, which was bidding for the duo's services alongside Disney and Amazon.
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Deadline, The Streamable, TechCrunch, IndieWire, @snoodit, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, The Verge, The Week, @kaludiasays, The Playlist, Business Insider, Engadget, @hello_tailor, @benttravers, @charlespulliam, Observer, The Independent, The A.V. Club, Slate, Gizmodo, CNET, Digital Trends, Digital Trends, Collider, Mashable, The Verge, TVWeek.com, Consequence of Sound, NME, BGR, Variety, /Film, The Wrap and UPI, more at Techmeme »
David Segal / New York Times:
Profile of James Daunt, who saved Britain's Waterstones bookshop chain from the brink of bankruptcy and who will now try to revive Barnes & Noble as its new CEO — James Daunt fought Amazon and rescued the country's biggest bookstore chain. Now comes Chapter 2.
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@xanalter, @durgaraghunath, @dada_drummer, @kassiastclair, @lizflock, @kathryndill and @kjmcinnis1
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics — Search for what you want to hear — Google is taking the next step in making podcasts easier to find.
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The Keyword, Fast Company, @dzohrob, TechCrunch, @ashleyrcarman and @mrpaulbae, more at Techmeme »
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Some pubs including Vice Media and The Stylist Group say revenue and traffic from Apple News has risen in the past few months — Publishers including Vice Media and The Stylist Group say they've gotten traffic and, more importantly, revenue lifts from Apple News in the last three months.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
By expecting the New York Times to be the paper of resistance, something it has vowed to never be, liberals are positioned for perpetual disenchantment — The Twitter multitudes came for the New York Times Monday night, swinging caltrops and battle axes in protest over the Page One banner headline …
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The Atlantic, @realdonaldtrump, @ajentleson, @ddale8, @politicomag, @rynk, @bvivian14, MediaFile, @lizzieohreally, @owillis, @martinsfp, @jayrosen_nyu and Memex 1.1
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