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1:05 PM ET, October 17, 2019

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
The Los Angeles Times reached a tentative agreement with the guild that represents ~475 newsroom employees; the deal could provide immediate pay raises of 5%+  —  The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday reached a tentative labor agreement with the guild that represents about 475 members of its newsroom …
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
UK publisher Reach launches Mantis, a tool that detects whether a story is brand safe and flags articles that have been blocked by keyword blacklists  —  The Daily Mirror's parent company Reach wants to drastically reduce how much ad inventory and revenue is blocked by lengthy keyword blacklists used …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q3 revenue of $5.25B, up 31% YoY, 158M paid subs globally, up 21% YoY, as net adds increase to 6.8M, up 12% YoY but below 7M company forecast  —  - Shares of Netflix surged after the company reported better-than-expected earnings results for the third quarter.
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David Cohen / Adweek:
Snapchat says it is testing dynamic ads that let brands automatically create ads in real time based on their own product catalogs  —  Several design templates are available for the format  —  Snapchat will conduct an open beta-test of dynamic ads that enable brands to automatically create ads …
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Elida Moreno / Reuters:
Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca is suing Netflix for its film on the Panama Papers scandal, alleging defamation and seeking to stop its release  —  PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has filed a lawsuit against Netflix Inc …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How the Charleston Gazette-Mail overcame bankruptcy, layoffs, and management changes to double digital subscriptions, growing to 4,341, in a year  —  In the fall of 2018, the new publisher of the Charleston Gazette-Mail sat some of his staff down at a conference room table.
Aminda Marques / Miami Herald:
Miami Herald says it plans to raise $1.5M in three years to add five staff to its investigative team as part of its Investigative Journalism Fund  —  For more than a year, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown sifted through tens of thousands of pages of FBI and court records, lawsuits, and witness depositions.
Discussion: @miamiherald and Miami Herald
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Sources: USA Today's print version likely will wind down after Gannett-GateHouse merger; USA Today publisher, however, says no plans exist to end print edition  —  After a nearly 40-year run, USA Today and its digital sites are about to undergo a major restructuring that will include building …
Wall Street Journal:
Analysis of 168,907 tweets at Daryl Morey following his Oct. 4 pro-HK tweet: ~50% came from accounts with 0-13 followers, 4,855 users had never tweeted  —  'This wasn't primarily a bot swarm.  It was a troll mob.' After his tweet supporting Hong Kong's protesters, the Houston Rockets' general manager …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Shonda Rhimes announces a three-year deal with iHeartMedia to produce original podcasts for the iHeartPodcast Network, launches new division Shondaland Audio  —  Hit-making TV writer and producer Shonda Rhimes is jumping into the podcast game in a much bigger way.
 
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Joshua Hammer / New York Times:
Profile of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, who is facing a cumulative sentence of over 63 years in prison if convicted of criminal and civil “cyberlibel” charges
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
As pubs like Morning Brew and Axios focus on newsletter reengagement campaigns to get back dormant subscribers, some, like WSJ, say it is not worth the effort
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Investigation: ad agency Ads Inc. ran a subscription-based Facebook scam whereby users rented their accounts to Ads Inc., which has run $50M in ads since 2016
Joe Otterson / Variety:
Mike Isaac's book, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, will be the basis for a Showtime series by Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien
Hollywood Reporter:
Inside's Apple steep learning curve with TV+ and Hollywood, as sources say the company already well outspent its projected $1B annual content budget
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter to restrict user interactions with world leaders' tweets that it deems violate its rules, letting users quote-tweet, but not retweet, like, reply, share
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts Phi-3 Mini, a small 3.8B-parameter model about as capable as GPT-3.5, and plans Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium models with 7B and 14B parameters
 
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