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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Bill O'Reilly will not return to Fox News, 21st Century Fox confirms in a statement — The anchor has hosted the No. 1 show in cable news for 15 consecutive years. — Weeks after revelations surfaced that Bill O'Reilly settled several sexual harassment claims - leading to an advertiser exodus …
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Henry Chu / Variety:
In a letter, Lisa Bloom, the attorney representing some of O'Reilly's accusers, urged UK regulator Ofcom to reject 21st Century Fox's bid for Sky — The eyes trained on the scandal over Bill O'Reilly aren't just American ones. As Rupert Murdoch weighs the Fox News host's fate …
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Sources: after Bill O'Reilly's ouster, Fox executives say that more women with stories of harassment will come forward publicly — Insiders say that the troubles at Fox news are only just beginning. — Inside the divided Fox News bunker, many seasoned executives are wondering if they are living in an alternate universe.
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google plans to introduce ad-blocking in Chrome, considers blocking all ads on sites with ads that don't meet Coalition for Better Ads' standards — Filter could strip out ads that provide bad experiences for users — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is planning to introduce an ad-blocking feature …
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Kurt Gessler / Medium:
Chicago Tribune examines 15 months of Facebook post data and finds solid user growth but diminished organic reach — Starting in January of this year, we at the Chicago Tribune started to anecdotally see a fairly significant change in our post reach. — We weren't seeing a huge difference …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Advocacy organizations partner to launch US Press Freedom Tracker, to track press freedom incidents in the US; it will be led by reporter Peter Sterne — A coalition of advocacy organizations including the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Index …
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
High school students who exposed their incoming principal's false credentials get invited by the Huffington Post to the White House Correspondents Dinner — Since this year's White House correspondents' dinner is all about journalism, and not about the celebrities who have in recent years threatened …
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / GQ:
Interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper, on covering Trump, Bannon, relations between Obama's White House and the Press, and being targeted because of his work — With the leader of the Free World now waging a self-styled war with the media, no journalist on TV has become more indignant …
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Joe Murphy / London Evening Standard:
George Osborne, incoming editor of the London Evening Standard, has announced he's stepping down from his other role as Conservative MP “for now” — George Osborne today announced he is quitting as an MP but will carry on “fighting for that Britain I love” as editor of the Evening Standard.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
How a false story about a husband and wife being twins, published on the hoax site the Mississippi Herald, ended up on major news websites — Isn't everyone supposed to be on alert for fake news? — A husband and wife go to a fertility clinic. As part of the treatment process …
Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE:
Flipboard expands video content, offering video ads and partnering with ABC News, CNBC, Hearst Digital Media, and others — In its first big foray into video, the news aggregation app and website Flipboard Inc. today launched video packages from major publishers and said it will let advertisers run industry-standard video ads.
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Spain's El Diario is building customized customer relationship software to help create communities around topics and then to encourage readers to subscribe — The Spanish news outlet is investing in tools and research to encourage readers to pay for its journalism
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook still is neither specific nor serious enough about violence on its platform and about its status as a media company — Facebook's existential crisis arrived with a vengeance this week. But Mark Zuckerberg didn't want to talk about it much. — Yes, as he took the stage Tuesday …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
At F8, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the Cleveland video controversy, acknowledging the company needs to do more to filter violent content
At F8, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the Cleveland video controversy, acknowledging the company needs to do more to filter violent content
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