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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN sues Trump and top aides, alleging that the suspension of Jim Acosta's press pass is a violation of Acosta's and CNN's First and Fifth Amendment rights — New York (CNN)CNN is filing a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
After Trump denied Jim Acosta a press pass, networks and WH reporters were left with a choice to protest the move or do nothing, and both options have drawbacks
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Mediaite, Poynter, MediaFile, @peterbakernyt, @ashleyfeinberg, @schafer42, @jayrosen_nyu, @erinjonesin2016, @jimrutenberg, @postscottwilson and @benmullin
Richard Morgan / New York Post:
Source: the New York Yankees are planning to buy back the YES Network from Fox as Fox works to sell off its regional sports networks — The New York Yankees are in talks to buy back YES Network as Disney and Twenty-First Century Fox look to clear their $71.3 billion merger, The Post has learned.
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Bloomberg, Multichannel News and Awful Announcing
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Quartz launches free new app with curated news stories and contributions from business leaders and introduces a premium membership tier for $14.99/month — Quartz is to launch a subscription tier for its business coverage and a new app that will offer aggregated news and user discussion …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
In rushing to call the midterm elections in time for next-day analysis, journalists play into the harmful notion that elections are over on election night — Democratic strategist James Carville, on MSNBC, was among the first to make the proclamation last Tuesday evening: “It's not going to be a wave election.”
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Poynter, tompepinsky.com and bookforum.com
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pandora launches Podcast Genome Project in beta, combining its Music Genome technology with human editorial oversight to offer podcast recommendations — Earlier this year, Pandora challenged Spotify's personalization capabilities by using its Music Genome technology to create dozens of customized playlists for its users.
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Nieman Lab, AdExchanger and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Thomson Reuters:
Reuters names Michael Friedenberg president of Reuters news and media operations, starting December 3 — Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI) today announced that Michael Friedenberg will join the company as president of Reuters news and media operations, effective December 3.
Rani Molla / Recode:
Smart speakers' effect on audio: NPR's listening hours from speaker owners up 15% YoY, podcast listeners skip ads less, Spotify users likelier to listen daily — Until we invent something that wouldn't be possible without voice, we're just repurposing online content for our ears.
BBC:
BBC study in India, Kenya, and Nigeria: people are overly confident about spotting fake news and don't tend to question the source of the original message — A rising tide of nationalism in India is driving ordinary citizens to spread fake news, according to BBC research.
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@divyaspandana and Quartz
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
In covering natural disasters, newspapers often fail to tie them to climate change even when they investigate and cover climate change as a general phenomenon — California is burning again. Separate fires in the north and south of the state wreaked devastation over the weekend and are not done yet.
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Wired, Slate, @guardian, fox5sandiego.com and Mediaite
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
NetEase Cloud Music, a music streaming service by Chinese games and publishing giant NetEase, raises $600M from investors including Baidu and General Atlantic — As Tencent Music, China's largest streaming firm, reportedly stalls on its proposed U.S. IPO, one of its closest challengers is doubling down.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Despite record box office numbers, an existential crisis has emerged for Hollywood with the rise of streaming services, plus #MeToo and media consolidation — Resting in the film executive's sweaty palm was an extremely long rectangular pill stamped “X-A-N-A-X.” — “Want half?” he said.
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@sarahlerner and @rachsyme
Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Creator Blog:
YouTube CEO warns of unintended consequences of EU's Article 13 and says YouTube may have to block videos in the EU to avoid liability under the new directive — This op-ed originally appeared in the Financial Times. — Creativity has long been a guiding force in my life …
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