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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, will leave the company in the coming weeks to focus on health-and-wellness startup Thrive Global — Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief to focus on health-and-wellness startup Thrive Global
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Source: Arianna Huffington is leaving the Huffington Post because Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo threatened her website's status as a dominant property — Hint: It rhymes with “Yahoo” — Arianna Huffington surprised the media world this morning when she announced that she was leaving the Huffington Post …
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German Lopez / Vox:
The Daily Beast reworks post about using Grindr in Olympic village in Rio after complaints reporter outed gay athletes, compromising their safety — The Daily Beast has a bizarre story in which reporter Nico Hines got a few dates on Grindr while stationed in Rio de Janeiro to cover the Summer Olympics.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Ten former employees shed light on Twitter's 10-year failure to stop abuse on its platform — Ariel Waldman ran out of options. Waldman, then a community manager and blogger, had signed up for Twitter in March 2007 and in months had become one of the platform's 100 most followed accounts.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Sources: in 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive replies to President Obama during a Q&A session — In 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Barack Obama during a Q&A session, sources tell BuzzFeed News.
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The Twitter Blog:
Twitter says BuzzFeed story contains “inaccuracies in the details” and “unfair portrayals” without offering specifics, pledges to continue making Twitter safer — In response to today's BuzzFeed story on safety, we were contacted just last night for comment and obviously …
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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
The last party before Gawker Media's bankruptcy sale felt like a giddy wake, with speeches by a still-defiant Nick Denton — Since its beginning in 2002, Gawker has been a veritable schadenfreude machine, taking delight in deflating the egos of New York's cultural elite, among other, perhaps less worthy, targets.
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Matt Drange / Forbes:
Ex-Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio, on verge of bankruptcy, due in Florida court today as Hogan lawyers seek more details about his assets — On Wednesday night, current and former Gawker Media employees gathered at the company's Manhattan headquarters to celebrate 14 years of independent journalism ahead …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Adblock Plus finds a way to block Facebook's new, supposedly unblockable ads, beginning what could be a long game of cat and mouse — Facebook's plan to stop ad blockers has already been foiled. Adblock Plus has found a way to strip ads from Facebook, even when they're served up in Facebook's new ad blocker-proof format.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: 21st Century Fox expects multiple settlements after Ailes allegations; number of accusers coming forward in internal investigation hits double digits — More women have come forward as the media giant carries out an internal probe — For 21st Century Fox, the controversy stemming …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: longtime friends and associates leaving Fox News following departure of Ailes
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Turner and Scripps Networks announce $45M investment in Refinery29, sources say at $500M valuation — Like we told you! — Dear Recode readers: Remember a month ago, when I told you that Time Warner's Turner unit had invested in Refinery29, the digital publisher focused on millennial women?
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Alex T. Williams / Pew Research Center:
The broadcast companies that were split from print divisions of Gannett, Tribune, and E.W. Scripps Co. show higher profit margins and stock prices — In the past two years, several media companies that own both print and broadcast properties have spun off their newspapers and other print products …
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Trump's use of ambiguous language lets him say whatever he wants and puts the onus of interpretation on reporters — Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona, on March 19, 2016. Photo by Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons. — Soon after Donald Trump kinda …
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