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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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Media Matters for America:
Media Matters president Bradley Beychok calls for immediate investigation, considering all legal options after report Fox sought out reporter's phone records — Fox News sought the phone records of Media Matters senior reporter Joe Strupp through “legally questionable means” …
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Reena Flores / CBS News:
Moderators for three presidential debates will be NBC's Lester Holt, CNN's Anderson Cooper, ABC's Martha Raddatz, and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace — The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) revealed Friday the moderators for the three presidential debates between Hillary Clinton …
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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
A dozen former Breitbart employees say Steve Bannon used sexually charged language, ordered hit pieces, tried to sabotage their employment prospects, more — Former Breitbart employees paint a scathing portrait of Donald Trump's new campaign chief. — Stephen Bannon, the combative chairman …
Olivier Laurent / TIME:
The increasing popularity of mobile apps like Snapchat and Instagram is sparking a demand for vertical photography across media organizations — “We are increasingly thinking mobile first.” — Not too long ago, vertical imagery was the mockery of the online photo world. The criticism came from everywhere.
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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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Meg Miller / Co.Design:
MIT develops DeepStream, a news annotation tool allowing journalists to embed information about a live video alongside it as it plays — Tools like Facebook Live have been instrumental for breaking news—but until now, there's been no way to contextualize them.
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
Justice Department says it will approve Nexstar's $4.6B acquisition of Media General after Nexstar divests seven TV stations — Nexstar Broadcasting's shares are up more than 2% today after the Justice Department said that it will approve the company's $4.6 billion acquisition of Media General once it divests seven TV stations.
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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.
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 …
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