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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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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 …
Oliver Roeder / Slate:
The New York Times Thursday crossword by Ben Tausig was a unique Schrödinger puzzle with a special theme, containing the first use of the phrase “gender fluid” — The story behind a very special puzzle. — Crossword puzzles are fleeting things.
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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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@cmatiash and @knightfdn
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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Silvia Higuera / Journalism in the Americas:
Local and international journalists faced detentions, vandalism of offices, and censorship as they tried to cover Venezuelan protest — A day of demonstrations in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas ended with complaints of restrictions on freedoms of the press and of expression …
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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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Stephen Koff / Plain Dealer:
Appeals court panel denies stay that let Backpage.com avoid turning over internal documents to Senate investigators — BackpageEscortsCleveland21March2012.jpg — Ads on Backpage.com, a classified-ad website that Sen. Rob Portman says appears to be complicit in helping pimps and traffickers sell sexual services of minors.
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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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@medialab, @kaidiekmann and @fastcodesign