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10:30 AM ET, October 7, 2020

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Quartz has been put up for sale by Japan's Uzabase, which expects to sell the site at a significant discount from the $86M it paid for it in 2018  —  Japan's Uzabase expects to sell the business news site for far less than the $110 million it paid in 2018
Axios:
Democrats on US House committee urge changes to antitrust law, including letting news publishers team up to negotiate vs. tech platforms who want their content  —  The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday laid out Democrats' vision of a U.S. antitrust policy built to rein in Google, Apple …
NBC News:
Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all “Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts” that represent QAnon  —  Facebook said Tuesday that it is banning all QAnon accounts from its platforms, a significant escalation over its previous action …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
With its Monday “town hall” featuring undecided voters in Miami, a Democratic-leaning county, NBC gave Biden a nationally televised, hourlong infomercial  —  NBC's Monday night event with the Democratic nominee was a town hall in name only.  —  Biden did his best to explain …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
After years harshly criticizing Big Tech's impact on the publishing industry, News Corp now has partnerships with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Snapchat, and others  —  One of the biggest news publishing companies in the world has slowly backed away from its harsh public criticism of Big Tech platforms …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Howard Stern is nearing a contract renewal with Sirius XM that would boost his pay to about $120M a year, from $80M to $100M now  —  Howard Stern, the radio shock jock who's maintained his star power in the podcasting era, is nearing a contract renewal with Sirius XM Holdings Inc …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Following McEnany's diagnosis, reporters say they are furious about WH's cavalier attitude toward their safety and criticize the timidity of WHCA's statement  —  Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's COVID-19 diagnosis has only added to journalists' frustration—and anxiety—at 1600 Penn.
Gillian Tan / Bloomberg:
Sources: Thomson Reuters is exploring the sale of its 50% stake in its Manhattan headquarters, becoming the latest media giant to rethink its property holdings  —  - Midtown Manhattan office tower co-owned with Rudin Management  — Skyscraper opened in 2001, includes outdoor billboard space
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
A fake website and a now removed Facebook page called the Globe Independent used plagiarized content from WaPo, NBC, others to post content critical of China  —  In early August, the Globe Independent launched a website filled with news stories plagiarized from NBC News, the Washington Post, and other outlets.
Matthew Moore / The Times:
Sources: British satirical show Spitting Image is not being screened in the US after NBC backed out at the last moment for fear of offending powerful people  —  They have a Donald Trump puppet, a Joe Biden puppet, even a Michelle Obama puppet.  What the Spitting Image team don't have …
Discussion: Variety and Deadline
Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land:
Google Ads introduces an Insights page, automated Performance Max campaigns, and will bring Video Action out of beta to all advertisers in the coming weeks  —  The new products and features are further indication of Google's machine learning goals.  —  Google introduced more automation features …
 
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Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Sources: AT&T is pushing ahead with an auction of DirecTV, even though first-round bids valued DirecTV at around $15.75B; AT&T bought DirecTV for $49B in 2015
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Andrew J. Campa / Los Angeles Times:
Hundreds of protestors blocked streets near LA Times HQ on Tuesday evening, over an article it published on Monday about a weekend protest by Armenian Americans
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles
Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing:
Keith Olbermann announces he's leaving ESPN once again to launch a political commentary series on YouTube, starting Wednesday at 5pm ET
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A grand jury in Texas has indicted Netflix for the film Cuties under a law that forbids lewd content of young children; Netflix says the charge is without merit
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK government report: local election turnout rose 0.37% for every 1% growth in daily newspaper circulation; an additional local title grew turnout another 1.27%
Tim Balk / New York Daily News:
Twitter says it locked Trump's account Monday evening after the account tweeted the email address of a NY Post columnist
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds a Stories feature to its Google iOS and Android app, a carousel focusing on publisher content that can include audio, full-screen video, and photos
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Bonnier to sell seven of its best-known US titles, including Saveur and Popular Science, to private equity firm North Equity as it moves to exit US media market
Yochai Benkler / Columbia Journalism Review:
Study of 55K stories, 5M tweets, and 75K Facebook posts between March 1 and Aug. 31 shows how media helped Trump and GOP discredit the voting process for some
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
The New Yorker Union says it has reached an agreement with Condé Nast to include a just cause clause in contracts, shortly before a picket had been planned