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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Two lawyers for Ailes badmouth journalist Gabriel Sherman ahead of an expected New York Magazine piece, calling his reporting a vendetta — Facing multiple allegations of sexually harassing female employees along with lawsuits from two of his accusers, to say nothing of advising Donald Trump …
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Yardena Schwartz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Sources: Vice failed to pay freelancers and promised assignments then rescinded them, used fixers for help on stories without intending to pay them — In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like disposable cogs of news production, Vice appears to be in a league of its own.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Washington Post publishes raw materials of its reporting for Trump biography, including transcripts of 20 hours of interviews — The Washington Post recently published a new biography of Donald Trump, for which the Republican nominee sat for more than 20 hours of interviews. (Still, Trump didn't care for it much.)
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
GateHouse New England, which owns 100+ newspapers in Greater Boston, cutting 40 jobs through layoffs and buyouts, amid organizational restructure in September — GateHouse Media New England, which owns more than 100 daily and weekly newspapers in Greater Boston and its environs …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Three Facebook Trending curators say system that fed them stories failed to improve, user testing feedback of bare-bones new version was overwhelmingly negative — How Facebook's foray into automated news went from messy to disastrous. — It seems Facebook's human news editors weren't quite as expendable as the company thought.
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media agrees to sell Chicago's Tribune Tower to LA-based developer CIM Group for up to $240M — The Tribune Tower as seen from Pioneer Court on July 31, 2014. — Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group has agreed to buy Tribune Tower for up to $240 million, marking the end …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS All Access ‘Ad-Free’ Video Subscription Option Will Still Carry Commercials in Live TV — CBS has launched a “commercial-free” option for its All Access subscription-video service, priced at $9.99 per month - but it won't be entirely without ads. — While the 7,500-plus episodes …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
As Arianna Huffington leaves HuffPo on Sept 1, she leaves a legacy of journalism marred by conflicts of interest; reporters were punished for negative stories — Arianna Huffington needn't worry about her central place in the brief history of Internet journalism.
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South China Morning Post:
China bans entertainment news that promotes Western lifestyles, rules reports must comply with Communist party ideologies — Beijing has forbidden reports of entertainment news that promote “Western lifestyles”, poke fun at traditional Chinese values and cultural classics, such as mythical heroes …
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Julia Boorstin / CNBC:
Source: Twitter expands Amplify Publisher program to individual video creators, giving them 70% of ad revenue, better than YouTube and Facebook's terms — Twitter is trying something new to boost its stagnating user base: Luring content creators to post on Twitter by giving them an easy way to earn money from their videos.
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Comedy franchise Smosh aired a live, 80-min comedy special on YouTube on Friday night, generating nearly 58K concurrent viewers, 1.3M views as of Tuesday — While many creators focus on Facebook Live, Defy chose YouTube for its 80-minute-plus video stream featuring two commercial breaks
Steve Safran / LostRemote:
University of Oxford study: 28% of 18-24 year olds cite social media as main news source, compared to 24% who cite television — The 18-24 crowd has used the internet as its primary source for news for several years. Now it is specifying “social media” as its main source of news …
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