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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Fox News confirms it has parted ways with host Eric Bolling, after allegations he sent inappropriate texts, including photos of male genitalia to colleagues — The news comes a month after HuffPost reported he sent unsolicited lewd texts to female colleagues.
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Fox Business anchor Charles Payne is returning to his program after the end of internal sexual harassment review — Charles Payne, shown on the air at the Fox Business Network studios in New York in April 2015, is returning to Fox Business. (John Lamparski / Getty Images)
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Max Willens / Digiday:
As push notifications increase, publishers like Bustle, CNN, and The Guardian are increasingly encouraging readers to customize them — Publishers have had a hard time getting mobile app users to personalize their notifications, so they're trying new tacks.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist is increasingly using Asian chat app Line, which can drive as much traffic as Facebook, by posting a diverse range of stories to its ~1M followers — Since starting to post to the popular Asian app Line in January 2016, The Economist has grown its following to nearly 1 million in several countries.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Snap partners with four college papers for Campus Publisher Story section in Discover tab, will split revenue, and says it'll add 24 more over next three months — Student papers from Berkeley, Texas A&M, Wisconsin and Syracuse are coming to Snapchat. — Snapchat is partnering with a new set of publishers: College newspapers.
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Owner of ShareBeast song-sharing site, Artur Sargsyan, pleads guilty to copyright infringement, will be sentenced Dec. 4, could face 5 years in prison — Artur Sargsyan, the owner of the massive song-sharing site ShareBeast, has pleaded guilty to copyright infringement, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced on Friday.
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook is willing to spend $1B through 2018 on original video for its platform, a dramatic increase on its current video deals — Social-media giant could spend as much as $1 billion to cultivate original shows for its platform — Facebook Inc. FB .65% is loosening its purse strings …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Profile of Rotten Tomatoes, which some blame for a 15% YoY downturn in summer movie ticket sales, examining editorial process, blowback from movie studios, more — LOS ANGELES — Hollywood had a horrible summer. — Between the first weekend in May and Labor Day, a sequel-stuffed period …
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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
TraceMe, founded by NFL star Russell Wilson, raises $9M led by Madrona, with Jeff Bezos participating, to connect celebrities with superfans via in-app content — As Russell Wilson describes the ethos of his new startup, it feels like you're inside his Seahawks huddle, driving down the field in the fourth quarter.
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
CBS says Hillary Clinton will appear on Colbert's Late Show on 9/19 to promote her new book, What Happened, and talk about her 2016 campaign — “What happened,” you ask? — Whether or not you will have read Hillary Clinton's upcoming book of that title by Sept. 19, she will take to television …
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Ethics experts says Breitbart paying Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who runs Trump's voter fraud panel, breaks federal conflict of interest rules — “If you're getting paid by somebody to write about your official duties, that seems to me a clear problem," an ethics expert says.
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Basil Enan / The Official Medium Blog:
Medium adds curated articles from The New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and others to its premium membership program — Members can enjoy curated selections from The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, and more
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Mark Warner and experts raise idea of regulating political ad spending on Facebook similar to broadcast radio and TV — Facebook is facing a new push to reveal how its vast power is being used after it disclosed that roughly $100,000 worth of political ads were purchased on its platform …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook needs to acknowledge its power, including through paid-for disinformation, during the US election
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