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5:55 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
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.
Jason Schott / Fox Business:
Roku study finds 2M people have moved from traditional pay TV to streaming in 2019 and predicts up to 60M will exclusively use streaming in the next five years  —  Television viewing has gradually expanded into streaming, and a new study from Roku makes a dramatic prediction about how people will consume video in the years to come.
Discussion: @whatthebit and @raju
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 …
BBC:
UN report discusses Iran's harassment and persecution of BBC Persian journalists and their families after BBC's formal complaint to UNHRC in February  —  In a report presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today (19 September 2019), UN assistant secretary-general Andrew Gilmour …
Discussion: @bbcnewspr and Press Gazette
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
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources: Tinder will release a six-episode choose-your-own-adventure series in October and intends to use viewers' choices to make matches  —  Popular dating app Tinder is set to release a choose-your-own-adventure-style original series in early October, marking its first outing …
 
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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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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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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

David Cassel / The New Stack:
An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more
 
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