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10:20 AM ET, October 5, 2019

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Wall Street Journal:
Disney bans Netflix ads on most of its TV networks; it had initially issued a blanket ban on ads from any streamers, but reversed course for all but Netflix  —  Entertainment giants are set to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to promote new streaming services
Deadspin:
Documents and interviews show TheMaven's plans for Sports Illustrated: building “team communities”, or content farms, run by third parties using low-paid labor  —  Now that Sports Illustrated's three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven …
Defense One:
A Customs and Border Protection agent repeatedly asked a Defense One journalist, “You write propaganda, right?” during re-entry screening at Dulles airport  —  Repeating “You write propaganda, right?”, officer held passport until he received an affirmative answer.
Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues:
Microsoft: Iran-linked group attempted to hack 241 accounts belonging to a 2020 presidential campaign, journalists covering global politics, more  —  Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust  —  Today we're sharing that we've recently seen significant cyber activity …
Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
HuffPost laid off 11 full-time employees and two contractors in its video department on Thursday, citing new strategy to focus on “high audience engagement”  —  About 11 full-time employees — including five managers — were cut as HuffPost “realigns its video strategy,” the company said.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Supermarket giant Aldi will no longer sell newspapers or magazines in its UK stores; in the US, Kroger will stop carrying free papers and magazines October 15  —  You can still get a wine advent calendar at an Aldi store in the U.K., but you can't buy a newspaper to go along with it.
Privacy International:
Facebook, Google, and Twitter take a fragmentary approach to political ad transparency with heightened transparency in 35, 30, 32 countries, respectively  —  An analysis of what Facebook, Google, and Twitter have done to provide users with political ad transparency as of September 2019.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Bloomberg Law retracts Sept. 3 story on a Trump admin staffer accused of anti-Semitic Facebook posts, issues apology citing failure to meet editorial standards  —  Moments after Bloomberg Law's Sept. 3 story on Labor Department appointee Leif Olson hit the Internet, its retraction-worthy flaws …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
FT launches a six-month fellowship for aspiring black, Asian, and minority ethnic production journalists in memory of sub-editor Maisie Hylton  —  The Financial Times has launched a fellowship for aspiring ethnic minority journalists in memory of “much-loved” sub-editor Maisie Hylton.
Discussion: Creative Access and @ftpressoffice
Brent Lang / Variety:
Elisabeth Murdoch, former 20th Century Fox CEO Stacey Snider, and UK TV producer Jane Featherstone launch Sister, a global content production company  —  Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone are joining forces to launch Sister, a global production and development company …
Subrat Patnaik / Reuters:
Thomson Reuters buys B2B events specialist FC Business Intelligence, which it will rebrand as Reuters Events and operate as part of the news division  —  (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO) (TRI.N) said on Friday it had acquired business-to-business events specialist, FC Business Intelligence (FCBI).
 
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The Guardian:
Prince Harry files a legal claim against the owners of the Sun and the Daily Mirror over alleged phone hacking
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Sky News launched its first livestream on Twitch this week, joining publishers like Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and Cheddar
Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Sesame Street is moving from HBO to HBO Max in 2020 and will produce five new seasons; as before, it will air for free on PBS Kids after it premieres
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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
CNN rejects an ad from the Trump 2020 campaign, saying it fails to meet ad standards because it disparages CNN and its journalists and makes false claims