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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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@jamesliamcook, @telisdemos, @jamesliamcook, @newley, @labboudles, Business Insider and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
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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@propublica, @wmsc, @mariekshan, @janebsinger, @daviduberti, @dicktofel, Melville House Books, AOL and Washington Post
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
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New York Times, Broadcasting & Cable, Radio & Television …, Techdirt, Fortune, @mohlhausenftc, @ajitpaifcc and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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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@benmullin
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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