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Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple also an unlikely suitor; Twitter's stock down about 10% after hours — Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims — According to sources close to the situation, Google does not currently plan to make a bid for Twitter.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder — Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either. — Sources familiar with Disney, which was mulling a possible Twitter purchase last week …
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter board consulting advisers on how to deal with internal disagreement over possible sale, with Ev Williams in favor of and Dorsey against it — A few days before Twitter's Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company's finance team readied a presentation, it received conflicting directions on a crucial question.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity trade insults over their divergent approaches to covering Trump, the latest example of a widening ideological rift inside Fox News — Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity, who have back-to-back shows on Fox News, have a sharp difference of opinion about Donald Trump.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Atlantic endorses Clinton, its third endorsement in 159 years, but the impact of editorials against Trump remains unclear — The Atlantic magazine has made only two presidential endorsements in its 159-year history: one for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and one for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
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Cora Lewis / BuzzFeed:
Fusion's newsroom prepares to unionize with Writers Guild of America, East; management sends email saying move “would not be beneficial” for staff or company — Update: Management responds with company-wide email stating unionization “would not be beneficial for you or Fusion.”
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@cora, @jeremymbarr, Politico, @tomgara, @barryap1, @sparkyrandles, @saramorrison, The Huffington Post and FishbowlNY
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Nielsen: vice presidential debate drew 37.2M viewers across nine TV channels, the lowest number since the 2000 Cheney-Lieberman debate — Tuesday night's vice presidential debate drew a smaller audience than the VP debates in 2012 and 2008, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.
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Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, Ad Age, Politico, MediaFile, @kfile, Nielsen, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, The Week, WNEP-TV and New York Times
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
BuzzFeed attacked by hacker group OurMine after publishing story identifying a member; group alters articles, claims to have seized database, threatens release — A number of BuzzFeed posts were vandalized by hackers this morning in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to expose a member of their group.
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BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, True Pundit, Guardian, @bernstein, @josephfcox, @buzzfeedben, Mediaite, Softpedia News, @miriamelder, Mashable, iMediaEthics, The Drum and New York Magazine
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
How marketers created “Rachel Brewson” and other online characters for a fake tale of romance and politics with actors posing on ABC Nightline to drive traffic — In December 2015, readers at women's site xoJane were enthralled and filled with all-caps rage by Rachel Brewson …
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@annamerlan, @annehelen, bookforum.com, @mmasnick and Talking Points Memo
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight, where data-driven political journalism attracted 10M unique visitors last month — On a Monday night in September, 2,000 people gathered at a theater off Times Square to watch five political journalists sit on a stage and talk about polls.
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@cjr, @bypetevernon, @carlbialik, @thomaswilburn, @nicktheandersen and @albertocairo
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Roku updates Direct Publisher Platform, lets publishers create channels without writing code, offers to handle all video ad sales for 40% cut — Roku today isrolling out new tools that will make it simpler for anyone to bring their video content to its media player lineup, without having to write any code.
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David Kroman / Crosscut:
How the staff and community of Seattle public radio saved KPLU, now KNKX radio, by raising $8M in six months to buy its independence — Ariel Van Cleave was somewhere in Montana, driving from Ohio toward her new job with the Seattle-based public radio station KPLU, when her cellphone rang.
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