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Rupert Murdoch's 56-word memo on Bill Shine shows a continued focus on ratings and profits, without cleaning house of those who enabled Ailes — If ever there were an internal memo that said it all, a remarkably brief one from Rupert Murdoch to Fox News staff on Monday is it.
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Suzanne Scott, Fox News new president of programming, was accused of prompting Fox News employees and contributors to publicly disparage Gretchen Carlson
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sources: Sean Hannity has called a staff-wide meeting for all those who work on his show
Sources: Sean Hannity has called a staff-wide meeting for all those who work on his show
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@hadas_gold, Politico and New York Times
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CNN declined to air Donald Trump ad that contained graphic claiming mainstream news outlets are fake news — “Per our policy it will be accepted only if the graphic is deleted. Those are the facts," the network said. — For the most part, Donald Trump's new 30-second ad …
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Storyful and Moat debut Open Brand Safety, working with CUNY School of Journalism to catalog sites that spread misinformation, then share findings with brands — But first, how do we define quality—and crap? — Storyful and Moat—together with CUNY and our new News Integrity Initiative* …
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Nieman Lab, The Keyword, Ad Age, MediaPost, News Corp, @dangillmor and @craignewmark
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Sources: Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical, Yahoo's NBA site, to join ESPN after the NBA draft; ESPN intends to hire other The Vertical staffers — The writer and some of his team will join ESPN after next month's NBA draft. — Last week, ESPN cut some of its reporters and on-air personnel.
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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announces the 80th class of Nieman Fellows — The Nieman Foundation for Journalism, a leading global voice in journalism education and innovation, has selected 24 journalists as members of the Nieman class of 2018.
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@jbenton, @niemanfdn and @amlwhere
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Writers Guild of America, studios reach agreement including 15% increase in Pay TV residuals, ~$15M in increases in high-budget SVOD residuals, and more — It went down to the wire, and a little beyond, but the Writers Guild of America and major studios came to terms on a new contract early Tuesday …
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Disney launches Disney Digital Network, bringing its own brands and Maker Studios creators together under one umbrella — The Disney Digital Network will combine existing brands from the company, including Oh My Disney and Babble, with Maker talent and its gaming-focused Polaris network.
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Sources: Tucker Carlson signs two-book deal worth $9M with Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions — The book world's buzzing that Tucker Carlson has inked a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions worth $9 million, sources tell Page Six.
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@alexweprin, The Daily Caller and Hollywood Reporter
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After 18 years, About.com is rebranding as Dotdash and will launch a travel-focused vertical later this month — On Tuesday, About.com is going to change its name. The digital publisher is expected to announce at the Collision Conference that it will henceforth be known as Dotdash (pronounced “dot-DASH").
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@rafat and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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ESPN isn't dying, but its cable-TV business is declining as the cost of sports programming rises, meaning it will need to transition to a new business model — Last week, ESPN laid off 100 employees, including several well-known SportsCenter anchors and popular writers.
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Ex-NYT staff involved in the Pentagon Papers story are outraged at Spielberg's film on the scandal; scriptwriter says movie is primarily about WaPo's Kay Graham — God, it's been said, makes a lousy playwright. As far as an upcoming film that spotlights the Pentagon Papers is concerned …
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Chinese gov't recruits 20K people to author online encyclopedia with 300K+ entries, dubbed by an official as the “Great Wall of culture”, to go live in 2018 — The Chinese government is recruiting 20,000 people to create an online encyclopedia that will be the country's own …
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