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Sources: Fox News personality Juliet Huddy accused Bill O'Reilly and a Fox News executive of trying to derail her career when she rejected their sexual advances — In the weeks after Roger Ailes was ousted as the chairman of Fox News in July, amid a sexual harassment scandal …
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Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Sources: Fox News quietly agreed a settlement with ex-host Juliet Huddy who lodged sexual harassment allegations against O'Reilly and Fox's new co-president — LawNewz.com has learned that in the midst of the fallout from Roger Ailes' ousting, Fox News came to a very quiet settlement arrangement …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNNMoney:
Harper Collins pulls Trump's national security pick Monica Crowley's book from sale until sourcing is added after 50+ passages were found to be plagiarized — Publisher HarperCollins said Tuesday that it will stop selling a book by Monica Crowley that a CNN KFile investigation found to have more than 50 instances of plagiarism.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
US AG nominee Jeff Sessions says he hasn't studied current guidelines for investigations involving media, won't commit to not jailing journalists — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Tuesday at a confirmation hearing to become the country's next attorney general that he has not studied …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Following Trump's request to Congress to investigate the leak of an intelligence report to NBC, attorneys say there's little precedent for such a move — On Friday morning, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted a request for House and Senate intelligence committees to investigate the leak …
Telegraph:
Clare Hollingworth, the former Daily Telegraph correspondent who broke the news that WW2 had started, has died aged 105 — Clare Hollingworth, the former Daily Telegraph correspondent who broke the news of World War Two, has died aged 105. — “The FCC is very sad to announce the passing …
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Breitbart News hires WSJ's John Carney to lead finance and economics section focused on “economic populism”, launching soon after January 20 — In a bid to expand its influence in the era of Donald Trump, Breitbart News, the crusading populist-right website that was an early champion …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Jim VandeHei, CEO of news startup Axios, on crafting news for other platforms, developing a subscription business, hiring non-journalists, more — “I look at Axios as a rolling R&D lab,” Jim VandeHei, chairman and CEO of the new venture, said in a Q&A.
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Ex-HLN host Nancy Grace launches crime news site, Crime Online, and daily podcast, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace — Television personality and former prosecutor Nancy Grace on Tuesday launched a new digital media venture that aims to be the one-stop-shop for those interested in crime news.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sir David Clementi appointed Chair of BBC's unitary board, which replaces BBC Trust; Clementi was preferred candidate despite lacking broadcasting experience — Former deputy governor of Bank of England will lead BBC's new unitary board, which will replace BBC Trust
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New York Times:
NYTimes.com adopts HTTPS for homepage, mobile site, articles published in 2014 or later, TimesVideo, and more — We are thrilled to announce that we have begun to enable HTTPS on NYTimes.com, an effort that helps protect the privacy of our readers and ensures the authenticity of our content.
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Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Backpage shuts down adult section, citing government pressure and unlawful censorship campaign; the move followed a scathing Senate report on the site — One of the world's largest classified ad websites closed its adult ads section in the United States, claiming to be the victim of a government witch hunt.
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