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11:35 AM ET, April 19, 2017

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Source: O'Reilly, Fox News reps are talking about an exit; 21st Century Fox board meeting planned Thursday, and one source says O'Reilly will be a primary topic  —  Fox News will no longer even respond to questions about whether Bill O'Reilly will return to his show.
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Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
New Bill O'Reilly accuser, a clerical worker who says she had a desk near his office in 2008, says he called her “hot chocolate”, grunted, and leered  —  Another woman is telling Fox News her story of harassment at the hands of O'Reilly, according to attorney Lisa Bloom.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: Fox News executives are preparing to announce Bill O'Reilly's departure before he returns from vacation on April 24  —  The Murdochs have decided Bill O'Reilly's 21-year run at Fox News will come to an end.  According to sources briefed on the discussions, network executives …
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
Tony Romm / Recode:
Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO, launches USAFacts, a site that integrates data from US government budgets, similar to a company 10-K  —  The former Microsoft CEO debuts USAFacts to make it easier to understand how tax dollars are spent.  —  Let's presume that the United States is a company.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
At F8, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the Cleveland video controversy, acknowledging the company needs to do more to filter violent content  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged Tuesday that the company has to do more to not only filter out violent videos, but also do its part from preventing violence altogether.
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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
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.
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 …
Discussion: @mlcalderone, @anthony and @poynter
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Bloomberg collaborated with Postlight on a browser extension which annotates articles with extra contextual information  —  Just how rich is Jeff Bezos?  If you're at your keyboard, the answer is just a Google search away: $75.6 billion.  But if you're swiping through an article …
Nico Lang / Columbia Journalism Review:
LGBTQ publications see rise in popularity as people seek support, information, and comfort during Trump presidency  —  Everything was quiet in New York City the day after the 2016 election.  The city was stunned into silence.  Matthew Breen remembers people crying randomly on the street, comforted by friends and strangers.
Discussion: @daviduberti and @cjr
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, and Charles Harder have attempted to quash an investigation into how Thiel funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker  —  Hulk Hogan and Charles Harder also object to a discovery demand from the administrators of Gawker's bankrupt estate.
Discussion: @eriqgardner and Forbes
 
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