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10:00 AM ET, April 4, 2017

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Hyundai joins Mercedes-Benz in removing ads from Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor amid sexual harassment allegations against host Bill O'Reilly  —  Mercedes-Benz USA said it has “reassigned” advertising meant to run on Fox News Channel's “O'Reilly Factor” to other parts of the cable network's schedule …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Current and former employees at Fox News say women fear speaking up about sexual harassment and do not have faith company will enforce zero tolerance policy  —  Lawyer: Payouts are the ‘cost of doing business’ at Fox  —  There are women at Fox News who want to speak up.  But they're afraid.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Third black Fox News employee joins discrimination suit, alleges complaints about comptroller ignored because she “knew too much” about Ailes and Kranz  —  Fox News' legal woes just keep getting bigger.  This morning, another black female employee in Fox News' payroll department …
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Showtime picks up TV mini-series about the Roger Ailes scandal, called Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes, based on Gabriel Sherman's reporting  —  BREAKING: Blumhouse has launched an independent television studio with ITV Studios acquiring a 45 per cent stake.
Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky files sexual harassment suit against the network, Roger Ailes, and its current co-president Bill Shine
Business Insider:
AOL and Yahoo will be renamed Oath after the Verizon deal closes  —  When Verizon merges Yahoo with AOL after its acquisition of Yahoo closes, the newly created division will get a new name.  —  That new name is Oath, sources tell Business Insider.  —  In a deal that was announced in July …
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
Sources: Marissa Mayer will not be part of Verizon's AOL-Yahoo combined company Oath, which will be led by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong  —  The Yahoo CEO is on her way out, say sources, which is really no surprise.  —  According to sources, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will not be continuing …
Fashionista:
Condé Nast contract shows an option for freelancers to get paid faster than the standard 30 days if they accept a “small discount taken off the invoice”  —  Freelance writing is a lucrative gig for many reporters, photographers, models, editors and more in the fashion industry …
Discussion: Press Gazette
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
How a New York-based hyperlocal blogger, Katia Kelly, beat the New York Times to a scoop about one of Paul Manafort's real estate deals  —  Katia Kelly has lived in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn for three decades.  About ten years ago, when she was in her mid-forties …
Discussion: @sopandeb and @newyorker
Tony Romm / Recode:
White House confirms Trump has signed bill into law that allows ISPs to sell customers' browsing history without user permission  —  Internet providers will not have to ask permission before sharing sensitive data with advertisers.  —  President Donald Trump on Monday officially hit …
Arab News:
Arab News says columnist Andrew Bowen demanded removal of his pro-Clinton posts to help obtain a Trump administration job, and will discontinue his column  —  Arab News regrettably announces that it will discontinue publishing articles by US columnist Andrew Bowen.
BuzzFeed:
Over 60 fake news sites are still earning revenue from major advertising networks, including Google AdSense and Revcontent  —  “As long as the traffic is real and the ads are being served to real people," ad networks will accept fake news sites, according to one publisher.  —  BuzzFeed Open Lab Fellow
 
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Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Profile of Tucker Carlson, whose recent ascension at Fox News is one of the most unlikely comebacks in the annals of cable TV
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Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:
BH Media Group announces it has eliminated 289 jobs, including 108 vacant positions, to reduce costs
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Reuters appeared to retract a story about Jared Kushner being in Iraq, issued a tweet saying the story was wrong then deleted it
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Facebook, Craig Newmark, Mozilla, Betaworks, others help launch $14M global News Integrity Initiative administered by CUNY to improve online news literacy
 

 
From Techmeme:

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders that were set for April 9 due to concerns about Trump's tariffs but the June 5 launch date remains unchanged

Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Microsoft Copilot adds support for memory, personalization, web-based actions, podcast creation, camera and screen analysis, deep research, and more

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to release o3 and o4-mini “after all” and GPT-5 “in a few months”, citing challenges in “smoothly integrating everything”

 
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