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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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Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed:
Activist DeRay McKesson, reporters arrested in Baton Rouge protest Saturday, charged with obstructing highway; McKesson has since been released on bond — Mckesson was streaming on Periscope during a protest when he was taken into custody. — Police arrested Black Lives Matter leader Deray Mckesson …
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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” …
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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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
New public editor says The New York Times needs to listen more to reader preferences, habits, and shifting ways of consuming information to expand audience — MOST journalists I've worked with have a reflexive aversion to interacting with readers. They subscribe to the view that editors …
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
War correspondent Marie Colvin was deliberately targeted and killed in 2012 by Syrian military, claims a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Colvin's heirs — American war correspondent Marie Colvin was deliberately targeted and killed by artillery fire in 2012 at the direction …
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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.