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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Six More Women Allege That Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Them — Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, but she is not the first. In my 2014 biography of the Fox News chief, I included interviews with four women who told …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Lawyers for Roger Ailes file documents saying Gretchen Carlson's contract requires arbitration and accusing her of gamesmanship by suing Ailes, not Fox News — Lawyers for Fox News chairman Roger Ailes on Friday asked a federal judge to halt anchor Gretchen Carlson's “shameless publicity campaign” …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Carlson lawsuit against Roger Ailes forces Fox News to deal with changing power at 21st Century Fox and a changing world
Carlson lawsuit against Roger Ailes forces Fox News to deal with changing power at 21st Century Fox and a changing world
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Gretchen Carlson's Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit May Allow Murdoch Sons to Finally Oust Roger Ailes From Fox News
Gretchen Carlson's Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit May Allow Murdoch Sons to Finally Oust Roger Ailes From Fox News
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Facebook Live raises questions about raw content that news organizations have faced for decades, with no immediate clear answers — Until this week, the most-buzzed-about Facebook Live videos were a BuzzFeed experiment to blow up a watermelon with rubber bands and a Texas woman's hysterical reaction to a Chewbacca mask.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Immediacy, intimacy, mass reach, and influence on media show the power of Facebook Live and other streaming services — When Philando Castile was shot by a Minnesota police officer Wednesday evening, his girlfriend's first instinct was to start broadcasting.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Pulitzer Prize winner Sydney H. Schanberg, who inspired the film “The Killing Fields”, dies at 82 — Sydney H. Schanberg, a correspondent for The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Cambodia's fall to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 and inspired the film “The Killing Fields” …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
When traffic overwhelmed the main site of Dallas Morning News on Thursday night, it updated readers with Twitter, Facebook Live, and a beta version of the site — Amid an unfolding crisis, Dallas's largest news source faced a crisis of its own. — An hour or so after shots were heard Thursday night …
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed:
Activist DeRay McKesson, Reporters Arrested In Baton Rouge Protest — Mckesson was streaming on Periscope during a protest when he was taken into custody. — Police arrested Black Lives Matter leader Deray Mckesson and two journalists during a protest against police violence in Baton Rouge Saturday night.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Economist expands beyond business and finance coverage with its year-old Films division — “Hello, I am Emily. I am 24 years old and I am from Belgium. This documentary is about my request for euthanasia because of mental suffering.” — So begins “24 and Ready to Die,” …
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google acquires Anvato, a platform used by broadcasters for encoding, editing, publishing and distributing video; the team will join Google's Cloud Platform — Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business. The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato …
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Sonali Prasad / Poynter:
How The New York Times used The History Project to create a multimedia timeline and share documents supporting a power plant investigation — By now, readers are familiar with the typical newspaper investigation: after months of digging, designers lay out thousands of words …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
News aggregation app SmartNews raises $38M Series D, led by the Development Bank of Japan, sources say at a post-money valuation of $500M-$600M — As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Univision sues Charter Communications for breach of contract and accuses it of paying under-market rates based on pre-merger Time Warner Cable deal — Media company accuses cable operator of using recent merger to try to pay lower rates — Hispanic media company Univision Communications Inc …
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