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9:40 PM ET, October 13, 2019

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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News says Shepard Smith is stepping down from his longtime role as chief news anchor and leaving the network  —  In a shocking turn of events that stunned the media industry, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith announced his departure from the network after more than 23 years.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Source: Shepard Smith asked Fox News management in September to let him out of his contract; tensions with pro-Trump opinion shows were the breaking point  —  New York (CNN Buiness)Last month Shep Smith decided that he had simply had enough.  —  With President Trump actively distorting …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
With Shepard Smith gone, Fox News will have less of a balance to point to when asked to defend its primetime excesses, but its bottom line will be just fine
Brian Fung / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy of exempting ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking by running a Facebook ad with a clear falsehood  —  Zuckerberg says legal battles during a Warren presidency would ‘suck’  —  (CNN)A fresh series of Facebook ads this week …
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
A newspaper in Carroll, Iowa brought down a cop for having inappropriate relationships with teen girls, but his failed lawsuit put the paper in financial peril  —  It started, like many newspaper investigations, with a tip.  —  The Carroll Times Herald in the small town of Carroll, Iowa …
Discussion: The Gazette and @dancow
Columbia Journalism Review:
Joe Lockhart, WH press secretary for Clinton, on how the Clinton impeachment showed press is non-partisan, why media should air Trump with a delay to fact-check  —  Joe Lockhart was named White House press secretary three days before the House voted to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998.
Discussion: @cjr
Rachel Dodes / Wall Street Journal:
Companion podcasts like Chernobyl's allow networks to use their access to creators, writers, and actors to give behind-the-scenes insights and attract viewers  —  After fans gobbled up ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Chernobyl’ podcasts, networks and streaming services have begun producing companion audio programs to boost TV viewer loyalty
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
After turning off its ad inventory on the open exchange post-GDPR, FT says private deals now account for 70% of overall programmatic revenue, up from 4% in 2017  —  While for many publishers, the General Data Protection Regulation represented an inconvenient, potential threat to programmatic ad revenues …
BuzzFeed News:
Sources: in early 2018, Eddy Cue and Morgan Wandell, Apple's international TV lead, asked some Apple TV+ show creators to avoid portraying China in a poor light  —  We thought trade would bring Western values to China.  Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.
 
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Profile of PewDiePie covering his relationships with YouTube and mainstream media, as he tries to shed his reputation as a far-right sympathizer
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
In email, G/O's editorial director tells staff he sees no reason for them to cover Splinter's shutdown and that any post about it will need his approval