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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
Immediacy, intimacy, mass reach, and influence on media show the power of Facebook Live and other streaming services
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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” …
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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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 …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How 3 publishers plan to use Snapchat Memories to improve the quality and shelf life of their output — The feature, which Snapchat unveiled on Wednesday, lets users upload, save, and repurpose photos and videos. — Snapchat on Wednesday unveiled Snapchat Memories, a new feature …
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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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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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David Folkenflik / Television : NPR:
Profile of Bloomberg TV morning show anchor David Weston and his past as an ABC News president — As president of ABC News, David Westin oversaw coverage of the Clinton impeachment, the September 2011 terrorist strike, U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the financial crisis.
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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