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Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:
Content recommendation company Taboola has bought rival Outbrain for $250M in cash and 30% equity; Taboola says it will hit $1B in revenue in 2019 — Outbrain and Taboola — the Ross and Rachel “will they, won't they” online advertising story of our times — could finally have its happy ending.
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
EU's top court rules that an individual country can order Facebook to take down defamatory content and restrict global access to that material — Comments posted on the social network about an Austrian politician became a battle over the reach of European defamation laws on the internet.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TheMaven, Sports Illustrated's new operator, is planning to lay off 40+ employees and hire as many as 200 contract workers in the coming months — Employees are expected to receive notice this week that their jobs are being cut — TheMaven Inc., which earlier this year licensed …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Fire TV has no deal yet to carry Disney+ because Amazon is pushing for the right to sell a percentage of the ad inventory on other Disney apps — Disney resists Amazon push for some of the ad revenue from entertainment giant's apps — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .07% and Walt Disney Co. DIS -.69% …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
McClatchy announces the Education Lab, a four-person team funded by nonprofits to cover education in the San Joaquin Valley out of the bureau of The Fresno Bee — In a bid to keep subscriber growth going, McClatchy is turning to issues-based reporting, aided by community nonprofits.
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Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News:
American Federation of Musicians launches #BandTogether campaign, demanding that major studios improve payouts for musicians' work on streaming content — For those planning to meet Disney CEO Bob Iger at his book signing this evening (October 1st) in Glendale, CA, here's a pro tip: bring some earplugs.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook effectively allows lies in political ads because it considers them to be expressions of opinion and will not send them to fact-checkers for review — This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week.
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Man is sentenced to four months in prison for threatening to kill Boston Globe workers because the paper coordinated editorials condemning Trump's press attacks — BOSTON (Reuters) - A California man was sentenced on Wednesday to four months in prison for threatening to kill employees …
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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Top media and human rights figures gathered Wednesday for a memorial service in Istanbul for Jamal Khashoggi on the first anniversary of his death — ISTANBUL — The memorial service for Jamal Khashoggi was held in the shadow of the Saudi Consulate on Wednesday, on the first anniversary of his death …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media agrees to acquire Refinery29 in a deal expected to close before the end of 2019; source: Vice is issuing mostly stock to Refinery29's shareholders — After months of talks, Vice Media sealed an agreement to acquire Refinery29, a bet by the two digital-centric media companies …
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The Daily Beast:
The Hill's John Solomon emailed a story he wrote on Ukraine to Rudy Giuliani's allies pre-publication; the email was part of packet given to Congress Wednesday — The email was then included in part of a misinformation dossier that the State Department Inspector General delivered to Congress.
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Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz / Chicago Tribune:
Starbucks is testing free digital access to some news sites, including WSJ and USA Today, via its in-store Wi-Fi, after ending print newspaper sales last month — After ceasing sales of print newspapers, Starbucks announced Tuesday that it will offer customers free digital access to several newspapers for a limited time.
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