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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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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
The expulsion of Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes from Fox News indicates that James Murdoch is now in charge, and that the network will quickly begin to change — With the ouster of Roger Ailes and now Bill O'Reilly, Rupert Murdoch's son has overthrown his own network as he moves to reinvent …
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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
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Sources: Facebook is looking to hire a head of news products to combat fake news, but is having trouble finding someone with media and tech experience — The new role is proving hard to fill. — Facebook is looking to hire someone to head up its news products, a significant new role charged …
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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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Columbia Journalism Review:
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.”
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@daviduberti, @daviduberti, @daviduberti and @daviduberti
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.
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@andrewwinston and @dfirgs
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.
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Washington Post, Vanity Fair, @coryschouten, New York Post and Folio
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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Digiday, @tomgara, @mkarolian, Mashable, @towcenter and Net Worked
Tony Romm / Recode:
FCC removes restrictions on ISPs raising prices for firms that need a dedicated connection, changes how TV station groups calculate their footprint — Republican Chairman Ajit Pai delivers some wins for AT&T, Verizon and a few players in the broadcasting industry.
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 …
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RT, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and The Daily Caller
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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TechCrunch and Fortune, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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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@emmaladyrose, @dangillmor and @lpolgreen
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