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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, Vanity Fair, Jezebel, Deadline, Variety, The Wrap, @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, @melissabell, @mikehadgis, @agolis, @dubois and @jpoggi
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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@mlcalderone, @mathewi, @isaacdovere, @ericboehlert, @timobrien, @politico, @bgrueskin, @richarddeitsch, @will_bunch, @joepompeo and @michaelkruse
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 …
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
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
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
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
Alex Spence / BuzzFeed:
Britain's News Media Association calls on the government to examine Google and Facebook's impact on the UK media landscape, citing concerns about fake news — Lobbyists for the UK newspaper industry say the government can't keep ignoring the internet giants' growing influence over the news media.
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@janinegibson, @alexgspence, @alexgspence, @janinegibson, @alexgspence and @alexgspence