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Tyler Kingkade / BuzzFeed:
Interview with UVA dean about school's stance on sexual assault to be allowed in Rolling Stone libel case as the magazine tries to prove it acted without malice — As the defamation suit over Rolling Stone's botched campus rape article goes to trial, the magazine wants to show …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Rolling Stone deleted an article about the NBA and domestic violence on Friday, after the NBA disputed a number of assertions in the piece — Rolling Stone quietly removed an online article about the NBA and domestic violence on Friday, two days after it was published, POLITICO has learned.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Billy Bush's Departure From ‘Today’ Is Now Official — As of Monday, Billy Bush is no longer with NBC's “Today” show, the program's supervising executive said in a note to staffers. — “Billy Bush will be leaving the Today show's 9 a.m. hour, effective today,” said Noah Oppenheim …
Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
Money.net hires former Bloomberg exec Norman Pearlstine to build a news feed based on machine-generated news bulletins as low-cost alternative to data terminals — A start-up looking to take on the financial information behemoth Bloomberg L.P. is hiring a former Bloomberg executive to begin a new financial news service.
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Sam Levin / Guardian:
Judge rejects riot charges for journalist Amy Goodman after oil pipeline protest — Authorities had issued a warrant for her arrest after Democracy Now! host filmed guards for the Dakota access pipeline using dogs and pepper spray on protesters — A North Dakota judge rejected prosecutors' …
Columbia Journalism Review:
Center for Public Integrity: journalists, including The New Yorker's TV critic Emily Nussbaum, have donated $382K to Clinton's campaign, $14K to Trump's — New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, a Pulitzer Prize winner, spent the Republican National Convention pen-pricking presidential …
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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Netflix beats expectations, adding 3.2M global subscribers vs. 2M expected and 370K domestic subscribers vs. 304K for the quarter; stock up over 20% after hours — Netflix is finally breaking off from its slowing subscriber growth trend as it posted a huge quarter that beat both its own, and Wall Street's, expectations.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Interview with New York Times public editor Liz Spayd, four months into the job, on representing readers, affecting change, false balance, and more — Liz Spayd had an upset stomach. — “Maybe it just goes with the job,” she said, barely picking at an abstemious lunch of undressed salad …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK's Press Association's EIC says the news agency is to start exploring the use of robot journalists to produce stock market reports, sports, election coverage — Press Association is to begin looking at using robot journalists to report some sport and news stories in the next few months.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
With 5M MAUs, streaming startup Pluto TV raises $30M at $140M valuation from ProSieben, Scripps Networks, others to expand to Europe, buys Berlin-based Quazer — Pluto TV, a video streaming service targeting cord cutters by offering a TV-guide like experience that connects you to hundreds …
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
If Vice News Tonight's stylized interpretation of the news draws more interest to current events, it will be a worthwhile addition to the media landscape — VICE News Tonight correspondent Arielle Duhaime-Ross reporting from Nunavut, Canada for an upcoming segment on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
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Financial Times:
Sources: Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner approached Aryeh Bourkoff, founder of investment bank LionTree, about setting up a Trump TV network post-election — Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has informally approached one of the media industry's top dealmakers about the prospect …
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Matt Pressberg / The Wrap:
Netflix is abandoning plans to launch in China for now because of challenging regulations, but will still license content to existing online service providers — Netflix has decided to drop its plan to launch in China for now, the streaming service announced during its third-quarter earnings report after markets closed Monday.
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