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Jessica Goodfellow / The Drum:

Bauer Xcel Media relaunches FHM online after magazine ended publication last year, positions it between the “too clickbait” LadBible, and “too niche” GQ — Bauer Media Group is relaunching FHM as an online-only brand after the magazine shut up shop last year …

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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:

New Orleans-based local news site, The Lens, which launched a speakers bureau in 2014, says it earned $10K in speaker fees during 2015 — If you're good at something, the saying goes, never do it for free. — It's advice that The Lens has taken to heart.

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Horror movie maker Jason Blum to produce TV mini-series about Roger Ailes based on Gabe Sherman's unflattering book The Loudest Voice in the Room — LOS ANGELES — The former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is coming back to television, but perhaps not in a way he will like.

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LeEco is launching LeEco Live, a US video service in partnership with MGM, Lionsgate, Vice, and publication partners Cosmopolitan and Esquire — After much pomp and circumstance around ecosystems and philosophy, LeEco finally debuted something new at today's massive press conference in San Francisco.

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