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4:50 AM ET, September 9, 2017

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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)
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
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.
The Daily Beast:
Theoretically, how many people could Russians reach with $100K in Facebook ads? Up to 70M in the US, if smartly targeted  —  Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Mark Warner and experts raise idea of regulating political ad spending on Facebook similar to broadcast radio and TV
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with NYU professor Rodney Benson on his new paper, “Can foundations solve the journalism crisis?”, about the limitations of American nonprofit news sites  —  “The potential for nonprofits to offer a radical alternative to commercial media is being lost.”
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 …
Shraddha Kakade / Poynter:
Examining the ethics of an Indian journalist's undercover interview of a soldier, who died six days after the publication of a story  —  An Indian journalist faces criminal charges after a soldier she interviewed without his knowledge committed suicide earlier this year.
Discussion: @nujournalism
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 …
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 …
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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UK's Trinity Mirror, publisher of Daily Mirror, says it is in talks to acquire all publishing assets of Daily Express owner Northern & Shell
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
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Graham Ruddick / The Guardian:
News Group settles 17 cases related to allegations of criminality at the Sun, many with celebrities; next round of cases expected in January
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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Marvel and Star Wars titles will be streamed exclusively on its new service when it launches in late 2019
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

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Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
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