Mediagazer: EU approves guidelines whereby 30% of all content carried on streaming services must be European with strict rules on ads and product placement in kids' content (Scott Roxborough/Hollywood Reporter)

Jason Schwartz / Politico:

Study finds that of the 700K+ Twitter accounts that linked to 600+ sites spreading misinformation in 2016, more than 80% are still active and many are bots — Twitter is still rife with “fake news” a month out from the 2018 midterms, with more than 80 percent of the accounts …

Discussion: Trust, Media and Democracy, Nieman Lab, NPR, Poynter, @serena, @sarahburris and @heikan2003

Los Angeles Times:

Slate Editor-in-Chief Julia Turner is leaving to become deputy managing editor responsible for arts and entertainment coverage at The Los Angeles Times — The Los Angeles Times named Julia Turner its deputy managing editor responsible for Arts and Entertainment coverage.

Discussion: @juliaturner, @sewellchan, @sulliview, @thehighsign, @latimes, @dankois, @sivavaid, @ericmgarcia and @davidfolkenflik

Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:

EU approves guidelines whereby 30% of all content carried on streaming services must be European with strict rules on ads and product placement in kids' content — Under the new guidelines, 30 percent of all content carried on streaming services in Europe will have to come from the region.

Discussion: European Parliament, TechCrunch, Engadget, @rasmus_kleis, Screen, Broadcast and Advanced Television, more at Techmeme »

Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:

With its investigation of Trump's wealth, the NYT acknowledged its past role in glorifying Trump's negotiating skills and found the proof for what some assumed — We live at a time when journalism can land with great force. The epic investigation published Tuesday by The New York Times …

Discussion: @spj_tweets, Poynter, DCReport.org, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, @jayrosen_nyu, @columbiajourn, bookforum.com and Editor & Publisher

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

CNN launches CNN Business, a site with a focus on how tech affects other business sectors, and opens a San Francisco bureau as it shuts down CNNMoney — CNN is taking the wraps off its new business site, CNN Business, to reflect an increased emphasis on Silicon Valley.

Discussion: TVNewser and Adweek

Charleston Gazette-Mail:

Ken Ward Jr., a veteran reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail and the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, gets a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation — Your support makes that possible — subscribe today — Your support makes that possible — subscribe today

Discussion: Poynter, @tomeblen, @loisbeckett, @ericliptonnyt, @pamelacolloff, @kenwardjr, @derekwillis, @macfound, @sopandeb, @ericeyre, @robbyerswv and New York Times

Trey Williams / The Wrap:

CEO of the owner of MoviePass says the company raised $65M in September and that subscribers are going to less than one movie a month on average — TheGrill 2018: “We've been the underdog since August 15 of last year... we're still here, and we're not going anywhere," Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth says

Discussion: Variety, TechCrunch, Engadget, Fortune, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, The Verge and Business Insider

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

A look at NYT's Wirecutter Money, which focuses on services, not products, and aims at the same age group that dominates Wirecutter's audience: millennials — Imagine a world in which Donald Trump is no longer President. — No, really. Okay, if that concept's beyond your immediate comprehension …

Discussion: @nbj914

Sinéad Baker / Business Insider:

Wikipedia initially rejected a page for scientist Donna Strickland in May due to lack of “significant coverage”, then built a page after she won a Nobel Prize — - Dr. Donna Strickland jointly won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, but she did not have a Wikipedia page until then.

Discussion: @jimmy_wales, Fortune, Quartz, @scicurious, @marxculture, @raju, The Atlantic, The Guardian and Quartz

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

Unilad parent company goes into administration with £6M+ in debt; Linton Capital, RocketSports have made a £10M offer to acquire the publisher with some layoffs — Hundreds of jobs at risk with parent company owing £6m and administration looming

Discussion: The Drum

CNBC:

Barnes & Noble to look at strategic alternatives including a possible sale, after receiving interest from multiple parties including Chairman Leonard Riggio — - The announcement follows expressions of interest from multiple parties, including its chairman Leonard Riggio, it said in a statement.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Observer, Section Page News, Publishers Weekly, Barnes & Noble Inc., Talking Biz News, CNNMoney, Quartz, The Digital Reader, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, CBS News and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News:

Cheddar is using Synacor and its Cloud ID platform to give free access to viewers via YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV — Buffalo tech vendor says its cloud-based identity management tool is being use by digital news platform for vMVPD authentication — Buffalo, NY-based pay TV software …

Discussion: Axios and The Wrap

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Turkish court upholds life sentences without parole for four journalists; Turkey has 73 journalists in jail, more than any other country — An Istanbul court of appeals yesterday upheld the sentences of life in prison without parole handed to four prominent Turkish journalists in February, media reported.

Discussion: Globe Post Turkey, Reuters, Jerusalem Post, Globe Post Turkey, Ahval and Kurdistan24