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US official: Turkish investigators believe Kamal Khashoggi's body was dismembered, removed in boxes, and flown out of the country — ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded Monday that Saudi Arabia prove that journalist Jamal Khashoggi left the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on his own …
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Kamal 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 — ISTANBUL — The sleepless nights show in the dark circles under Hatice Cengiz's eyes as she recounts the last moments she saw her fiance …
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New York Post, @smekhennet, @mrdanzak, @yashar, @lovedaym, The Daily Caller, Politico, Middle East Eye and Editor & Publisher


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department has contacted Saudi officials about Khashoggi case and calls on Saudi Arabia to support investigation — The State Department confirmed Monday that it has spoken with Saudi Arabia's government regarding the disappearance of a Saudi journalist …
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@glcarlstrom, @maxblumenthal, @guyverhofstadt, @wrightr, @karaswisher, @mcfaul and Reuters


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 »


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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/Film, The Wrap, @tatianasiegel27 and Vanity Fair


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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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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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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Talking Biz News, @adamnash, @jessiwrites, @cfair1 and @danprimack


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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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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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 …


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.


RT's Washington correspondent Sameera Khan deleted her Twitter account after sharing memes praising Stalin's gulags — RT's Kremlin-financed Washington Correspondent Sameera Khan will face a “disciplinary review” after posting memes to Twitter praising the gulags of Joseph Stalin.
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@ianbateson, @levinejonathan, @jessesingal, @borzou and Mediaite