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9:30 AM ET, October 2, 2020

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 Top News: 
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sources: Fox News agreed to pay a former assistant of Kimberly Guilfoyle more than $4M to settle a complaint about Guilfoyle's sexually inappropriate behavior  —  As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll …
Liz Wolfe / Reason:
NYT, which faced staff unrest and an editor's exit after running Sen. Cotton's op-ed on US protests, posted an op-ed praising China's crackdown on HK's protests  —  “The West tends to glorify” pro-democracy protesters “as defenders of Hong Kong's freedoms, but they have done great harm …
Jack Stubbs / Reuters:
Sources: Russia's IRA is running a news site on US politics, reposting conservative content and paying US freelancers to write on politically sensitive issues  —  LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet …
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Sarah Coble / Infosecurity Magazine:
FBI and CISA say foreign intelligence may use online journals, including “pseudo-academic” ones, to sow discord in the runup to the 2020 election  —  Americans were warned today that online journals may be used to spread lies and sow social discord in the buildup to the 2020 presidential election.
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InPublishing:
UK's Independent is launching Independent en Español, a Spanish-language website aimed at the US market, its biggest, starting with translated articles  —  The Independent this week announced the launch of Independent en Español, a new website created to serve the Hispanic audience …
Discussion: @raju
Aarian Marshall / Wired:
Library checkouts of ebooks are up 52% YoY since March as libraries pay an average of $40 per copy due to publisher restrictions limiting library lending  —  Checkouts of digital books from a popular service are up 52 percent since March.  Publishers say their easy availability hurts sales.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil  —  Google will pay publishers more than $1 billion over the next three years to create and curate high-quality journalism for a new set …
The GroundTruth Project:
A coalition representing 3,000+ US newsrooms is pushing a way to support local journalism with tax credits for subscriptions or donations to nonprofit newsrooms  —  A coalition representing more than 3,000 local newsrooms today took the unusual step of backing a plan for the government …
Irving Washington / Online News Association:
Online News Association, OpenNews, and the Maynard Institute announce the Vision25 initiative to build anti-racist and collaborative newsrooms  —  Today, we're announcing Vision25: Building Racial Equity in Newsrooms, a catalyst in a social change movement that seeks to build journalistic institutions …
Charlie Beckett / Polis:
Sweden's national radio broadcaster is pairing journalists' pre-publication ratings of news stories with an algorithm to improve the personalization for users  —  How can we produce more relevant news stories and at the same time promote the values of outstanding public service journalism?
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Portland tech news site Digital Trends has laid off at least 13 editorial staffers, including Lisa Marie Segarra, Meira Gebel, and Mathew Katz  —  Portland technology news site Digital Trends has laid off at least 13 editorial staffers.  —  Among those laid off was Lisa Marie Segarra …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
In an interview on Wednesday, Chris Wallace conceded he was initially reluctant to step in during the Trump-Biden debate, saying he doesn't favor muting mics
 
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC is instituting inclusion standards, overseen by Executive VP Simran Sethi, to increase inclusion of underrepresented groups on screen and behind the screen
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Marc Rosen, EVP of entertainment for Authentic Brands Group, says Sports Illustrated is profitable, due in large part to 15 active licensing deals for the brand
Freya Drohan / Daily Front Row:
Condé Nast hires its first-ever chief of diversity and inclusion officer, Yashica Olden, and reverses the pay cuts it implemented in April
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Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:
A look at Troy Young's tenure at Hearst, his clashes with editors and staff, initial success with digital profits, and the company's status since his departure
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In letter to Congress, directors and Hollywood trade bodies say 69% of small and mid-sized theater companies will go bankrupt or shutter without government help
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Questions have arisen before about the reporting of NYT's Rukmini Callimachi, whose work faces review after charges against a character in her Caliphate podcast
 

 
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Intel scraps forecast of selling $500M+ worth of Gaudi AI accelerator chips in 2024, with CEO Pat Gelsinger citing chip transition and slower uptake to software

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account's username had 52+ characters

 
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