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2:50 PM ET, April 20, 2017

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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.
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: Adweek, @andrewwinston and @dfirgs
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 …
Tony Rehagen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Companies publishing slick city magazines sell at lower prices than in earlier years but have diversified revenue and remained committed to long-form journalism  —  On my first day of work, at my first job in city magazines, Champagne was served in the lobby.
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 …
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
 
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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
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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
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Sources: Snapchat working with politicians in France ahead of national election to create content that includes Q&A with candidates, geofilters on how to vote
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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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

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