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Sky News:
James Murdoch and six other directors have resigned from the board of Sky plc, which is the owner of Sky News, as Comcast takes control — James Murdoch has resigned from the board of Sky plc, owner of Sky News, as Comcast takes majority control in a £29.7bn deal.
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Comcast confirms it has bought 21st Century Fox's stake in European broadcaster Sky, becoming its majority shareholder with 75% ownership — Company now owns 75% of satellite provider — Comcast said that it has purchased 21st Century Fox's stake in Sky and now owns 75% of the satellite broadcaster.
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Multichannel News, Telegraph, Reuters, CNBC, Hollywood Reporter, Comcast, @skynewsbreak, Phys.org, Pushback and Variety
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: just two weeks before production is due to begin on Roger Ailes movie, Annapurna Pictures leaves the project over budget issues — Bron Studios, the Canada-based company behind ‘Fences’ and ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ has come on to co-finance production, sources say, while Focus Features …
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Variety, The Wrap, @tatianasiegel27, The A.V. Club, Vanity Fair and /Film
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Source: Chelsea Barnard steps down as president of film at Annapurna; founder Megan Ellison will manage the film unit before the search for a replacement begins — Chelsea Barnard has stepped down from her post as president of film at Annapurna, an individual with knowledge of the company told Variety.
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Deadline, The Wrap, The Playlist and /Film
New York Times:
Source: Turkey has concluded Jamal Khashoggi was killed on orders from highest levels of Saudi's royal court; another source says video proof of death exists — ANKARA, Turkey — Top Turkish security officials have concluded that the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated …
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@washpostpr, Vox, The Hill, BBC, Slate, Bloomberg, Politico, @evan_rosenfeld, @tomgara, @timkaine, @nycsouthpaw, @johnmcquaid, Al Jazeera English and UN Geneva
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Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee Hatice Cengiz, the only witness to see him enter the Saudi consulate, says he'd feared something would happen to him there
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Politico, @amyjbrittain, @smekhennet, Middle East Eye, New York Post, @mrdanzak, @yashar, @lovedaym, The Daily Caller, Editor & Publisher and The Guardian
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Forbes partners with journalism blockchain network Civil to become the first major media company to experiment with publishing stories to the blockchain — Forbes, the century-old business publisher, is joining forces with Civil, a journalism blockchain network, to become the first major media company …
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@nicolebode, @baekdal, @mariabustillos, @lillian_ruiz, @tefomohapi, @randalllane and Civil, more at Techmeme »
Jessi Hempel / LinkedIn:
Wired Senior Writer Jessi Hempel is joining LinkedIn as senior editor at large — Starting this week, I'll be a senior editor at large for LinkedIn, based in New York City, and continuing to explore the set of ideas that has driven my reporting for the past 15 years …
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@adamnash, @jessiwrites, @cfair1, @danprimack and Talking Biz News
eMarketer and Newsroom Posts:
eMarketer forecast: video ad spending in the US will grow ~30% to $27.82B in 2018, making up 25% of US digital ad spending, with Facebook capturing ~24.5% of it — Facebook dominates with a quarter share — This year will mark a milestone for digital video advertising in the US, according to eMarketer's latest ad spending forecast.
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Tubefilter and Marketing Land
Variety:
Employees at Fox's film division 20th Century Fox are bracing themselves for mass layoffs when Disney deal closes; some analysts predict thousands of jobs cut — Media coverage of Disney's $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox's film and TV assets has focused on the historic union of two titans …
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TVWeek.com
The Moscow Times:
The office of a “troll farm” which is believed to be the vanguard of Russia's disinformation war was set on fire in St Petersburg overnight — The office of Russia's infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia's information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Discovery reorganizes its digital video operations and forms the Digital Studios Group, a hub for video content drawn from all of its brands — Discovery has reorganized its digital-video operations with the formation of the Digital Studios Group, a newly expanded hub for digital …
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Multichannel News, MediaPost and Radio & Television …
Gian Volpicelli / Wired UK:
UK Parliament committee plans to release “fake news” report in October, with detailed policy recommendations — The DCMS Committee's upcoming report, which has been led by Damian Collins, will answer one question: was democracy hacked? — Can democracy be hacked?
Kali Hays / WWD:
For a Google ad campaign, seven Condé Nast magazines including Architectural Digest and GQ turn over their November covers to images shot with the Pixel 3 — The advertising tie-in is the biggest simultaneously running cover campaign for Condé and Google.
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@condenast and @anoyes
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