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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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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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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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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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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” …

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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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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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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Profile: Cosmopolitan editor Joanna Coles, a former Fleet Street reporter building the magazine's brand through reality TV, social media, and media appearances — In the back of a cab heading up Central Park West, Joanna Coles, the editor of Cosmopolitan, was telling the story of her first meeting …


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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The Economist experiments with “audiograms”, short audio clips with still image posted as videos on Facebook to promote podcasts — How video clips from our podcasts (huh? yes, really) help us find new listeners — Sometimes it seems podcasts and social media have a love-hate relationship.


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 …


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 …