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Sources: NFL and Amazon strike $50M deal to stream 10 Thursday night games to Prime members; price is five times that of NFL's agreement with Twitter last year — Deal for 10 Thursday night games will be available only to Amazon Prime members — Amazon is ready for some football.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Omidyar Foundation to give $100M over 3 years to support investigative journalism, fight misinformation, and counteract hate speech, with $4.5M going to ICIJ — The philanthropy established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar will contribute $100 million to support investigative journalism …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
18 companies including Allstate, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bayer have pulled ads from Fox News' O'Reilly Factor amid sexual assault allegations against Bill O'Reilly — O'Reilly accuser: ‘My voice is not for sale’ — Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it has “reassigned” its advertisements on …
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Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Julie Roginsky returns to Fox News less than 24 hours after filing sexual harassment lawsuit against the network, appearing on the show America's Newsroom — Julie Roginsky appeared on Fox News less than 24 hours after filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against the network …
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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
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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
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Behind the symbiosis between President Trump and CNN's Jeff Zucker, which thrives as the border between news and entertainment blurs — Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create. — At 3:58 on a recent Wednesday afternoon in Washington …
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Spotify signs new licensing agreement with Universal Music Group, will restrict new albums from Universal artists to its premium service for up to two weeks — As part of its new licensing agreement with Universal Music Group — Spotify has agreed to a new licensing agreement with Universal Music Group …
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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.
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Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
Law and Order: SVU episode inspired by the Roger Ailes scandal to air on April 26
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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 …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Sources: The Atlantic's White House correspondent Rosie Gray inked a $350K deal with Harper Collins for a book about Breitbart — The Atlantic's Rosie Gray is writing a book about Breitbart News, while Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green is working on one about conservative populism.
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Vanity Fair and The Daily Caller
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 …
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@sopandeb and @newyorker
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 — On Fox News, an unlikely star thrives in the tumult of Trump-era politics. — Tucker Carlson started wearing a bow tie in 1984, when he was in tenth grade at St. George's …
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