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6:10 PM ET, November 5, 2019

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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Paul Maidment resigns as editorial director of G/O Media effective immediately to pursue “an entrepreneurial opportunity”  —  Paul Maidment says it “has been a great honor” to work at G/O Media.  —  G/O Media's editorial director Paul Maidment has left the company less than a week …
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Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
G/O's demand that Deadspin stick to sports is foolish, as much of what happens in sports is a result of power, money, and the culture in which athletes operate  —  Two years ago, Sports Illustrated, which had been a weekly magazine for decades, began publishing just thirty-nine issues a year.
Mike Wright / Citrus County Chronicle:
Florida county commissioners block funding for a NYT digital subscription for the libraries; one called the paper “fake news” he doesn't want in the county  —  Citrus County residents reacted strongly over the weekend with the news that county commissioners blocked the library system …
Kiley Roache / Bloomberg:
Freedom House report concludes global internet freedom declined for the ninth consecutive year; AI advances are fueling a boom in surveillance of social media  —  - Freedom House says AI opens up new ways for mass surveillance  — U.S. score drops amid increased monitoring of social media
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Sources: Zuckerberg remains open to some ideas about how to control political ads, including limiting the ability of candidates to microtarget users  —  Banning microtargeting has the support of Ellen Weintraub, chairwoman of the FEC, which regulates how money is raised and spent in elections.
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Sources: Disney will run ads for Starz on the login pages for Disney+ and ESPN+ in exchange for streaming rights for films it had licensed to Starz  —  At the center of the deal is Star Wars  —  Disney+ and ESPN+ will run ads promoting the premium TV channel Starz, The Verge has learned.
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Texas Tribune shuts TribTalk, its sister site of contributed opinion pieces and sponsored content, after five years, citing little traffic and social shares  —  “It was a good sandbox to see if there's a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we'd treat them in a design and workflow way …
Washington Post:
Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content  —  Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Hill is launching a new “centrist” site, Changing America, which claims to be nonpartisan, with former Smithsonian mag EIC Michael Caruso leading editorial  —  The Hill, a news outlet that gained notoriety as a font for Ukraine-oriented conspiracy theories …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Amy Robach says Project Veritas video caught her in “private moment of frustration” because ABC “quashed” 2015 Epstein accuser interview over lack of evidence  —  The ‘20/20’ co-anchor explained comments she made in a video that was published by Project Veritas.
 
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Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal:
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Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
YouTube announces “Shopping” ads, a scrollable catalog of static images, which will appear on the home feed and in search results
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: sports streaming service DAZN plans to make nearly all of its non-live content available for free to build awareness of its exclusive content
Angelica Mari / ZDNet:
Brazil has the second highest podcast consumption in the world, after the US, with 40% of its internet users having listened to a podcast, per local survey
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Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
IRS approves nonprofit status for Salt Lake Tribune, making it the first legacy paper to make the switch; ownership to be shifted to a public board of directors