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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Inside Fox News, staffers express frustration that the investigation into the retracted Seth Rich story remains unresolved — Lawsuit puts Seth Rich conspiracy inside the West Wing — It has been more than two months since Fox News retracted its story about the death …
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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Sources at ad agencies say a lack of analytics, disinterest of influencers, and other factors are driving clients from Snap, exacerbated by Instagram's strength — - Several agencies said advertiser interest in Snapchat is flat to dwindling, as many opt to move towards Instagram.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook-Google duopoly over online advertising has survived multiple challenges, such as Snap's rise, increasing worry among publishers and some advertisers — For well over a year now, the digital advertising and publishing industries have grappled with the growing power of Google and Facebook …
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Trade group predicts US TV antenna sales will rise 7% in 2017 to nearly 8M units as millennial cord cutters discover free TV signals — Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
HBO security contractor says hackers stole “thousands of internal documents” in addition to episodes and have leaked personal info of a senior HBO executive — The HBO hack may have been worse than the initial leaks of a few unaired TV show episodes suggested.
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BuzzFeed:
A look at MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin and NBC Nightly News writer Bradd Jaffy, who have amassed large Twitter followings by posting breaking news constantly — At 7:36 a.m. on May 18, Time executive editor Matt Vella tweeted the magazine's weekly cover, an image perfectly engineered …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tronc reports Q2 net income of $6.8M on $370M revenue; digital ad revenue fell 9% YoY, and total ad revenue fell 15% YoY; digital subs grew 22% in Q2 to 220K — Tronc Inc. experienced a rare decline in unique visitors in the second quarter of this year, off 9 percent compared to the same period in 2016.
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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Politico published full transcript of WSJ's interview with Trump, after paper only ran excerpts; transcript shows friendly chat between Trumps, WSJ EIC Baker — The Wall Street Journal got a sit-down interview with the President of the United States on July 25 as he was engaged in a war …
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Julia Dahl / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reflections on writing for the New York Post and how reporter and subject interactions, for the sake of clicks, shape society's perception of news media — A man waiting at a New York City intersection reads a copy of the New York Post. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Financial Times union members unanimously vote to strike if necessary in order to urge the news outlet to fix pay inequities — Journalists at the Financial Times have unanimously backed a union motion calling on management to “put its money where its mouth is” and fix the gender pay gap at the paper.
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Vicky Ward / HuffPost:
Fired White House comms chief Anthony Scaramucci speaks out about his rant to The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, claims “spirit” of the chat was off the record — Anthony Scaramucci tells HuffPost about the highs and lows of his fiery stint at the White House and what that cuss-filled rant was really about.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Plex brings its Live TV streaming service and DVR to Apple TV and Android, adds “time-shifting” feature to pause, rewind, and fast-forward through live TV — Plex today is taking its Live TV service, including its DVR, out of beta, while also expanding to Apple TV and Android …
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