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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


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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@mikehadgis, @agolis, @dubois and @jpoggi


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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@bgrueskin, @politico, @will_bunch, @michaelkruse and @joepompeo


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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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
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Observer, PR Newswire, Gothamist, Adweek, @bportseasoning, @thecitywanderer, @joepompeo, @anthony, @djacobs, @willsommer and @willsommer


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 …


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


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


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


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


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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TrekMovie.com


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


At a conference in Jerusalem, CNN Chief Exec Jeff Zucker criticized the political establishment for remaining silent on Trump's attacks on the press — The president of CNN has described the political establishment's silence — over President Donald Trump's attacks on the media as “shocking”,
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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