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Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Shari Redstone is exploring a plan to launch a Fox News competitor and has spoken with current and former Fox News personalities, including Megyn Kelly — The mogul, who has spoken with former Fox News star Megyn Kelly, may look to rebrand an existing Viacom linear channel to create a conservative-leaning news network.
The Guardian:
Bookstores in Australia are selling Catch and Kill despite Dylan Howard's prior threats to include them in a defamation lawsuit — One online distributor has withdrawn the #MeToo memoir, but other stores have stocked it, and the publisher insists it will not be withdrawn
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Ronan Farrow alleges that Dylan Howard, then-EIC of National Enquirer, ordered a staff member to shred sensitive Trump-related documents in early November 2016
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Jackie Strause / Hollywood Reporter:
In a memo to staff, NBC News president pushes back against Catch and Kill, says “there is no evidence of any reports of Lauer's misconduct before his firing”
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BuzzFeed News:
As Facebook says politicians can lie in ads, so far in October it has banned 160+ ads from Trump, Biden, Warren, Sanders, Steyer for profanity and fake buttons — Last week, Facebook announced that it would allow political candidates to lie in ads posted to its platform …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook should ban political ads and let candidates communicate via their pages since it doesn't need the money and doesn't want to police political speech
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August Graham / Independent.ie:
UK's Telegraph Media Group reports a 61%+ fall in operating profits YoY to £8.1M in 2018 even as subscription revenue rose 10% YoY, making up 54% of revenue — Telegraph Media Group revenues fell by 2.7% last year to £278.1 million. — The owner of the Daily Telegraph …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Media president says Shepard Smith's timeslot will be filled next year, with current news anchors doing stints to replace him in the meantime — Shepard Smith has left the Fox News building, but his hour will remain staffed by employees from the network' news division.
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New York Times:
How Trump is cajoling and bullying his closest media ally Fox News as a total-loyalty litmus test, even as impeachment ups the stakes
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
On The Vergecast, Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour says they are exploring “a form of ephemerality” to avoid the risk of old stigmatizing tweets resurfacing — “These are some of the biggest reasons why people don't tweet. Which is why we actually take this very seriously."
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Sky launches “Sky News: Brexit Free” channel on TV and YouTube in response to a study that found that 70% of news-avoiding Brits were doing so because of Brexit — Sky News is launching a “pop-up channel” free from any mention of Brexit. — Sky News: Brexit Free will go live …
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter to restrict user interactions with world leaders' tweets that violate its rules, will let users quote-tweet, but not retweet, like, reply, or share — Twitter said it will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Meredith plans a quarterly lifestyle mag with hosts of Property Brothers for January, after the success of a similar mag it made with Chip and Joanna Gaines — Publisher to launch quarterly publication featuring HGTV's ‘Property Brothers,’ years after creating Magnolia Journal with Chip and Joanna Gaines
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Kelsey Sutton / Adweek:
Crackle parent company CSS Entertainment forms Landmark Studio Group, which will create content to attract viewers to Crackle and its other AVOD services — Landmark Studio Group will develop TV and films — Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (CSS Entertainment) …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
The most recent version of Apple's Safari browser prevents sites from detecting when users are using private browsing, following in Chrome's footsteps — Publishers have discovered a new, Apple-shaped hole in their metered paywalls. — The most recent version of Apple's Safari browser …
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
eMarketer: Google will take 37.2%, or $48.05B, of all US digital ad spend this year, down from 38.2% in 2018, while Amazon will take 8.8%, up from 6.8% in 2018 — Google dominates the search ad market today, but eMarketer's latest forecast shows that within the next two years, Google's revenue share will fall and Amazon's will rise.
New York Times:
Conference attendees at a Trump resort in Miami were shown a video of a fake Trump killing news media and political opponents in a church — WASHINGTON — A video depicting a macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
If Trump doesn't condone violence against journalists, he should stop inspiring it
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