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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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@f**ktrumpblotus, Mediaite, @sparksjls, @brianstelter, @danharmon, Variety and Axios
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
O'Reilly accuser Wendy Walsh to hold press conference today, as her attorney describes Fox News as “the Bill Cosby of corporate America” — Wendy Walsh to speak out Monday following revelations of settlements with five other women totaling about $13 million.
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@usmc701952, The Week, The Wrap and Washington Post
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Facebook, Craig Newmark, Mozilla, Betaworks, others help launch $14M global News Integrity Initiative administered by CUNY to improve online news literacy — A global coalition of tech leaders, academic institutions, nonprofits and funders, including Facebook, Mozilla and Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark …
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CUNY Graduate School …, BuzzMachine, Facebook Media, @brizzyc, Axios, @steverubel, VentureBeat, @brianstelter and Adweek, more at Techmeme »
Poynter:
Tow Center's 25K word report details the issues with increasing social media platform influence on news publishers, suggests avenues to explore for remedies — Facebook and other platform companies publishing news are forces for bad journalism not good, despite some well-intended efforts lately to help media companies.
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Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Lab, The Guardian, @mtaibbi, @lauraelizdavis, @emilybell, @benedictevans and Fortune
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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The Daily Beast, Politico, @patrick_hruby, @parkermolloy, New York Times, @propublica, Adweek, @ericuman, Politico, The Hill, @ericliptonnyt, @jayrosen_nyu and The Week
Peter Orsi / AP News:
Norte, a newspaper in Juarez, Mexico, says it is shutting down due to the climate of insecurity and impunity for killings of journalists — MEXICO CITY (AP) — A newspaper in the Mexican border city of Juarez announced Sunday that it is shutting down due to the climate of insecurity …
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JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS, @peter_orsi and @ajcorchado
Saurabh Sharma / Nieman Lab:
Profile of Rocket Post Live, a subscription-based local news alert service in rural India, and how it grew to 8K paying subscribers in one year using WhatsApp — Shivendra Gaur's Rocket Post Live has already gained 8,000 paying subscribers for rolling news alerts and a daily video bulletin.
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@carmen_ngkaman, @mbp817, @sruthijith and @aprylboomhour
Politico:
Playbook: April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, joins CNN as a political analyst — IT'S OPENING DAY! The Washington Nationals face off against the Miami Marlins at 1:05 p.m. at Nationals Park. Email us and let us know who is playing hooky!
Peter Kafka / Recode:
YouTube to start letting outside firms like DoubleVerify and comScore audit its efforts to avoid controversial ad placements — In an interview with Recode, Philipp Schindler, Google's top business exec, walks a fine line. — A top Google executive says the company's YouTube ad controversy …
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The Guardian, Digiday, @pkafka, @pkafka, New York Times and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
In S-Town, the new Serial podcast spinoff, journalist Brian Reed illuminates the reportorial experience of following through on tempting tips — In 2014, the true-crime podcast “Serial” began like this: A tipster asked a radio journalist to investigate a murder.
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@iraglass, @thisamerlife, @nytimes, New Yorker and The Guardian
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Mark Harris, whose experience in entertainment reporting and cultural criticism gives him valuable insight into Trump — EIGHT YEARS AGO, Mark Harris began research on his second book. It would tell the story of five Hollywood film directors who left behind families and careers …
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@bypetevernon, @robbiereviews and @coreyatad
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