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1:05 PM ET, April 20, 2017

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USA Today lost 12M followers on Facebook after the social media company broke up an extensive fake account scam  —  Image via Pixabay.  —  USA Today last week reported that Facebook was breaking up an “extensive fake account scam” targeting publisher pages with false “likes.”
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Source: Bill O'Reilly will receive a payout of $25M, equivalent to one year's salary, as part of his exit settlement with Fox  —  Read next … Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News star who was fired this week amid a burgeoning sexual harassment scandal, will receive a payout of $25m …
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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.
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 …
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Huffington Post:
Bloomberg launches ClimateChanged.com, a site for coverage of how rising global temperatures are changing the planet and moving financial markets  —  Get ready for @climate.  —  NEW YORK Over the past two years, corporate giants have become some of the loudest voices calling for climate-change action.
Discussion: @andrewwinston and @dfirgs
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 …
Jon Sharman / The Independent:
Russian journalist and Putin critic Nikolai Andrushchenko, co-founder of the Novy Peterburg newspaper, dies after being beaten by unknown attackers  —  Nikolai Andrushchenko, 73, was co-founder of the Novy Peterburg newspaper  —  A Russian journalist known for his criticism of President Vladimir Putin …
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.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Fortune, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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 …
 
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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
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
German media company Axel Springer, owner of Business Insider, takes a stake in Uber for an undisclosed sum
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Bloomberg collaborated with Postlight on a browser extension which annotates articles with extra contextual information
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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
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
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Headlines becoming increasingly critical at Breitbart as Bannon's influence in the White House declines
Rem Rieder / Columbia Journalism Review:
How two producers are urgently working to finish a film 4 years in the making about Gene Roberts, the legendary editor who transformed The Philadelphia Inquirer