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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Moderating his second presidential debate, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace struggled to keep the event coherent, pleading at times with Trump to let Biden speak — On the eve of Tuesday night's presidential debate, Chris Wallace of Fox News declared his goal as the evening's moderator: “My job is to be as invisible as possible.”
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Right-wing news sources and the WH press secretary amplified a conspiracy theory about an electronic earpiece for Biden, hours before the presidential debate — A conspiracy theory that Joe Biden would wear an electronic device in his ear during the first presidential debate went wildly viral Tuesday …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Failing some radical reform in the debate format that gives moderators more power, there's no reason for the next two debates to take place as scheduled — Chris Wallace wanted to be “invisible” as the moderator of the first presidential debate. “If I've done my job right,” …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Axios is on target to make a profit in 2020, with ~$58M in revenue, up 30%+ YoY, due to sponsored-newsletter business that contributes 50%+ of revenue — Three-year-old media company avoids staff reductions and is on pace to be profitable in 2020 — “Smart brevity” has been good for business at Axios.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sen. Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pull out of New Yorker Festival in solidarity with The New Yorker Union, which is planing a digital picket line — The two standard bearers of the left said they would skip the annual event in solidarity with The New Yorker Union, which plans a digital picket line.
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@maxwelltani, @jennyvrentas, @cullend, @bridgetgillard, @mollyhc and @leavittalone
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
YouTube TV is dropping all Fox regional sports networks starting Oct. 1; the networks will now only be available for streaming on Hulu Live TV and AT&T TV Now — Just following the end of baseball season, YouTube TV is about to lose 21 Fox Regional Sports Networks.
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Cord Cutters News, MediaPost, Engadget and Variety
Reuters:
Reuters launches The Great Reboot, a vertical to cover the transformation of workplaces due to COVID-19 — Reuters announced today the launch of a new editorial vertical on the transformation and reimagining of the workplace that is being accelerated around the world by COVID-19.
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Talking Biz News
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Condé Nast says it will open a global tech center in Bangalore to design and build digital content platforms for its brands including GQ and Vogue — - Center to build digital platforms for brands like Vogue and GQ — Magazine publisher plans to hire over 300 people by end-2021
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@saritharai and @livefromalounge
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitch launches Soundtrack by Twitch, which lets creators add licensed music to streams from an initial lineup of partners including SoundCloud — Twitch today is introducing a new tool, Soundtrack by Twitch, that will allows it creators to add licensed music within their streams.
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Music Business Worldwide, The Verge and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney is laying off 28,000 employees, due to prolonged closures of its California theme parks and limited attendance at open parks — Prolonged closures at Disney's California-based theme parks and limited attendance at its open parks has forced the company to lay off 28,000 employees across its parks …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Update on The Daily Memphian and Ken Doctor's Lookout Local: the Memphian has 13,900 subscribers paying $9.25/month average, Lookout Local to debut mid-November — Two full-scale newspaper launches in digital format marked milestones last week as they test whether going big can challenge a shrinking legacy print title.
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Talking Biz News, @raju, @rickedmonds, @kodacohen, @poynter and @poynter
Bloomberg:
With just an estimated 1.4M users in Africa, Netflix is testing cheaper, mobile-only subscriptions and commissioning local shows to attract new subscribers — - U.S. giant is still a relatively small player on continent — Rise of 4G boosts streaming services but economies are shaky
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