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Michael Sheetz / CNBC: Satellite radio company SiriusXM to acquire music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music … -
Aisha Hassan / Quartz: Spotify and Ancestry.com team up to offer users playlists based on DNA test results; generator to select tracks from ancestral cultures and listening habits -
Hollywood Reporter: NBC Entertainment head Bob Greenblatt to be replaced by new co-chairmen George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy, effective immediately -
Komal Gupta / Livemint: WhatsApp has appointed Komal Lahiri as grievance officer to help curb the spread of misinformation and rumors in India, Lahiri will be based in the US -
Sugandha Rawal / The News Minute: During India's 2019 election campaign, the BBC will run a fact-checking service, BBC Reality Check, to debunk fake news circulating on WhatsApp, other platforms -
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / Jezebel: Five women describe emotional abuse, manipulation, and gaslighting by Mic writer Jack Smith IV; Mic says it found no evidence of improper behavior by him at Mic -
John Leland / New York Times: Seven ways the Village Voice, which laboriously covered local news in NYC, made a difference, from uncovering corruption to giving voice to feminists -
Alex Sherman / CNBC: Source: Comcast is willing to sell its 30% stake in streaming service Hulu to Disney — - Comcast expects Disney will let go of its 39 percent stake … -
Spriha Srivastava / CNBC: UK broadcaster Sky says it has accepted $39B takeover offer from Comcast, urges shareholders to accept the offer immediately -
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed: Right-wing sites funded by Russia's Internet Research Agency were used to target /r/The_Donald subreddit where the sites' stories were shared thousands of times -
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: In an effort to reach $8M for its ICO, Civil to sell CVL tokens using direct payments after complains about the complexity of the buying process -
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast: A look at how Barstool Sports employees, fans regularly harass female reporters, with founder Dave Portnoy once asking if a woman “kind of deserves to be raped” -
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: Ian Rylett, co-founder of YouTube tween channel SevenAwesomeKids, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor; YouTube demonetized the channel but left it up -
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: The Guardian's special projects head Mark Rice-Oxley tells journalism seminar mental health should be part of diversity conversations and performance reviews