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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
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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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
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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@gabrielsherman, Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post, Variety, @shaunking, @deray, @sruhle and @richarddeitsch
Politico:
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.
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Washington Post:
Sources: Trump said he won't fire Sean Spicer as press secretary because “the guy gets great ratings” and likened his press briefings to a daytime soap opera — During a small working lunch at the White House last month, the question of job security in President Trump's tumultuous …
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Mediaite, @ashleyrparker, The Daily Caller, @ashleyrparker, The Wrap, Axios, The Week and Politico
Hadas Gold / Politico:
President Trump to hold reception Monday for conservative media, including One America News Network, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, and columnists and radio hosts — President Donald Trump will welcome members of the conservative media for a small reception at the White House on Monday.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
On press freedom threats, First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams worries most about the Espionage Act and leak investigations, and says Trump's tweets may help — Last Monday, the sun rose in the east, the black-capped chickadee sang its spring mating song and President Trump attacked American journalists in a tweet.
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@tackettdc, @jimrutenberg and Business Insider
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Google adding TV ad inventory to DoubleClick Bid Manager, letting advertisers measure video campaigns across digital media and linear TV — With viewing habits shifting from the living room environment to multiple online platforms spread throughout the house and elsewhere …
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MediaPost, DoubleClick Publisher Blog, TechCrunch, AdExchanger, Motherboard and The Drum
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Some companies, including AOL, BuzzFeed, and Fullscreen, have pulled out of NewFronts or scaled back their plans considerably — Some executives wonder whether the stream of events, where digital media companies pitch advertisers on their web video content, has lived up to its billing
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@jason_kint, @michaelkuntzjr and @joshsternberg
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
How Univision is betting on affiliate sales to grow Gizmodo Media Group's revenues while migrating most digital properties to the Kinja CMS — What was Gawker? A trailblazing, piercer of pretense? A snarky, vestigial leftover of the early bloggy web? A company that early on understood …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Boston Globe's health and life science news site, STAT, is launching a print tabloid and is in talks with other metro newspapers for reprints — The health and life sciences site is in talks with other newspapers about republishing its coverage in print.
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@linda_pizzuti, @rafat, @inkkr and @dankennedy_nu
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix to raise $1B through debt offering to fund new content and other “strategic transactions” — Netflix has announced that it intends to raise €1 billion — a smidgen more than $1 billion (USD) when converted at today's rate — via a senior note debt offering for …
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Elizabeth Jensen / Commentary : NPR:
Ombudsman: despite the company-wide initiative for diverse hiring, NPR's newsroom diversity numbers have shown little progress in the past five years — Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of NPR's newsroom staff is a publicly acknowledged priority from top management on down.
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