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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Remembering premature media projections in 2000 of the winner of the Bush-Gore race, and how media executives say they will be incredibly careful, this time — Twenty years ago this week, I begged my bosses to stop the presses so we could avoid reporting a huge story that wasn't true …
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@davidclinchnews, @michaelsocolow, @weissacre, @pastpunditry, @benmullin and @davidfolkenflik
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
TV news networks say they gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading and are prepared to push back on false claims by candidates — Networks have gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading, causing a ‘red mirage’ or ‘blue mirage’
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Nieman Lab, @dartcenter, @rasmus_kleis, @mariaramirezny, @rasmus_kleis, @rasmus_kleis, @benmullin, @asharma, @brianstelter and CNN
Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:
Q&A with Casey Newton on Spotify's need to articulate a content policy after the latest Rogan-Jones episode and its transition from infrastructure to publisher — I've been following Casey Newton's work for closely quite some time now, particularly over the past few years as he's zeroed …
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Vulture, @caseynewton, @evelyndouek, @nwquah and FullFlow
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: AT&T in talks to sell a significant minority stake in DirecTV, AT&T Now, and U-Verse pay-TV, where the buyer would run pay-TV distribution operations — - AT&T is considering selling significant minority stake in DirecTV, AT&T Now and U-Verse pay-TV operations.
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@sherman4949, New York Post, Light Reading, The Streamable, @sherman4949, @claireatki, Hollywood Reporter and Cord Cutters News
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast is in talks with Walmart to develop and distribute smart TVs, as the cable giant looks to become a dominant hub for streaming apps — Under the terms being discussed, the retail giant would promote TV sets running Comcast software and receive share of recurring revenue
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Business Insider, The Desk, Variety, The Streamable, Light Reading, @lilliannnn, @sizpatel, @anthony, @tkgore and Cord Cutters News
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Snapchat now lets creators display their subscriber counts, the first time Snapchat has given users any public-facing metric of their audience or followers — Great for brand deals — Snapchat is now allowing creators to publicize how many subscribers they have.
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Tubefilter, The Wrap, Variety and @thekenyeung, more at Techmeme »
Chris Erik Thomas / Study Hall:
Q&A with FiveThirtyEight visual journalist Jasmine Mithani on its new model that incorporates some lessons from 2016, its mascot Fivey Fox, and more — Mithani, part of the team behind FiveThirtyEight's popular election forecast, talks about education, doomscrolling, and rejected mascots.
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Rolling Stone and @kerrymflynn
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Study: YouTube's recent efforts to reduce recommendations of misinfo from fringe channels worked, but Fox News is now the most recommended for election videos — To battle false information, YouTube cut its recommendations to fringe channels and instead promoted major networks, especially Fox News.
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@jacknicas, @mhbergen, @jacknicas, @random_walker, @jessreports, @mmasnick, @oliverdarcy, @caseynewton, @diakayyali, @drewharwell and @oakmorr, more at Techmeme »
Axios:
Facebook says it will rely on election results from Reuters, the Associated Press, and six independent decision desks at major media outlets it didn't identify — Facebook said Monday it would be relying on consensus results from the National Election Pool/Edison via Reuters, the Associated Press …
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Variety, The Media Nut, Wired, CNBC and Poynter, more at Techmeme »
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter says it will use at least two sources, from among ABC News, AP, CNN, CBS News, Decision Desk HQ, Fox News, and NBC News, to call US election results
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INSIDER, Variety, @twittersupport, Wired, این …, Politico, @justinhendrix, The Daily Beast, @mmasnick, @twittersupport, @davmicrot, @larakate, @carnage4life, @judiciarygop, @sarafischer, @sarafischer and Breitbart
Emily Palmer / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT Audience editors Anna Dubenko and Jake Grovum on their social media plan for the election, balancing speed and accuracy over multiple days — Two digital experts for The Times discuss what they anticipate for a busy night and beyond. — Times Insider explains …
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@emilybell, @emilyepalmer, @annadubenko, @jgrovum and bookforum.com
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu enables Watch Party social viewing on Hulu.com for its live-streamed election coverage, provided by ABC News, the first time it's done so for a live event — Hulu is bringing its Watch Party social viewing feature to its live-streamed election news coverage, provided via its existing partnership with ABC News Live.
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The Streamable
Lucinda Southern / Adweek:
WaPo launches Signal, a first-party tool for ad buyers that combines consumption data with contextual ad targeting ability to ensure more accurate ad delivery — New in-house tool Signal taps first-party data for the publisher's network — The Washington Post has developed …
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@jarroddicker and @dcnorg
Brian Stelter / CNN:
A dozen beat reporters who covered Trump and Biden for TV networks and websites describe the surreal experience of covering the campaigns during a pandemic — New York (CNN Business)Talking to beat reporters who spent months covering the campaigns of President Donald Trump …
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