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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Despite assurances by executives after Ailes' departure, culture has not changed at Fox News — Throughout Fox News Channel's summer of discontent last year, executives at its parent company, 21st Century Fox, assured reporters that the young, up-and-coming corporate leadership …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
O'Reilly's “hotline defense” is ludicrous: a Fox News culture of fear would prevent a sexually harassed woman from calling an internal hotline — Whatever happens to Bill O'Reilly's career, one aspect of this unrelenting story line at Fox News deserves to be put to rest forever.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify is considering directly listing its shares on a public exchange in September, instead of a traditional IPO — Music-streaming service considers a direct listing, bypassing the typical public-offering script — Music-streaming service Spotify AB is readying an initial public offering that is expected by year-end.
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Mará Rose Williams / Kansas City Star:
How student reporters at a Kansas high school dug into the background of a new principal and found questionable credentials, causing her to resign — Days after student reporters at Pittsburg High School in Kansas dug into the background of their newly hired principal and found questionable credentials …
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How ProPublica responded to the White House press secretary's insult by defending its journalism and promoting its work in tweets, boosting followers 10% — Journalists often agonize over how to tweet, and rightly so. For many of us, Twitter is the most personal point of contact with audiences.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
As the number of advertisers who have dropped The O'Reilly Factor reaches more than 40, Bill O'Reilly and Fox News remain quiet — Brown: Time for Fox to clean shop — Bill O'Reilly's future at Fox News is the number one topic among Manhattan media executives, entertainment agents and journalists.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Verizon is primed to become ad-tracking giant and take full advantage of an impotent FCC, using consumer data without permission, as it's done with supercookies — Zombie adtech is coming to kill Google — Two seemingly unrelated things happened Monday that actually point directly at the future of the internet:
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Washington Post:
FCC's Ajit Pai and FTC's Maureen Ohlhausen on why FCC's ISP privacy rules were bad, and how FTC's authority to police ISPs' privacy practices will be restored
FCC's Ajit Pai and FTC's Maureen Ohlhausen on why FCC's ISP privacy rules were bad, and how FTC's authority to police ISPs' privacy practices will be restored
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Russia's Sputnik hires former Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan to launch a radio show — A former Breitbart News writer is launching a radio show for Russian propaganda network Sputnik. — “I'm on the Russian payroll now, when you work at Sputnik you're being paid by the Russians …
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Franziska Kues / Poynter:
Blendle, the Dutch pay-per-story news service, has landed undisclosed investments from Nikkei and INKEF Capital a year after its debut in the United States — Blendle, the Dutch “iTunes for news,” has landed new investments from Financial Times owner Nikkei and Amsterdam-based investment fund INKEF Capital …
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube's $35/mo TV streaming service debuts in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Bay area, with 4 major networks, 40+ cable channels — Young people in the United States have already made the switch from traditional television to streaming services.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh dined with Trump at the WH on March 23; source says Fox's Jeanine Pirro also had dinner at the WH a week before Trump endorsed her show on Twitter — President Donald Trump, who often spends weeknights alone cooped up in the White House, has recently wined and dined some of the biggest names in right-wing media.
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@alexweprin, @isaacdovere, @yashar, @jdawsey1, National Review, @benjysarlin, @ddale8 and BuzzFeed
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
From January 2001 to September 2016, US newspaper publishers lost over half their employment, from 412K to 174K jobs — The information industry consists of businesses that publish information through traditional forms of media such as newspapers, periodicals, and books, as well as electronically over the Internet.
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