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1. ‘Serial’ Team Forms Podcast Production Firm, Sets Launch of New Series (Todd Spangler / Variety)
2. The BBC is Using Slow News to Fight Fake News (Jessica Davies / DigiDay)
3. Fox News Deletes False Québec Shooting Tweet After Canadian PM’s Office Steps In (Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian)
4. ‘Platforms Are Not Forever’: Hearst’s Troy Young on Platform-Publisher Relations (Lucia Moses / DigiDay)
5. The Times’ T Brand Studio Aims to Stand Out Amid Crowded Branded Content Battleground (Ken Doctor / Politico)
6. Publishers Are Loving Apple’s App Store Search Ads (Max Willens / DigiDay)