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11:10 AM ET, October 27, 2020

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Lincoln Project signed with UTA to develop Lincoln Media and sources say it's weighing offers from studios, podcast networks, a path akin to Crooked Media's  —  The Lincoln Project is looking to beef up its media business after the election, sources tell Axios.
Tony Semerad / Salt Lake Tribune:
Salt Lake Tribune to move to a weekly print edition at the end of 2020 as its decade-long print, delivery, and ad partnership with the Deseret News expires  —  In a historic change, The Salt Lake Tribune will stop printing and delivering a daily edition at year's end and switch to a weekly printed newspaper delivered by mail.
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: BuzzFeed is on target to break even this year for the first time since 2014, with significantly less revenue than 2019 offset by $30M in cost cuts  —  Digital media company's revenue damaged during pandemic as layoffs, other cuts shore up bottom line
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
60 Minutes used Lesley Stahl's in-conversation responses, narration, and clips of Trump from rallies to fact check his comments in the interview aired on Sunday  —  Lesley Stahl told President Trump up front: “You know, this is ‘60 Minutes.’ And we can't put on things we can't verify."
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Emily Atkin / HEATED:
Analysis of 30 news articles on the last presidential debate's climate policy exchange shows 25 used Trump's pro-oil framing while 5 hit on the cost of inaction  —  HEATED analyzed 30 news articles about Biden's climate policy, and found that 25 adopted Trump's preferred framing.  —  1 hr
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Senate report says local journalism crisis is partly due to Facebook and Google's alleged anticompetitive behavior, like AMP, which should be policed by the FTC  —  Senate Democrats consider forcing tech giants to pay local news organizations for content  —  Some Senate Democrats are seeking …
Noam Cohen / Wired:
Wikipedia to protect its main 2020 election page with expanded measures, like stopping new editors from making edits, that it has used to stop COVID-19 misinfo  —  The encyclopedia is determined to emerge from the insanity of a pandemic and a polarizing election with its information and reputation intact.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
USAGM CEO eliminates firewall protecting VOA and affiliated newsrooms from political interference in its journalism, claiming “harm” to “US national interest”  —  A regulatory “firewall” intended to protect Voice of America and its affiliated newsrooms from political interference …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News confirms “a few positive” exposures to COVID-19, after report says its president and some top anchors were advised to quarantine due to exposure  —  Fox News Media confirmed “a few positive” exposures to the coronavirus among its employees in the wake of a New York Times report …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok partners with Shopify, allowing the latter's merchants to create TikTok ad campaigns and In-Feed video ads from the Shopify dashboard  —  TikTok is further investing in social commerce with today's announcement of a new global partnership with e-commerce platform Shopify.
 
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James Shotter / Financial Times:
Poland's ruling party, which co-opted public media, wants to reduce foreign ownership of private media, a move critics say stifles independent journalism
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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