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Source: the possible sale of Endemol Shine is off, as 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management suspend the process; Disney will get Fox's 50% stake — UPDATED: The sale of Endemol Shine is off, Variety has learned. Senior staff members at the production and distribution giant were told …
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21st Century Fox's reports Q3 revenues of $7.18B, up 2% YoY, missing analyst estimates, and earnings of $1.29B, up 54% YoY — Earnings at 21st Century Fox were in line with expectations on Wednesday, even as the media conglomerate's revenues for its most recent financial quarter fell short of projections.
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Fox News said it does not condone Sean Hannity's appearance onstage at a Trump rally on Monday night and called it an “unfortunate distraction” — Fox News Channel said it did not condone host Sean Hannity's appearance Monday night during President Donald Trump's campaign rally …
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HuffPost National Reporter Christopher Mathias says he was told to leave Rep. Steve King's election night party by King's son, Jeff — Just got kicked out of Steve King's election night party! King's son Jeff, who is the campaign chairman, told me to leave the building.
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Tony Leys / Des Moines Register:
Steve King barred his local paper, The Des Moines Register, from his election night event in Sioux City, with his son calling it a “leftist propaganda outlet”
Steve King barred his local paper, The Des Moines Register, from his election night event in Sioux City, with his son calling it a “leftist propaganda outlet”
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Hollywood producer Jason Blum was booed off stage at Israel Film Festival for criticizing Trump, with one reality TV star attempting to remove him — With the midterm elections heavy on everyone's mind, Jason Blum was booed offstage at the Israel Film Festival, where he was being honored …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — LONDON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving …
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Defy Media has ceased operations and let go of most employees, with a small team staying onboard to try and sell brands like Smosh — “Unfortunately, market conditions got in the way of us completing our mission," a company spokeswoman said in a statement.
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James Loke Hale / Tubefilter:
Sources: Defy Media is shutting down its LA office and making the ~80 employees who work there redundant
Sources: Defy Media is shutting down its LA office and making the ~80 employees who work there redundant
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Axios expects its annual revenue to double YoY to $20M+ in 2018 and still plans to launch a subscription product but likely not by the end of 2018 — Axios remains in no rush to release the high-end subscription product that the news publisher publicly discussed months before the company's January 2017 launch.
The Guardian:
The Guardian partners with Google to launch Guardian Voice Lab, which will make and test voice-driven audio experiences for Google Assistant with a team of four — Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce the launch of Guardian Voice Lab - an in-house team dedicated to experimenting …
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Google says it has invested $100M+ in YouTube's Content ID system, up from $60M two years ago, and has given $3B+ to rights-holders, up from $2B+ in 2016 — As part of longstanding efforts to prove that it's serious about combating piracy, Google today revealed some updated numbers from across its various digital products.
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UK trade body AOP and The Media Trust plan to launch a free tool that will let publishers see what cookies are dropped on their sites and by which vendors — More publishers want to crack down on rogue cookies on their sites. — For publishers, monitoring which cookies are dropped …

Right Wing News, one of hundreds of “inauthentic” Facebook Pages removed in October, consistently outperformed Pages like Breitbart and Fox News from 2013-2016 — Part III: Granular Enforcement — The third part of my midterm election-time study looks at granular enforcement …
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A look at several successful journalism Kickstarter campaigns as seven of the ten most funded journalism projects on the site took place in the last year — The first time the National Observer tried to raise money on Kickstarter, they couldn't get the framing quite right.
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