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New York Times:
Investigation finds Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have paid about $13M over the years to address complaints from five women about Bill O'Reilly's behavior — About $13 million has been paid out over the years to address complaints from women about Mr. O'Reilly's behavior. He denies the claims have merit.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: claims against O'Reilly were considered in his recent contract renewal talks; to settle claims, one source says O'Reilly paid $10M and company paid $3M — The host of 'The O'Reilly Factor' denied the merits of claims that he had sexually harassed employees, according to 21st Century Fox
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Mediaite, Variety, @brianstelter and @danharmon
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: next week, a grand jury in Manhattan will hear new testimony in a federal investigation of Fox News that had been led by Preet Bharara — In the months after former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes resigned last summer, it appeared that the sexual-harassment scandal that brought down the powerful Fox chief would be short-lived.
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@nymag, Politicus USA, @mlcalderone, Business Insider, Washington Post, @gabrielsherman and @gabrielsherman
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they don't sell customers' personal web browsing history, in response to cancellation of new FCC privacy rules — Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon published blog posts this morning responding to the backlash they've been receiving since Congress voted to revoke …
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Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
News outlets teamed up to request, gather, and publish obfuscated financial disclosures of White House staff — The Trump administration on Friday made available the financial disclosures of some White House staff. The documents show, among other things, that President Donald Trump's appointees are indeed quite wealthy.
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New York Times, @ericuman, Adweek, Politico, The Week, @ericliptonnyt, @propublica and @jayrosen_nyu
Isaac Webb / Global Voices:
Russian Web Censor Cracks Down Ahead of Next Anti-Corruption Protests — Russia's prosecutor general requested on Friday that Roskomnadzor, the state agency responsible for censoring media, block websites it said are inciting public disorder by inviting people to join a rally scheduled be held in central Moscow on Sunday.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Turkish court decides to release at least 19 journalists, jailed after July 2016 coup attempt, then reverses its decision — Istanbul's 25th Court for Serious Crimes ordered the release pending trial of at least 19 journalists jailed in the aftermath of the July 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey …
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The Globe Post, DW.COM, PR Newswire and Financial Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Two journalists who believe they are on the so-called “kill list” of individuals targeted by the US for deadly drone strikes are suing Trump — Two journalists who believe they are on the so-called “kill list” of individuals targeted by the U.S. for deadly drone strikes …
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AOL, @freedomofpress, @andrewdfish, The Week, @ggreenwald, @joshgerstein and @darshnasoni
Aaron Hicklin / Out Magazine:
Profile of Lydia Polgreen, the new Huffington Post editor whose background as a queer black woman of limited means makes her a refreshing presence in journalism — The last time Lydia Polgreen felt boredom — real boredom, the soul-crushing kind — she was 21 and working for a company …
Jason Alcorn / MediaShift:
Q&A with Tracy Clark on an experiment by Reynolds Journalism Institute and the Austin American-Statesman on personalized newsletters, filter bubbles, and more — The email newsletter in 2017 is a core product for national newspapers, digital media brands, platforms …
Stephen Hiltner / New York Times:
How New York Times letters editor Thomas Feyer picks 10 to 15 letters a day from roughly 1K submissions, which have seen a surge since the election — They pour in around the clock, roughly a thousand a day: from poets and bricklayers, from politicians and psychiatrists, from laypeople and Nobel Prize winners alike.
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Associated Press:
Police raid offices of Belsat TV in Belarus and confiscate equipment after its coverage of protests — MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Police in authoritarian Belarus are searching the offices of a Polish satellite TV channel that has given extensive coverage to a recent wave of anti-government protests.
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