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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
How rumors about Biden and Ukraine began with a dark-money group and a Peter Schweizer book before hitting Fox News, mirroring the path of Clinton Cash theories — How a conservative dark-money group that targeted Hillary Clinton in 2016 spread the discredited story that may lead to Donald Trump's impeachment.
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@stuartpstevens, @kgvseb, @pastpunditry and Foreign Policy
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
John Solomon, a former columnist at The Hill whose work helped push Ukraine-related conspiracies and was mentioned in whistleblower complaint, joins Fox News — For months, opinion columnist John Solomon has played a central role in stoking right-wing conspiracies about Ukraine's role …
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Washington Examiner, @mikebrestdc, @jkbjournalist, @maxwelltani and Mediaite
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Fox and Dish reach a new carriage deal, ending a blackout that began Sept. 26 and caused Thursday Night Football to be pulled from NFL Network on Oct. 3 — Stations, cable nets restored after being dropped Sept. 26 — Fox Corp. said it has reached a new carriage agreement with Dish …
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MediaPost, Multichannel News, The Streamable and Variety
Li Yuan / New York Times:
How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people — Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.
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@liyuan6, @nytimesbusiness, @motokorich, @nytimes, @nkfinney, @liyuan6, @jianglilily, @liyuan6, @franklangfitt and @liyuan6, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Inside Disney Streaming Services, the “special forces of the streaming industry”, which came out of a BAMTech acquisition and powers ESPN+ and upcoming Disney+ — It's early September, just two months before the Nov. 12 go-live date for Disney Plus.
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@mdudas
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Wall Street Journal:
Disney bans Netflix ads on most of its TV networks; it had initially issued a blanket ban on ads from any streamers, but reversed course for all but Netflix
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Amanda Hess / New York Times:
Profile of Rachel Maddow, as she publishes her second book, Blowout, and as her MSNBC show draws a strong audience, riveted by presidential drama — How the MSNBC host staked her show on Trump — and won the largest and most obsessive audience of her career. — Rachel Maddow was trying to get to work.
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
First excerpt from Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill describes how private investigators working for Harvey Weinstein surveilled Farrow and NYT's Jodi Kantor — How two operatives tasked with surveilling reporters became embroiled in an international plot to suppress sexual-assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
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Variety, The Daily Beast, @ronanfarrow, @josephfcox, @seanlavery, @michaelluo, @razhael, @rohded, @dabeard, @rohded, @will_bunch and @brianstelter
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A review of results for grantees of the Community Listening and Engagement Fund finds nearly all outlets reported more engagement, most didn't see more revenue — “Newsrooms generally reported increased levels of engagement and higher-quality conversations with audiences.
BBC:
Ofcom says Naga Munchetty did not breach its rules around impartiality, criticizes BBC's “lack of transparency” around the original ruling — Media watchdog Ofcom has said it has “serious concerns around the transparency of the BBC's complaints process” following its handling of the Naga Munchetty case.
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Press Gazette
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Interview with David Muir of World News Tonight, now one of ABC's most-watched programs, on reaching people via Instagram or Hulu as well as gaining TV viewers — Here's some news David Muir probably won't deliver on ABC: In recent months, his “World News Tonight” has become …
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Interview with the Daily Mail Editor Geordie Greig on changing tack on Brexit, overtaking Murdoch's The Sun, his first year since replacing Paul Dacre, and more — There is one thing that a journalist can count on, said a character in Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel Scoop: “popularity”.
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Press Gazette, @greenslader, @ppls2ndref, @henrymance, @kadhimshubber, @miketomillar, @financialtimes and @barneyfarmer
Deadspin:
Documents and interviews show TheMaven's plans for Sports Illustrated: building “team communities”, or content farms, run by third parties using low-paid labor — Now that Sports Illustrated's three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven …
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The Boston Globe, @byparkercotton, @andybcampbell, @david_j_roth, @matthewjbrown, @daviddavidwoods, @kerrymflynn, @craigmeyerpg, @voiceofthestar, @yourmandevine, @jasoncfry, @mikefinger, Ad Age, @willgravesap, @mattdpearce, @jacobbogage, @thrasherxy, @jayrosen_nyu, @jbenton, @bradheath, @vermontgmg, @karenkho, @futbolintellect, @litherland, @tomgara, @jscros, @heroinebook, @travisyost, @lshontz, @edgeofsports, @fortydeucetwits, @simonowens, @jacquib, @renan, @wolfdurchholz, @mattdpearce, @timlemketweets, @renan, @craigcalcaterra, @jeremypgordon, @uniwatch, @msilich2, @megalodork, @sam_dykstra, @jadubin5, @granteb, @dudleydowriteal, @megalodork, @kbui1, @simonowens, @slmandel, @david_j_roth, @eriqgardner, @dorothy4nabj and The Nation
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