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6:50 PM ET, October 26, 2019

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Facebook:
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news  —  Testing a dedicated place for news in the US  —  Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook takes a step forward by putting money behind high-quality journalism, but must not leave small publishers behind or promote purveyors of disinformation  —  Ronald Reagan called these the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
Todd Spangler / Variety:
At an event with News Corp's Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — aiming to counter skeptics who believe the social network is a chief culprit in promulgating a flood of misinformation …
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 Stelter / CNN:
Facebook is paying some major publishers millions of dollars per year while excluding smaller local ones, who are struggling and worried about being left behind  —  New York (CNN Business)Facebook has a message for the skeptical news industry: We're here to help.
ProPublica:
Sources: John Solomon, now at Fox, worked closely with Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, sharing files and letting him watch an interview with Ukraine source  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter …
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 …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
News industry columnist Ken Doctor says he's working on Lookout, a platform for local news, set to launch in 2020 with funding from Google and Knight Foundation  —  Over the past decade here at Nieman Lab, I've reported a lot of news industry news.  Today, I'm sharing some of my own.
Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 22% of US newsroom employees live in NYC, LA, or DC; NYC has 12% of all newsroom employees; 41% of people working for digital outlets are in the Northeast  —  New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., are the financial, entertainment and political capitals of the United States …
Reuters:
AT&T says HBO Max will be available free to the 10M AT&T customers who are also US HBO subscribers; sources: AT&T to launch cheaper ad-supported tier in 2021  —  (Reuters) - In the bestselling novel “Circe” — optioned by WarnerMedia for its forthcoming HBO Max streaming service …
BBC:
Source: the Barclay brothers are looking to sell the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph; Telegraph Media Group's profit last year was £900K, down 94% YoY  —  The billionaire owners of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph are to put both titles up for sale.
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  —  Amid the hubbub of L'Affaire Ukrainienne, you could be forgiven for overlooking another story that has emerged out of Congress over the past week.
 
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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
Variety:
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Bloomberg:
Sources: DAZN, a sports streaming service owned by billionaire investor Len Blavatnik that has spent $1.3B+ on boxing deals, seeks to raise at least $500M
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Max Willens / Digiday:
With its SmartView First program, news aggregator SmartNews is offering 30 US publishers tiered revenue payouts based on their monthly page views in the app
Shannon Liao / CNN:
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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
In what she assumed was an off-the-record call, Kellyanne Conway mocked and threatened a Washington Examiner reporter for mentioning Conway's husband in a story