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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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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: James and Lachlan Murdoch say Bill O'Reilly should leave, but Rupert Murdoch is resisting even as ad revenue falls and as review of Sky takeover looms — With only six days remaining in Bill O'Reilly's vacation, the pressure on the Murdoch family to decide the embattled commentator's fate is intensifying.
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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.
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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.
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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 — 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 — 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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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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Amanda Hess / New York Times:
YouTube's shift to prevent ads from appearing on extremist videos also squeezes revenue for independent media producers — At the age of 21, David Pakman started a little Massachusetts community radio talk program. While the young broadcaster got his show syndicated on a few public radio stations …
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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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@anthony, @mlcalderone and @poynter
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.
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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.
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@eriqgardner and Forbes
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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