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8:25 AM ET, October 28, 2019

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Zuckerberg cited a need for diversity of views when asked about Breitbart's presence in Facebook News, but also said News is only for high-quality, curated news  —  On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism, fueling the launch of a new dedicated news tab on its platform.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBCUniversal says it would release ex-NBC News staffers who believe they were sexually harassed from NDAs, in a statement read by Maddow before Farrow interview  —  NBCUniversal said Friday night it would release former NBC News staffers who believe they were sexually harassed from confidentiality …
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
WaPo drew backlash for its digital headline on an obit of ISIS's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling him an “austere religious scholar”; the headline has been changed  —  The Washington Post changed the headline on its obituary for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after initially calling him an …
Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute: how Rappler, Daily Maverick, and The Quint are retreating from engaging audiences at-scale via social media to build stronger communities  —  Dramatic shifts in the media landscape over the past two decades — including the advent of social media, the rise of participatory audiences …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Trump's South Lawn press gaggles, of which there have been 75, allow him to grab the spotlight while marginalizing the press  —  A great racket rises, like a symphony of a thousand hedge trimmers, from the South Lawn of the White House.  A shambling pack of men and women …
Discussion: The Hill
Spotify:
Spotify beats Q3 expectations with premium subscribers rising 31% YoY to 113M, MAUs growing 30% YoY to 248M, on revenue of €1.73B, up 28% YoY  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) today reported financial results for the third fiscal quarter of 2019 ending September 30, 2019.
Fred Nicolaus / Business of Home:
Profile of Food52, a media and ecommerce platform majority-owned by The Chernin Group that began as a recipe blog and now sells a wide range of home products  —  Summer is wedding season, but summer's over.  This autumn, it's media companies that are getting married.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
AT&T says it will sell its majority stake in Central European Media Enterprises to Czech investment firm PPF Group for $1.1B in cash, shedding $575M in debt  —  AT&T has struck a deal to sell its majority stake in Central European Media Enterprises for $1.1 billion as part …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
RAJAR: podcasts now reach 8.4M listeners in the UK, up from 6M in 2018, with 7.4M people listening to the BBC online or through apps  —  LBC's audience has grown by almost 500,000 people in the past year to reach 2.6m, the highest weekly reach in the station's 46-year history.
 
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Deanna Ting / Digiday:
In Q3, Snapchat says total daily time spent on Discover increased by 40% YoY and 100+ Discover channels saw a monthly audience of more than 10M viewers
Daniel Tovrov / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Newsweek's grim condition: journalists are ranked by page views and expected to write four stories a day as the company struggles to pay its bills
Matt Zoller Seitz / Vulture:
Movie theater owners complain that Disney is now making 20th Century Fox classics unavailable for reruns, like it does with Disney titles
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Facebook updated fact-checking guidelines in August to include ads, but some fact checkers say they learned about the change only from Zuckerberg's testimony
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Variety:
France-based Banijay Group to buy Endemol Shine for $2.2B from Disney and Apollo Global Management, creating world's largest non-US TV producer and distributor
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Quinta Jurecic / Lawfare:
Conservative site RedState's decision to publish an explicit photograph of Democratic Rep. Katie Hill has crossed an ugly line into nonconsensual pornography