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Financial Times:
Sources: Verizon is seeking potential buyers for HuffPost, as it continues to shed digital businesses from its costly acquisition of Yahoo and AOL — Verizon is sounding out potential buyers for the HuffPost website, in the latest phase of the US telecoms group's retreat from the digital media business.
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu, @janinegibson, TechCrunch, Fox Business, @rafat, @timcast, @arrington, @rafat and The Wrap
Matthew Ball:
As Hollywood continues to scale with more TV and film assets, no studio has an integrated gaming division today, which ignores a fast growing media category — With all the individual differences from player to player, the TV and film industry has had a consistent response to the challenges …
Discussion:
@ballmatthew and @ballmatthew
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN calls a threatened lawsuit from Trump lawyer Charles Harder a “desperate PR stunt”; Harder's letter cited the Lanham Act, which deals mainly with trademarks — An attorney for President Donald Trump has sent a letter to CNN that threatens to sue the AT&T-owned cable-news network …
Discussion:
@michaelglassner, @boutrousted, @rmac18, @neal_katyal, @timmarchman, @pareene, @mirandayaver, @alisonfrankel, Hollywood Reporter, @farhip, @erikwemple, @markjkings, @lexlanham, @eriqgardner, PEN America, @eriqgardner, @erikwemple, Vanity Fair, The Week, Mediaite, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Dan Levin / New York Times:
Profile of The Michigan Daily, the university's student newspaper in Ann Arbor, which has been the only printed local paper in the city for more than a decade — As more than 2,000 newspapers across the country have closed or merged, student journalists from Michigan to Arizona have stepped in to fill the void.
Discussion:
@jcstearns, @alpaul, @revericatcheson, @dpd_, @timmckayum, @rkobell, @samhoisington, @stephepburn, @benjaminsraven, @marclacey, @showusyourwork, @jswatz and @jswatz
Max Willens / Digiday:
As podcasting becomes dominated by a handful of platforms, ad automation seems inevitable given the difficulty of scaling program-specific, host-read ads — The IAB's fifth annual podcast upfront could be the last one where platforms do not dominate in the proceedings.
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Publishers like Forbes, Reuters, WSJ, and Bloomberg are growing their events businesses for sponsors and building their own event franchises to boost revenues — Trade shows, conferences and summit events are nothing new for business-to-business publishers, who have a tight grip on catering to professional audiences.
Discussion:
@rafat
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook reaches licensing deal with News Corp to feature headlines from WSJ, NY Post, and others in a coming news tab; sources: WaPo, BuzzFeed News, BI also in — News organizations including News Corp will be paid a licensing fee to supply headlines in news tab
Discussion:
@jason_kint, @bgrueskin, @dicktofel, @jimpethokoukis, @lalpert1, Engadget and Talking Biz News, more at Techmeme »
Hollywood Reporter:
Source: Quentin Tarantino declines to recut his movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, after China's regulators blocked the film's release date of Oct. 25 — The country's regulators pulled the film from the schedule a week before its release on Oct. 25. — Quentin Tarantino has no intention …
Mat Ombler / GamesIndustry.biz:
How music licensing can cause problems in the gaming industry, where developers risk having their games removed from sale due to expired licenses — Developers risk having their games removed from sale due to expired licenses — experts from music and games weigh in on the problem
Discussion:
@matombler, @gibiz, @gibiz and @naohigo
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Condé Nast Italia releases its first magazine in the US, the food and wine focused La Cucina Italiana — The recipe-focused magazine has been designed for Americans — Condé Nast, which has long taken magazines established in the U.S. and introduced them into new international markets …
Daniel Green / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with Hazel Baker, head of user-generated content newsgathering at Reuters, on deepfakes, misinformation, and verification — Ahead of the Newsrewired conference, Baker talks about the challenges posed by misinformation during breaking news events and the emergence of deepfakes
Nieman Reports:
Commenting on the limits of #MeToo journalism, Jodi Kantor says journalism isn't a fundamental solution or “a substitute ... for institutions that have failed” — In the fall of 2017 The New York Times published Jodi Kantor's and Megan Twohey's explosive investigation …