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7:55 AM ET, November 5, 2021

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Julia Black / Insider:
Several women describe humiliating and frightening sexual experiences with Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy; two say they were filmed without advance permission  —  In the summer of 2020, Madison sent Barstool Sports' founder, Dave Portnoy, a direct message on Instagram complimenting his famous “one bite” pizza reviews.
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
Barstool Sports' founder Dave Portnoy denies sexual misconduct allegations and claims Insider targeted him with a “hit piece”; Insider stands by its reporting  —  Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy denied sexual misconduct allegations published by Insider on Thursday …
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
CNN ran a story on the cost of milk with claims that didn't add up, and two staffers reacted to criticism of the segment by lashing out at critics on Twitter  —  I didn't plan on writing about milk today, but... here we are.  —  But first, let's travel back to the year 2010.
Alice Driver / @reporterdriver:
A freelancer accuses NYT of killing her op-ed critical of Tyson Food's COVID-19 safety measures in March, only to publish a positive story on Thursday  —  In January 2021, I signed a contract @nytimes to publish an oped about how Tyson needed to vaccinate meat processing workers. After I informed Tyson of the oped (it had been fact-checked, translated into Spanish & the photos edited) it was suddenly killed. Nice PR story today. https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Moonbug Entertainment, owner of YouTube channel CoComelon, agrees to be acquired by a company led by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs; sources value the deal at ~$3B  —  - Ex-Disney executives Mayer, Staggs buy Moonbug Entertainment  — Company supplies children's programming on YouTube, Netflix
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Andrew Fedorov / Off the Record:
Frances Haugen's PR firm says an international Facebook Papers consortium is coming; non-Western outlets were excluded from the original consortium  —  The group of news outlets sharing access to a whistleblower's trove of documents shut down their Slack a day after their stories published …
Shraddha Chakradhar / Nieman Lab:
Analysis of 62K pieces of content in Q1 for 30 news outlets: all 14 print papers didn't reach gender parity in bylines, with LAT and AJC at the bottom  —  Men tended to report more than women, and overwhelmingly so at the wire outlets.  The exceptions to this trend were CNN.com, HuffPost, and Vox.
Discussion: @spj_tweets and Digiday
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox's Blockchain Creative Labs will introduce more NFTs and digital collectibles for shows and franchises in the coming months  —  Fox plans to double down on its investments in blockchain technology by introducing more NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and digital collectibles for its shows …
Discussion: @grady_booch and @mathewi
Brent Lang / Variety:
Lionsgate explores a spinoff or sale of Starz, which it bought in 2016 for $4.4B; Lionsgate reported Q2 net income of $7.5M on revenue of $887.8M, up 20% YoY  —  Lionsgate swung back into profitable terrain during its most recent fiscal quarter, another sign that the pandemic's cloud is beginning to lift.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at the open source tool being built to authenticate images for Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative, which includes members AFP, BBC, NYT, and more  —  Earlier this month, a former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives sent a tweet implying that President Joe Biden's …
 
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Anthony Deutsch / Reuters:
Russia expels de Volkskrant reporter Tom Vennink, the second time it recently expelled a Western reporter; BBC's Sarah Rainsford was kicked out in August
Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson pledges to stop using real firearms on all projects produced by his company in the wake of the Rust set death
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
BBC edits its story that portrayed some trans women as predatory to remove quotes from an anti-trans lesbian who has called for trans women to be lynched
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ViacomCBS Q3: net income fell to $538M from $615M a year ago, revenue grew 13% YoY to $6.6B, and 4.3M streaming subscribers were added for a total of nearly 47M
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo pulls its services out of China in a largely symbolic gesture following LinkedIn, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment”
Laura Wagner / Defector:
Punchbowl News, a “membership-based news community”, still relies on advertising for most of its revenue, via sponsors including Exxon, Google, Uber, and PhRMA
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Smartmatic, the voting tech company that is suing Fox News and some of its hosts for defamation, adds Newsmax and OANN to the list of defendants
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
NYT Q3: $65M operating profit, up 15% YoY, on revenue of $509M, up 19.3% YoY; 455K new digital subs for a total of 8.4M subs, of which 1M+ are outside the US