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4:40 AM ET, July 11, 2016

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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” …
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
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 …
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” …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and Jezebel
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Tech Portal and brandchannel
Jenni Reid / Medium:
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.
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 …
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 …
 
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Economist expands beyond business and finance coverage with its year-old Films division
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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
Joaquin Sapien / ProPublica:
Podcast: Mother Jones' reporter Shane Bauer on his time as an undercover prison guard
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Hyperlocal news venture Examiner.com ceased publishing July 1, will take down website July 10
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Michael Kan / PCMag:
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time

 
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