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CNN's Alisyn Camerota tells how she was sexually harassed and then bullied by Roger Ailes when she worked at Fox News; Ailes' attorney denies claim — For a long time Alisyn Camerota was reluctant to describe the dark side of working at Fox News. — She respects many of her former colleagues.
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Sources: seven more black Fox News employees plan to join racial discrimination suit filed last month — The Murdochs hoped firing Bill O'Reilly would signal a changing culture at Fox News. “We want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environment built on the values …
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Media Matters for America, @sruhle and @richarddeitsch


Inside the generational change at News Corp, as James and Lachlan Murdoch consolidate their power and try to modernize the company culture — Since taking over two years ago, James and Lachlan Murdoch seem determined to rid the company of the old-guard culture on which their father built his empire.
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Washington Post and Quartz


Inside the new power dynamics at Fox, Breitbart, and The Wall Street Journal in the wake of Trump's victory — The right-wing media won the presidency—but lost control of their audience. Inside the new power dynamics roiling Fox, Breitbart and the Wall Street Journal.
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@politico, New York Magazine, @joepompeo, @mcorley, @elianayjohnson, @elianayjohnson, @mathewi, @anthony, @moorehn and Axios


Inside the ritualized warfare between the White House and the press, as potential for real conflict with media lurks below the surface — The president puts on a big show of assaulting his “opposition” in the news media. But inside the White House, it's a different story.


Yahoo's fate is a sign of what's to come for businesses including news organizations that rely heavily on digital ad revenue — Yahoo filed its final quarterly report this week. And just like that, the once-mighty tech firm is exiting public trading. — The company has been unraveling …
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@mediatwit, @drclarkipresume, @lauraelizdavis, @kevindgrant, @ryanbeckwith, Ad Age and The Week


A critique of Julius Krein's American Affairs, the Trump-inspired quarterly journal that is seeking to help build a new post-liberal intellectual vanguard — Last February, an anonymous cohort of conservative writers, their bylines purloined from antiquity, started a group blog they described as the …
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@thenation and @jayrosen_nyu


The Guardian confirms it has stopped publishing its articles to Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles — Publishers aren't happy with the deal platforms are cutting them. Now, the Guardian has dropped both Facebook's fast-loading Instant Article format and will no longer publish content on Apple News.
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@jamesburgos, @nixxin, Fortune, 9to5Mac, @mikeisaac, @nbj914, @jackmarshall, @maxwillens, @joshspero and @lmoses, more at Techmeme »


YouTube says 12M videos, including those with LGBTQ+ topics, are now available in Restricted Mode after fix, adds way to report videos wrongly excluded — YouTube today claims to have fixed an issue with its service that was causing it to incorrectly filter content in “Restricted Mode” …
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YouTube Creator Blog, Engadget, Mashable, YouTube Creator Blog, @ewerickson, @icguild, @lizthegrey, The Daily Beast, The Wrap, Fortune, Adweek, Gizmodo and Variety, more at Techmeme »


Sources: Facebook is offering publishers a monthly sum in exchange for a minimum amount of produced video, to host mid-roll ads — The new deals include a mix of both live and produced video commitments. — Facebook wants to pay publishers to create more produced video as part of a plan …
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@rafat, @pkafka, @taylorbuley, @profcarroll and @edmundlee, more at Techmeme »


The Sun prints apology for Kelvin MacKenzie's column that compared mixed-race Everton footballer Ross Barkley to a gorilla — Former editor, who compared mixed-race Everton footballer to a gorilla, was suspended by newspaper — The Sun has published an apology to Ross Barkley …
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@far_right_watch, ESPN FC, TheJournal.ie, Balls.ie, The Independent, JOE.co.uk, BBC, Yahoo! News, London Evening Standard, Telegraph, The Drum, Sport and Independent.ie


In relentless tweeting since Inauguration Day, Louise Mensch has accused at least 210 people or organizations of being under Russian government influence — Since last November's election, the former British politician Louise Mensch has transformed herself into the leader …
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@maggienyt, @bernstein, @joelnihlean, @louisemensch, @sethabramson, @profjeffjarviss and @christianstork