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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
In what she assumed was an off-the-record call, Kellyanne Conway mocked and threatened a Washington Examiner reporter for mentioning Conway's husband in a story — Top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, describing herself as “a powerful woman,” aggressively and disparagingly told a female reporter …
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Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
The White House has canceled its print subscriptions to NYT and Washington Post and plans to instruct federal agencies to cancel their subscriptions — Donald Trump's pettiness knows no limit. It was proven yet again Tuesday, when the White House cancelled its subscriptions to the New York Times …
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Chandler Rome / Houston Chronicle:
The Houston Astros fire executive Brandon Taubman and apologize to a Sports Illustrated reporter after probe of comments Taubman yelled toward female reporters — WASHINGTON — The Astros fired assistant general manager Brandon Taubman on Thursday afternoon and issued an apology …
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Tommy Shane / First Draft:
First Draft to offer free training and tech support to help US newsrooms discover, verify, and investigate online content in preparation for the 2020 election — Craig Newmark Philanthropies joins Google News Initiative in supporting organization's mission to reach every journalist in every state
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Facebook to pay some news partners as much as $3M a year for appearing in its news tab, to be available as a test Friday for a couple hundred thousand US users — Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building …
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Facebook to unveil news tab at an event Friday with News Corp's Robert Thomson; sources: direct payments to 200 publishers will go up to millions of dollars
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY; ad revenue of $702M, up 8% YoY; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY — Twitter today reported its earnings for the quarter that ended September 30, and the numbers delivered a big surprise, falling on both sales and earnings per share.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Jeff Zucker says he wants to hire former Fox anchor Shepard Smith and defends the practice of hiring pro-Trump contributors to speak for the president — “When he's available, he is somebody who is very talented and I would be very open to talking to him," the network president said.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
NBCU's Steve Burke says Peacock will be bundled into Comcast's streaming platform Flex and that NBC will continue to license its content, unlike Disney — NBCUniversal chief Steve Burke predicts that things are going to get even more intense among the media and tech giants launching streaming platforms …
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Ad Age, Deadline, The Wrap, Adweek, Crain's New York Business, Multichannel News and The Streamable
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Ofcom report: BBC should include more links to rivals and its journalists should call out lies more, says small number of politicized viewers erode trust in BBC — Report finds broadcaster must do more to prove value to viewers more familiar with Netflix — The BBC is at risk of losing …
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Paris Martineau / Wired:
New report says the proliferation of right-wing content on YouTube is driven by both supply and demand rather than the platform's recommendation algorithm — In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content.
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Shannon Liao / CNN:
Caffeine, which raised $146M from 21st Century Fox and others and aims to compete with Twitch, signs rapper Offset to live stream games and host a variety show — New York (CNN Business)In the world of live-streamed video games, there's Twitch and then there's everything else.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Profile of Storyful's 11-member investigative team, which has worked with NYT, WSJ, and others to mine social media for stories about the 2020 election — In some cases, newsrooms have specific ideas or topics they need researched. In other cases, Storyful has an idea that it looks to find a home for.
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