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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 …


NBC's Katy Tur describes a bizarre year with Trump on the campaign trail, with name calling, waves of harassment on social media, and little sleep — The presidential hopeful has insulted reporter Katy Tur on national TV, called her names during interviews, and made his campaign seemingly impossible to cover.


TV ratings for Olympics on NBC down nearly 20% from London games as media viewing habits change — In the weeks before the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, NBC officials believed that the prime-time audience for its 17-day event would match or exceed that of the London Games four years earlier.
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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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Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz sentenced to three years in prison for insulting the Supreme Leader, and propaganda against state — A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced the prominent Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz to three years in jail on August 8 for “insulting the Supreme Leader” …
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Time Warner's Turner invests $45M in Refinery29 to expand site's digital reach; Scripps Networks Interactive is also participating in the investment — Turner continues looking outside the TV box for new investments in original video content. The Time Warner company is leading …
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Sources: longtime friends and associates leaving Fox News following departure of Ailes — What began with Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit ends with — well, actually no one knows how this story will end. — Just about every day brings new allegations about the behavior of ousted Fox News boss Roger Ailes.
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