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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
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 and RT
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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Financial Times:
Sources: Liberty Media in advanced talks to acquire 10-15% stake in F1 racing franchise for £1B-£2B, with 21st Century Fox's Chase Carey to become chairman — Liberty Media, the cable TV group owned by John Malone, is closing in on a deal to take a significant stake in Formula …
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Hollywood Reporter, Sky News, Motorsport.com, Broadband TV News, Advanced Television, Reuters and The Drum
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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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