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Number of plaintiffs claiming racial discrimination and harassment at Fox News rises to 13 as anchor Kelly Wright joins suit, alleging involvement of Bill Shine — Fox News still under grand jury probe — Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs …


Anthony Noto says Twitter is aiming to air live video 24 hours a day, every day inside its apps and site, will pitch handful of shows at NewFronts next week — Get ready for nonstop live video inside Twitter. — The company, which reports first quarter earnings Wednesday …
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Macron campaign in France refused to give accreditation to RT France and Sputnik and fights back against hackers aiming at campaign and news media — PARIS—Looking back on the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton last year, one sees an appalling passivity and helplessness …
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Twitter beats Q1 estimates with $548M revenue and 328M MAUs, up 9M QoQ and 7M more than expected, says DAUs up 14% YoY; stock up 11% in pre-market trading — Twitter's business is shrinking, but not as much as Wall Street expected — Twitter just had its best quarter of user growth since early 2015.
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With 73 percent of internet publishing jobs based in Boston-NY-DC or West Coast corridors, the US media bubble is real and growing more extreme — We crunched the data on where journalists work and how fast it's changing. The results should worry you. — How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell?
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Inside Zuckerberg's and Facebook's evolving approach to misinformation and filter bubbles, now that the issues have been more openly acknowledged — Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped start. But is the most powerful tool for connection …
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Google allows users to report offensive autocomplete suggestions and Featured Snippets, will show more authoritative content for obscure and infrequent queries — Google knows it has a search quality problem. It's been plagued since November with concerns about fake news …
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Reuters Institute study: widespread consumer adoption of VR is still years away as news organizations face investment obstacles — “I'm afraid that more and more people in news organizations use 360 for stories that are not interesting. Bad content will keep people away from watching it."
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NYT reporter Glenn Thrush says Trump's press conferences are more democratic than Obama's were and that he's better at reaching out to individual journalists — Glenn Thrush of the New York Times made a surprising claim about President Donald Trump in relation to his predecessor, Barack Obama …
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The Huffington Post has rebranded as HuffPost and has redesigned its site, opting for a tabloid style evocative of the New York Daily News in the 1970s — “The splash is really the best of our editorial voice...In thinking about who we are, this is the best reflection of it from a product perspective."
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Snapchat Discover launches in Germany with Vice, Spiegel Online, Bild, and Sky Sports as publishing partners — Vice, Sky Sports, Spiegel Online and Bild have signed up to become Snapchat's first partners for its Discover platform in Germany. — The messaging app has launched …
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Gannett reports Q1 print ad revenues down 17.7% YoY, local digital ad revenue up 3.7%, and mobile digital ad revenue up 39.2% — Warnings were that the first quarter of 2017 would be about as bad financially as the final two of 2016 for newspaper organizations.
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The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill — The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill, a move that would have given …


In the Trump era, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has started beating Fox News in the key 25-54 demographic which determines advertising rates — Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels. But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.
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Bill O'Reilly speaks publicly for first time since Fox News departure, says he will host daily podcast, free until Thu., then only available to Premium Members
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