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Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune: Texas Tribune EIC and chief audience officer are stepping down to launch a national nonprofit news organization aimed at giving women “facts, tools, and info” -
Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: Disney says there's no indication of a Disney+ security breach, in response to reports of thousands of users' accounts being hijacked and sold online for $3-$11 -
Matt Novak / Gizmodo: Facebook exec defends Breitbart on Facebook News, saying Breitbart is not being paid and balances out “far left” outlets, but it's unclear which ones she meant -
Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google announces Your News Update, an Assistant-powered audio feature that chooses stories based on interests, location, and more, available first in the US -
Ted Johnson / Deadline: DOJ antitrust head Makan Delrahim says the DOJ will move to end the 1940s Paramount consent decrees, which limit major distributors' control over theater chains -
NBC News: Emails show that a 2015 article, fed by Stephen Miller, ran in Breitbart with a “Breitbart News” byline at Miller's insistence, disguising opinion as editorial -
Jim Waterson / The Guardian: During Tuesday's debate, UK's Conservative party renamed its main media Twitter account as “factcheckUK” and changed its logo to push anti-Labour material -
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: The impeachment defense contending that only people with firsthand knowledge of events are qualified to know about them implicitly impugns reporting practices -
Mackenzie Nichols / Variety: Sen. Warren, Sen. Sanders, others ask for an independent investigation into NBC News over allegations in Catch and Kill, a day before MSNBC hosts a Dem. debate -
Richard Vega / The Streamable: Amazon unveils $34.99 Fire TV Blaster, a new infrared device that brings more TV voice commands for those with a Fire TV and Echo -
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, available in the US and elsewhere -
CNN: Current and former The Hill employees: owner Jimmy Finkelstein tells editors when Trump coverage too harsh, staff in “revolt” over handling of John Solomon saga -
Michael Calderone / Politico: The Hill says it's reviewing, annotating, and when appropriate, correcting former columnist John Solomon's opinion pieces referenced in the impeachment inquiry