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Oh, and there's one more thing for this episode.
Hello, @netflix :)
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Personal news: After nearly 8 years at NPR, I’m excited to share that I’m going to Bloomberg to help lead coverage of the prediction market industry. I’ll be joining their mighty crypto and prediction markets team, which has long been doing really impressive work for @business and @BW. I start just after midterms.
Kalshi/Polymarket/PM tips or convos: ballyn.77 on Signal
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From @koblin: Jon Stewart has signed a new deal that will keep him on at 'The Daily Show' through December 2028 nytimes.com/2026/10/19/busin…
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Calling all Ringerheads! I tried to explore a question on all of our minds: Is Bill freezing Sean out of The Rewatchables? (I ran the numbers and, like a psycho, even made a chart!)
More here: whatevs.substack.com/p/dig-m…
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NEW: Shook Research Changes Name to Veritant After Forbes Scandal
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Scoop: YouTube has had discussions with publishers in recent months about developing an audiobook feature wsj.com/business/media/youtu… via @WSJ
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Can Fin-Syn make a comeback? CAA, WME, UTA, Ron Howard, Jason Blum, Mark Burnett and a bunch of other producers sure hope so. On their efforts to get a bill passed in Congress: nytimes.com/2026/10/14/busin…
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Inbox: The Washington Post is laying off 118 people at a printing plant in Springfield, Va. that the company is closing.
The layoffs are slated to happen on Dec. 31.
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Thrilled to announce @DealBook Summit lineup on Nov 18. Please join us!
JD Vance, v.p. of the United States
Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada
Sam Altman, OpenAI
Hailey Bieber, Rhode
Greg Brockman, OpenAI
Shayne Coplan, Polymarket
David Ellison, Skydance
Adena Friedman, Nasdaq
Christine Lagarde, president of the E.C.B.
Palmer Luckey, Anduril
Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City
Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla (and more)
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Vlad Tenev, Robinhood
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With much of the Democratic party disenchanted with the political establishment, I asked Hillary Clinton whether voters want to hear from her right now.
"Well, the first thing I’d say is, I’ve been called worse than ‘establishment,’" she joked.
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scoop: @HillaryClinton is launching a new podcast with Kara Swisher about the midterms, "High Stakes."
"If we don’t reverse this chaos and corruption and cruelty that is being visited upon us by this administration, we won’t recognize our country."
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scoop: @HillaryClinton is launching a new podcast with Kara Swisher about the midterms, "High Stakes."
"If we don’t reverse this chaos and corruption and cruelty that is being visited upon us by this administration, we won’t recognize our country."
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Affleck strikes me as a Protoss player
Ben Affleck says he spent 3 years at home playing StarCraft after becoming famous
“There was a game called StarCraft that probably took the most life out of me for a period of time. I had just got famous and all I did was stay home for three years and play StarCraft”
“I love Valorant. It's a great game. The problem with that game is that with kids that have been raised playing, I just get f**king rocked. I'm like, ‘Are you f**king cheating?’ And I get mad. It's very humiliating”
“I love 2K. I love Madden. And the early Doom, when I first played that game, which then gave rise to Quake. We played that endlessly for hours when we were doing Good Will Hunting. I remember writing and taking these long breaks to play Doom”
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Some news: NPR is planning to discuss a reorganization of its teams next week with an emphasis on subject areas of news, music and “lifestyle.” On Friday, Nadine Zylstra, NPR’s content chief, sent this memo saying the reorg would not result in job losses.
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The government should not use antitrust investigations to intimidate news outlets defending press access. The public’s right to know depends on that access. | @CPJAmericas
NEWS: The Justice Department is investigating whether CNN, Fox News, CBS, ABC and NBC violated antitrust law by suspending pool coverage of President Trump. w/ @dmccabe, @grynbaum, @LaurenSHirsch and @GlennThrush
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NEWS: The Justice Department is investigating whether CNN, Fox News, CBS, ABC and NBC violated antitrust law by suspending pool coverage of President Trump. w/ @dmccabe, @grynbaum, @LaurenSHirsch and @GlennThrush
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The DOJ is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of President Trump
@dmccabe @BenMullin @grynbaum
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