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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
How Fox News women took down Roger Ailes in 15 days to end a 20-year reign rife with misogyny, harassment, surveillance, smear campaigns, and hush money — How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media. — It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Melania Trump sues Mail Media, parent of Daily Mail, and Maryland blogger for defamation over articles about visas and naked photos; Mail retracts its story — Donald Trump's wife fires a shot at a “false” article about her journey to America. — Melania Trump, wife of the Republican nominee …
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The main Trump story by The New York Times on Wednesday was slow to update, in contrast with reporting team's other minute-by-minute updates — It was a fast-paced day for the team covering politics at The New York Times on Wednesday. — In the late afternoon, Donald J. Trump was playing …
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Patricia Hernandez / Kotaku:
Some YouTubers fret after being notified that some videos are not “advertiser friendly” and can't be monetized; YouTube says policy hasn't changed — Yesterday, popular YouTuber Philip DeFranco uploaded a video where he claimed that YouTube was ‘shutting down’ his channel due …
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Vice Head of Content Ciel Hunter sends memo pledging better management of freelancers after Columbia Journalism Review article about mistreatment — Vice's head of content outlined a series of steps to improve working relationships with freelance journalists in a memo Thursday responding …
Kerry Flynn / Mashable:
Twitter launches ad program for Periscope, starting with two sponsors for Andy Roddick's US Open coverage; live video won't have pre-roll or midstream ads — Twitter is opening up its live video app Periscope to more advertising. — Through Twitter's Amplify program …
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Abigail Williams / NBC News:
American freelance journalist Lindsey Snell has been held in a prison facility by Turkish authorities since August 7 for violating a military zone — A U.S. citizen and freelance journalist, Lindsey Snell, has been detained by Turkish authorities since August 7th, the State Department confirmed today.
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Google hires Kate Lanphear, former editor of Maxim, to help build out a mobile search and e-commerce product for New York Fashion Week — Google hired Kate Lanphear to help build out its new search product for fashion week, which includes “buy-now” capabilities.
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Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Brian Williams will debut “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” on September 6 at 11pm on MSNBC; it's unclear if the show will continue past November — Brian Williams has his own show again. — The former NBC Nightly News anchor will debut “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” …
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David Bond / Financial Times:
Mail Online, with the same owners as The Daily Mail, pushes for exemption to UK press rules for digital content generated overseas — Mail Online, the world's biggest English language news website, is leading a drive to amend UK press regulation so that content generated overseas is not overseen by British rules.
Reported.ly:
Reported.ly staff says goodbye as it suspends service after losing First Look Media funding; team looking for ways to keep working together in future — Today is officially the last day of reported.ly. Due to a loss of funding from our parent company, First Look Media …
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Source: Gawker Media president Heather Dietrick has signed as president of Jezebel, Gizmodo, Deadspin, Kotaku, Lifehacker and Jalopnik for Fusion Media Group — TRUMP'S TRIP TO MEXICO ... MINUS THE REPORTERS — Reporters were none too pleased that they weren't invited to come along …
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