Mediagazer: Civil, the blockchain-based system to fund journalism, has raised $5M from ConsenSys and has attracted its first publication, news and politics site Popula (Ricardo Bilton/Nieman Lab)

8:35 AM ET, October 27, 2017

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Women of the campaign press corps say Mark Halperin's unsavory behavior was an “open secret”, dating from the mid-1990s — Dianna Goldberg was a young researcher at ABC News in 1994 when she asked a colleague, Mark Halperin, for some information about a story.

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The Daily Beast:

Penguin Press announces it is canceling plans to publish book Mark Halperin was co-authoring on 2016 election — Penguin Press announced on Thursday that it was dropping Mark Halperin's new book amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment against the journalist and author.

Discussion: @oliverdarcy and Mediaite

Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:

HBO drops miniseries about the 2016 election based on Mark Halperin's planned book after sexual harassment claims — The project, announced in March, was set to be directed by Jay Roach and produced by Tom Hanks. — HBO is dropping its planned miniseries about the 2016 presidential election …

Discussion: The A.V. Club, Variety, Mediaite, Deadline, The Daily Beast, @poniewozik, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, TVWeek.com, Just Jared and The Week

Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Mark Halperin placed on indefinite leave at MSNBC following accusations of sexual assault

Discussion: Variety, Variety, The Daily Beast, The Wrap, The Daily Caller and @grynbaum

Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Five women accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment while he was at ABC News; Halperin apologizes

Twitter:

Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research — Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately.

RT:

Russia Today shares details of 2016 advertising pitch from Twitter to promote RT's US election coverage — Twitter pushed RT for a large ad buy for the 2016 US election, but the channel declined the offer. — Trends — At the end of September, Twitter published a report titled 'Russian interference …

Discussion: Forbes, @m_simonyan, Fortune, Sputnik International, The Hill, @adams, @mathewi, The Guardian, Russian Foreign Ministry, Mediaite, Variety, Recode and The Drum

Business Wire:

Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $43.74B, up 34% YoY, vs $42.14B expected; net income of $256M, up from $252M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2017.

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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:

Civil, the blockchain-based system to fund journalism, has raised $5M from ConsenSys and has attracted its first publication, news and politics site Popula — One of the most confusing efforts to fund journalism in recent memory is inching closer to reality.

Discussion: @liberationtech, Civil, @alltheshapes, PR Newswire and investFeed Edge, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:

Streaming platform Qello merges with video publishing tech company 8sian Media, new firm will keep Qello name, Gary Winnick will serve as chairman of company — 8sian Media focuses on video publishing, syndication systems — Qello, a streaming platform that also owns and operates …

Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:

Time Inc. cuts 50-75 staffers; spokeswoman declines to say whether more reductions are coming later this year — The cuts are part of Time Inc.'s continued digital transformation. — Food & Wine is leaving Time Inc.'s New York headquarters. — Time Inc. has let go of between 50 and 75 employees, WWD has learned.

Discussion: Folio, @jeremymbarr, Mediawire and Forbes

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Sources: Spotify is canceling original video series on the service, as well as shows it hasn't released, as the company rethinks its video strategy — New video chief at online music service wants fresh approach — Company looks to diversify revenue without added royalty costs

Discussion: TechSpot, Engadget, 9to5Mac and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hours/day, up 70% in the last year — YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year. — YouTube has been trying to position itself as a TV competitor for years.

Discussion: Variety

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Memo: BuzzFeed News restructures entertainment coverage, spurred by “holes in our Weinstein coverage”; three entertainment editors to leave — BuzzFeed News is changing its approach to covering the entertainment biz — after top editors perceived that the site trailed on coverage …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

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Raphael Minder / New York Times:
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