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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
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New York Times:
Analysis shows WikiLeaks' high-profile releases often benefit Russia; US officials say WikiLeaks, Assange probably have no direct ties to Russian intelligence — American officials say Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks probably have no direct ties to Russian intelligence services.
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@glennthrush, @nytpolitics, Common Dreams, MediaFile, RT and The New York Observer
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Interview with Alex Marlow, the 30-year-old editor in chief of Breitbart News and the company's first hire, on Trump, media bias, and Andrew Breitbart's legacy — When the Breitbart media empire was just starting, and still being operated out of late founder Andrew Breitbart's basement, Alex Marlow was the first hire.
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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 …
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 …
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Interview with Nick Denton, on his family, adjusting to life in bankruptcy, the ongoing feud with Peter Thiel, and regrets from his Gawker days — Over lobster bisque, the founder of trailblazing gossip site Gawker talks about the fallout from outing a ‘tech lord’ and the backlash against too much truth
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Press Gazette and The Drum
Pew Research Center:
Pew: 65% of Americans have read a print book in the last year, while 28% have read an e-book, and 14% have listened to an audio book — Americans today have an enormous variety of content available to them at any time of day, and this material is available in a number of formats and through a range of digitally connected devices.
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook plans to limit ad placement for advertisers whose sites load too slowly or are not optimized for mobile — Social network will limit where and when ads appear if they point to slow-loading sites — Facebook wants advertisers to speed up their mobile websites and plans to limit …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MTV's Video Music Awards had 21M unique viewers on Snapchat, up 75% from last year; TV audience fell 34% to 6.5M — Viacom's MTV is still a TV brand, and the bulk of its revenue is still anchored in traditional television distribution. But the youth-skewing brand has been forced to spray …
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@jeffweiner
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Dish Network and Tribune Broadcasting reach long-term carriage agreement, expect channels to return today — Dish Network and Tribune Broadcasting announced a long-term agreement on carriage and retransmission content today. In a joint statement, the companies said the pact would last “for years to come.”
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Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News and Bloomberg
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
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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Washington Post, @quinnae_moon, @kottke and @ollie
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