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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, Variety, @shaunking, @richarddeitsch, @deray, @sruhle, The Huffington Post and The Guardian
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New York Times:
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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The Guardian, TheStreet, @sheerinjude, @oliverdarcy, @farhip, @jackshafer, Washington Post and Quartz
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, Axios, @richarddeitsch, @jayrosen_nyu, @maggienyt, Business Insider, @maggienyt, @hadas_gold, @unmodisch, @ddale8, @ddale8, @anniekarni, @gadyepstein, @savannahguthrie, @levynews, @jayrosen_nyu, @savannahguthrie, @levynews, @kenvogel, @pauldemko, @alexem, @txhasson and PressThink
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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 via a senior note debt offering for “general corporate purposes,” which includes “content acquisitions, capital expenditures …
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus / The Nation:
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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@jwherrman, @thenation, @lmlauramarsh and @jayrosen_nyu
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
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
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
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
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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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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@katchow, @robenfarzad, @lourdesgnavarro and @rungomez