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Peter Kafka / Recode:
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.
Meera Jagannathan / New York Daily News:
Suzanne Scott, Fox News new president of programming, was accused of organizing retaliation campaign against Gretchen Carlson over her allegations against Ailes — Newly promoted Suzanne Scott mobilized Fox Newsers to bash Gretchen Carlson amid the ex-host's sexual harassment claims …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sources: Sean Hannity has called a staff-wide meeting for all those who work on his show — Fox News anchor Sean Hannity is calling a staff-wide meeting for everyone who works on his television show, according to people close to his show. — The meeting comes as speculation …
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Some employees saw Ailes lieutenant Bill Shine's presence as sign 21st Century Fox wasn't serious about culture reform
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Rupert Murdoch statement: Fox News co-president Bill Shine resigned, replaced by Suzanne Scott, president of programming, and Jay Wallace, president of news
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
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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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
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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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Twitter unveils 16 streaming partners for its live video service, including BuzzFeed, The Verge, Viacom, WNBA, MLBAM, PGA, Bloomberg, and Live Nation — Last year: NFL. This year: Bloomberg, the WNBA, Live Nation and our friends at The Verge. — Yesterday, Twitter announced it was building …
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David Gilbert / Vice News:
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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Max Willens / Digiday:
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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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
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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Michael Schulson / Undark:
Publisher of Nautilus, award-winning science magazine and website, admits they are having cash flow problems and are late paying contributors — Funding shortfalls at the luxe science magazine have left some contributors waiting months to be paid. They may need to wait a little longer.
Thomas Vinciguerra / Columbia Journalism Review:
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 …
Dawn Rhodes / Chicago Tribune:
Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University says it will not pursue renewed accreditation beyond this school year because the process is “flawed” — Northwestern University's main campus in Evanston. — In a nontraditional move, officials at Northwestern University's …
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