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4:00 AM ET, October 23, 2018

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Crain's Chicago Business:
Jim Kirk, former editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times, to return to Crain's Chicago Business as publisher and executive editor  —  Chicago media veteran Jim Kirk returns to Crain's Chicago Business to lead business operations as well as the newsroom.  —  Jim Kirk, a veteran …
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says European Union's copyright legislation, Article 13, threatens creators' livelihoods if implemented as proposed  —  ‘Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs’  —  The European Union's contentious copyright directive became a major talking point …
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The Membership Puzzle Project:
The Membership Puzzle Project launches a $700K fund for projects around the world experimenting with membership-based business models for news  —  Last year when the Membership Puzzle Project started studying news sites that were working with their supporters for revenue and to benefit their journalism, we heard two themes.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
A look at former BBC News director James Harding's Tortoise Media, a member-funded news organization targeting a younger audience that's set to launch next year  —  James Harding has said his move into “slow news” with new venture Tortoise Media was the result of a “lesson learned” …
Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Study: from the end of 2014 to the middle of 2018, 491 IRA-linked accounts sent 12K+ tweets about the NFL or anthem; 87% of partisan tweets leaned conservative  —  Russia-linked Twitter accounts sent more than 12,000 tweets about the NFL or the anthem in their alleged efforts to sow discord
CNN:
Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with Infowars, some for helping Infowars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban  —  New York (CNN Business)Twitter on Monday removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with the fringe right-wing media organization InfoWars, a company spokesperson told CNN.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The Associated Press deleted a tweet Sunday evening which called a large caravan of migrants from Central America a ragged “army”  —  “Some of the members of this 'army' are quite literally malnourished babies," says BuzzFeed's David Mack  —  The Associated Press deleted …
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Piper Jaffray: Netflix and YouTube account for 70.7% of teens' daily video consumption in the US, while cable TV now accounts for just 16.4%  —  - Netflix and YouTube rule the daily video consumption of teens, according to a new survey by Piper Jaffray.  — Cable TV has seen …
BBC:
YouTube says it will spend $20M as part of its YouTube Learning initiative to develop educational content that will be hosted on a new Learning channel  —  YouTube will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content on the platform, the company has announced.
 
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Michael McGowan / The Guardian:
Australian actor Geoffrey Rush testifies on first day of two-week defamation trial against Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph, over stories alleging misconduct
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Rita Katz / Wired:
Research shows ISIS and al-Qaeda have shifted away from YouTube for disseminating propaganda following the platform's 2017 crackdown against extremist content
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Study: of 1,220 Twitter users, Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative; conservative bots didn't change Democrats
Ruth Spencer / The Cut:
Interview with Robbie Kaplan, who is representing the creator of the Shitty Media Men list, Moira Donegan, in her defense against writer Stephen Elliott
Discussion: @moiradonegan
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Richard Parsons resigns as CBS board member and chairman, citing complications in his fight with myeloma; board appoints Strauss Zelnick as interim chairman
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Telegram partners with Tether to let the messaging app's ~900M users send USDT to each other through The Open Network blockchain

 
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