Mediagazer: Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, available in the US and elsewhere (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

1:40 PM ET, November 19, 2019

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Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC:

Disney says there's no indication of a Disney+ security breach, in response to reports of thousands of users' accounts being hijacked and sold online for $3-$11 — - Thousands of Disney+ user accounts have been stolen by hackers and put up for sale on the dark web, according to multiple reports.

Discussion: ZDNet, BBC, KIFI-TV, FOX31 Denver, @kaspersky and New York Post

Matt Novak / Gizmodo:

Facebook exec defends Breitbart on Facebook News, saying Breitbart is not being paid and balances out “far left” outlets, but it's unclear which ones she meant — Facebook recently announced that white supremacist propaganda site Breitbart would be considered a “high quality” …

Discussion: @ranimolla, Vox, @teddyschleifer, @ericboehlert, @oliverdarcy, @bgrueskin and Memex 1.1

Ted Johnson / Deadline:

DOJ antitrust head Makan Delrahim says the DOJ will move to end the 1940s Paramount consent decrees, which limit major distributors' control over theater chains — The Justice Department will ask a federal court to eliminate the Paramount consent decrees, the 71-year-old restrictions …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google announces Your News Update, an Assistant-powered audio feature that chooses stories based on interests, location, and more, available first in the US — It plays from a variety of sources instead of just the few you hand-pick — Google is rolling out a new service for Google Assistant that it's calling “Your News Update.”

Discussion: TechCrunch and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

John Ourand / The Business Journals:

Report: Trump is in negotiations with Fox to buy a Super Bowl ad; 30-second spots are reportedly selling for $5.6M — It appears likely that President Trump's re-election campaign will buy an ad during February's Super Bowl telecast, marking what would be the first time in recent memory …

Discussion: @ourand_sbj, Awful Announcing, @ccadelago, @tim_bays and New York Post

CNN:

Current and former The Hill employees: owner Jimmy Finkelstein tells editors when Trump coverage too harsh, staff in “revolt” over handling of John Solomon saga — New York (CNN Business)James “Jimmy” Finkelstein, the owner of The Hill newspaper, is not a widely known media executive …

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Michael Calderone / Politico:
The Hill says it's reviewing, annotating, and when appropriate, correcting former columnist John Solomon's opinion pieces referenced in the impeachment inquiry

Discussion: @erikwemple, Mediaite, KIFI-TV, Poynter, @zac_petkanas, @erikwemple, @jayrosen_nyu, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

Max Willens / Digiday:

Reuters Connect, the B2B content marketplace for news publishers, adds seven national news agencies, including Australia's AAP and Argentina's LANA — With news publishers' video needs growing all the time, Reuters is hoping to build itself into a marketplace that can serve all of them.

Discussion: Reuters

NBC News:

Emails show that Stephen Miller chose to have a 2015 article he fed Breitbart published under a Breitbart byline, disguising an opinion article as editorial — The emails offer a window into just how closely Miller coordinated with Breitbart, a publication that backed President Donald Trump early in his campaign.

Discussion: Southern Poverty Law Center, @oneunderscore__, @slpng_giants, @hmaesq, The Atlantic, MSNBC, @heerjeet, @andybcampbell, @oneunderscore__ and New York Times

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, available in the US and elsewhere — Spotify is taking the personalization technology that powers its music playlists, like Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, and turning it to podcasts.

Discussion: The Verge, Spotify, Quartz and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

Richard Vega / The Streamable:

Amazon unveils $34.99 Fire TV Blaster, a new infrared device that brings more TV voice commands for those with a Fire TV and Echo — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links. — Amazon today announced their new Fire TV Blaster …

Discussion: TechCrunch, GeekWire, CNBC and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Patreon says it has paid out $1B+ to creators since its 2013 launch, up from $500M in Q4 2018, has surpassed 4M members, and plans on expanding to Europe — Membership services startup Patreon has paid out over $1 billion to creators since its launch in 2013, the company announced Tuesday.

BBC:

Sweden drops investigation into a rape allegation made against Julian Assange in 2010, citing weakened evidence due to time elapsed since the events in question — Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010.

Discussion: Ars Technica, Associated Press, Washington Post and New York Times

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Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Sources: the DNC disapproves of Politico's choice of moderator for next month's Democratic debate, Tim Alberta, in part because of past work for National Review

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Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
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Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:
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Jasper Jackson / New Statesman:
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William Feuer / CNBC:
Evan Spiegel says Snapchat has a team that fact checks all political advertising on the platform, in stark contrast to Facebook

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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Epstein's death was an injustice, but the press can hold him and alleged enablers to account, as Emily Maitlis showed in her outstanding Prince Andrew interview

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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times' TV show, The Weekly, is now available for US subscribers via its website, five months after launching on FX and Hulu

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Molly Blackall / The Guardian:
In proposals to Ofcom, BBC seeks to cut the news shown on its children's channel from 85 to 35 hours per year, scrapping the 50-year-old afternoon news segment

Discussion: @sarah_donaldson, @proftimob, @francesleach_, @juleslhoward and @dragz

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Interview with TV host and film producer Soledad O'Brien on her critiques of journalism in the Trump era, which she often shares to her 1.1M Twitter followers

Discussion: @jeremymbarr, @laurajmg, @frankconniff, @brianstelter, @djrothkopf, Raw Story and WPIX 11 New York

Hadas Gold / CNN:
While impartiality rules prevent a UK television equivalent to Fox News, Boris Johnson's close ties with The Telegraph means he can always rely on its support

Discussion: @lsenews

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet says Trump puts journalists' “lives at risk” when he subjects them to personal attacks and calls them names

Knight Foundation:
Gallup/Knight study: 86% of Americans believe people should have access to local news, but only 1 in 5 subscribe or donate to local news organizations

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions

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