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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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Variety, Deadline, The Wrap, @shannonpareil and @emilysteel
Brendan O'Connor / Jezebel:
Gothamist deleted critical stories about its new owner, Joe Ricketts, from its sites; co-founder Jake Dobkin says the decision did not come from Ricketts — DNAinfo, the local-news organization owned by right-wing billionaire Joe Ricketts, announced today that it has purchased Gothamist LLC …
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New York Times, @sdkstl, @_grendan, @bgrueskin, @carlzimmer, @anthony and @dangillmor
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
DNAinfo, owned by Republican mega-donor and Trump backer Joe Ricketts, has acquired the Gothamist network of sites; deal believed to be in low seven figures — DNAinfo, a local news company owned by the Republican mega-donor and Trump backer Joe Ricketts, will announce Wednesday morning …
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Gothamist, Observer, PR Newswire, Adweek, @bportseasoning, @thecitywanderer, @joepompeo, @anthony, @djacobs, @willsommer and @willsommer
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 …
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New York Times, @jonfavs, Paste and Fortune
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Facebook launches Facebook 360, a hub for 360-degree photos and videos available only on Samsung Gear VR — Facebook has devoted major resources and billions of dollars to virtual reality, but there has been a pretty clear line between what happens in the main Facebook app and what happens on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.
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Facebook, Softpedia News, Android Police, The Next Web, Adweek, The Drum and VentureBeat
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
21st Century Fox replies to UK culture secretary concerns over Sky takeover offer, says Fox's record of infringements of UK broadcast rules is irrelevant — The Murdoch family's US media giant 21st Century Fox has said that concerns over its record of compliance with UK broadcasting standards are …
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The Guardian, Financial Times and Variety
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
CNN hires ex-White House Communications Director Jason Miller as a contributor — Jason Miller, a former top aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign and his transition team, is joining CNN as a paid contributor, effective today, POLITICO confirmed. — Business Insider's Oliver Darcy …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
About 54% of US adults say they have Netflix in their household while 53% have a DVR, according to LRG's annual on-demand study — Netflix has hit a new milestone: More U.S. television households now have the streaming service than a digital video recorder, according to a recent study.
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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 …, @richardbtonkin, @cjciaramella, @jasonleopold and @rcfp
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
In a talk at Columbia J-School, The New Yorker's chief fact-checker, Peter Canby, discussed how the magazine's processes have changed in the ‘post-truth’ era — This past year, the Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as its word of the year in a nod to the idea that objective facts …
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@rachaelbrown, @cjr, @shelleymiranda and @jamcnn
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
Morning Consult:
Morning Consult/Politico poll: 50% of Americans think it's inappropriate for reporters to cite anonymous sources, yet 41% of government employees disagree — Half of Americans think it is inappropriate for journalists to cite anonymous sources in their reporting, and many think reporters are simply making up those sources.
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TheBlaze, @davisusan, @mlcalderone, @jesselagreca, @ajchavar, @jerweber, @jmart181, @hadas_gold and @jillgeisler
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
The company behind Jim Brady's Billy Penn, Spirited Media, is merging with news startup Denverite; Brady will lead the new company, also called Spirited Media — After combining with Denverite, the company behind Billy Penn and The Incline hopes to prove its events-heavy model can work in a dozen or more cities.
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Denverite, @jcstearns, @shansquared, @slynnsnyder, @andyknny, @dnvrite, @sarahanne_news, @ckrewson, @jbenton and @jimbrady