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6:30 PM ET, September 20, 2019

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Hadas Gold / CNN:
Twitter suspends account of a former Saudi royal court adviser suspected of involvement in Khashoggi murder and six accounts linked to Saudi state media  —  London (CNN Business)Twitter has suspended or removed thousands of accounts linked to governments in the Middle East …
Richard Middleton / TBI Vision:
At TV conference, Reed Hastings says Netflix has spent £400M in the UK in 2019 and plans a “big increase” next year  —  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said the streamer will spend £400m ($500m) on UK programming this year and added that there would be a “big increase” …
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Reuters:
Reuters hires Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams as its first newsroom diversity editor  —  Reuters today announced that Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams has been appointed Editor, Newsroom Diversity.  —  Reporting to Simon Robinson, Global Managing Editor, Newsroom, Adeluwoye-Adams will lead Reuters efforts …
Discussion: Press Gazette and Poynter
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh book authors say the reason they couldn't agree to terms to interview Kavanaugh was because he wanted them to lie and say he hadn't been interviewed  —  Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, the New York Times reporters behind the book “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation …
William Zheng / South China Morning Post:
Chinese state media reporters will have to pass an exam testing knowledge of President Xi's philosophy to get press cards; ~10K to take pilot exams in October  —  About 10,000 reporters and editors in Beijing are expected to take ‘pilot tests’ next month using Xuexi Qiangguo mobile app Nationwide exams …
Discussion: @zhengwei75 and The Guardian
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Viacom joins Britbox, the BBC and ITV joint venture, making Comedy Central's UK productions as well as Channel 5 shows available on the platform  —  Viacom-owned Channel 5 and Comedy Central have joined BritBox, the “best-of-British” subscription streaming service created by the BBC and ITV.
Discussion: Reuters and Broadband TV News
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Stephen Brown has been named editor-in-chief of Politico Europe  —  Stephen Brown has been appointed editor-in-chief of politics and policy news title Politico Europe.  —  The European arm of Politico was launched in 2015 as a joint venture with German publisher Axel Springer.
Ana Lomtadze / Global Editors Network:
Interview with Google News VP Richard Gingras on the algorithm change to spotlight original reporting, the difficulty of defining the term, raters, and more  —  Google's VP of News explains the wider implications of the new search algorithm.  —  Last week, Google said it had made changes …
Ann-Christine Diaz / Ad Age:
A former chief creative officer of The Martin Agency is suing Adweek, a former editor, and the anonymous Instagram account Diet Madison Avenue for defamation  —  Suit seeks $25 million; attorney says plaintiff plans to also take legal action against his former employer and parent Interpublic Group
 
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Bloomberg:
The trial of two Bloomberg journalists, along with 36 other defendants, has begun in Turkey, where they're accused of trying to undermine its economic stability
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Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund makes first grants: $5.25M to three Philadelphia recipients to support new models for local journalism
Hilary Russ / Reuters:
DAZN reaches distribution deal with Comcast, its first in North America; Xfinity Flex box users will have access to DAZN starting today
 

 
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West Bank residents, who have long complained of missing and outdated data on Google Maps, say the Israel-Hamas war has made the app even worse for navigation
 
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