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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Sources: 21st Century Fox reaches $2.5M+ settlement with former Fox News contributor who alleged she was sexually assaulted by a Fox News Latino exec in 2015 — Last summer, as it wrapped up multiple settlements after the Roger Ailes sexual harassment scandal, Fox News and its parent company …
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TVNewser, TVWeek.com, Vanity Fair, Jezebel, Deadline, The Wrap, Variety, @shannonpareil and @emilysteel
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Condé Nast joins NBCU and Vox Media to sell ads across their combined digital properties and to compete against big ad platforms like Facebook and Google — Brands Can Now Buy Digital Inventory Across All Three Media Companies — Conde Nast is joining NBC Universal and Vox Media …
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Fast Company, Fortune, @bankoff, @mikeacase, @agolis, @dubois, @jpoggi, @melissabell and @mikehadgis
Corinne Grinapol / Adweek:
Recode hires Politico's Tony Romm, as a senior editor of policy and politics, and Bloomberg's Rani Molla, as the publication's first data editor — They'll be senior editor, policy and politics, and data editor, respectively — Recode EIC Dan Frommer announced two editor hires this morning …
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@karaswisher, @lock, @chrisgeidner, @edmundlee and @byersalex
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sources: following a shakeup in editorial leadership, The Daily News has toned down its anti-Trump coverage because it was costing the paper subscriptions — For most of 2016, the New York Daily News was America's paper of opposition to Donald Trump. But in the months since the election …
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@gilbertcruz, @ericboehlert, @timobrien, @politico, @bgrueskin, @richarddeitsch, @will_bunch, @mlcalderone, @joepompeo, @michaelkruse, @mathewi and @isaacdovere
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Snapchat renews Peter Hamby's national political news show, “Good Luck America,” available now in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia — Snapchat is launching the second season of “Good Luck America,” its political news show hosted by former CNN reporter Peter Hamby …
Lincoln Archer / ABC News:
Australia's ABC News has attracted 1M subscribers to its Apple News alerts in the past six months — (ABC News cracked 1 million subscribers to its Apple News alerts with this message. The stories selected and the tone of the messages is tailored to the audience which likes to use this platform to get their news - Photo: ABC News)
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@lincoln_archer, @abcnews and @tothevictor
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
A case study of Russia's RT, seen by some as a propaganda vehicle feeding the far right and viewed by staffers as a refreshing alternative to Western media — LONDON — The London newsroom and studios of RT, the television channel and website formerly known as Russia Today …
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@stevenleemyers, @alissanyt, @stephenswsj, @justinhendrix, @cliffordlevy and @gdebenedetti
Adam Thomas:
Four European publishers, El País, The Guardian, Le Monde, and Spiegel Online launch The New Arrivals, a long-term project tracking migrants settling in Europe — Back in December, I was asked to contribute to Nieman Lab's Predictions for 2017 series and I wrote this about the coming collaboration across Europe.
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@datatheism, @gijn and @ejcnet
Agence France-Presse:
Reporters Without Borders has launched a center to protect women journalists in Afghanistan — Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday launched a centre to protect women journalists in Afghanistan, the second most dangerous in the country for the profession after Syria.
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Ariana News, Reporters Without Borders and Al Jazeera English
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Gary Winnick of Global Crossing takes majority stake in concert streaming service Qello, first step in creating a platform to capitalize on online TV surge — The founder of former telecommunications company Global Crossing Inc, Gary Winnick, has acquired a majority stake …
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@jtoonkel
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
At shareholder meeting, Disney CEO Bob Iger defends ABC News coverage and his ties to Trump's policy forum, and also applauds the adversarial role of US media — “I don't believe my membership in that group in any way endorses or supports any specific policy of the president or his administration," Iger told shareholders.
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Washington Post and Business Insider
C.J. Ciaramella / Hit & Run:
NSA files motion to delay releasing FOIA docs to Jason Leopold, cites his extensive litigation, second only to NYT in filing FOIA suits against govt in 2016 — BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold is a prodigious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requester who files hundreds …
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United States District Court …, @rcfp, @cjciaramella, @jasonleopold and @richardbtonkin