Mediagazer: Maine's tight Senate race has helped offset pandemic losses for local news with the Bangor Daily News seeing a 3,000% increase in political ad spending vs. 2014 (Addy Baird/BuzzFeed News)

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Glenn Greenwald quits The Intercept, saying its editors refused to publish a post unless he removed parts critical of Biden; he will now publish on Substack — The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed …

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Glenn Greenwald publishes his email exchange with Intercept editors about his Biden story, which he says precipitated his resignation — Given The Intercept's vehement denials, readers are entitled to see for themselves what the truth is: transparency journalism with integrity requires.

David Bauder / Associated Press:

A look at how news outlets are preparing their election night coverage, with plans for extended coverage and transparency about what's known and what isn't — NEW YORK (AP) — This coming weekend, CNN's Sam Feist will distribute to his staff copies of the testimony news executives gave …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Insider Inc., parent of Business Insider, buys a majority stake in Morning Brew in an all-cash deal; sources say the deal values Morning Brew at around $75M — Insider Inc., the parent company to Business Insider, closed an all-cash deal Thursday to buy a majority stake in Morning Brew …

Addy Baird / BuzzFeed News:

Maine's tight Senate race has helped offset pandemic losses for local news with the Bangor Daily News seeing a 3,000% increase in political ad spending vs. 2014 — WASHINGTON — Two years ago, when Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced that she would vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh …

Discussion: @mr_berman and @addysbaird

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

CNN contributor and former DHS COS Miles Taylor reveals he is Anonymous, the senior Trump admin official who wrote a NYT column in 2018 and book in 2019 — Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump …

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT, by overstating Miles Taylor's seniority when it published his op-ed, and CNN, by letting him lie on live TV, disgraced themselves in the Anonymous charade

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Twitter has labeled a tweet from Russia's RT as disputed and possibly misleading, as it included a video saying voter fraud could delegitimize the US election — Twitter on Thursday labeled a tweet from Russian state media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) that included …

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Amazon reports Q3 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $5.4B, up 51% YoY, and subscription services revenue of $6.58B, up 33% YoY — Amazon today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2020, including revenue up 37% to $96.1 billion …

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Ludovic Blecher / The Keyword:

Google releases final impact report of its €150M , five-year Digital Innovation Fund, which supported 662 digital news projects in Europe through 2019 — Head of Google News Initiative Innovation — Five years ago, as we saw news publishers shifting towards digital formats and trying …

Makena Kelly / The Verge:

Profile of FCC's Brendan Carr, a key figure in the Republican fight against Big Tech and potential FCC chairman if Trump is reelected — SHARE All sharing options — Ted Cruz was shouting at Jack Dorsey. — “Who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed …

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Sarah Kim / Korea JoongAng Daily:

In Q&A, NYT's international president discusses why it chose Korea as its new Asia hub and says it began contingency plans to leave Hong Kong three years ago — Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, international president of The New York Times Company, said the high level of press freedom in Korea …

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Filipino activists and journalists want Facebook to tackle deadly disinformation coming from the government, resulting in enemies being “red-tagged” and killed — Targeted by government misinformation, activists are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of “red-tagging”

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Kim Lyons / The Verge:

YouTube reports $5B in Q3 ad revenue, up 30% YoY from $3.8B, has more than 30M paid music and premium subscribers; YouTube TV has more than 3M subscribers — Parent company Alphabet reported better-than-expected third quarter ad revenue results — Google parent company Alphabet's third …

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