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9:55 PM ET, September 9, 2017

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Joseph Lawler / Washington Examiner:
Eric Bolling's 19-year-old son, Eric Chase Bolling, dies hours after Fox News announced it was parting ways with his father  —  The son of Eric Bolling, the former Fox News host released this week amid allegations of sexual harassment, died Friday night at the age of 19.
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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.
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)
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 …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Jeff Bezos mandates shift in programming at Amazon Studios toward high-end drama series with global appeal, like HBO's Game of Thrones  —  New series from Wong Kar-wai, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph reflect focus on buzzy shows with global appeal  —  The mandate from Jeff Bezos is clear: Bring me “Game of Thrones.”
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Spotify's bundle with Hulu highlights its earlier weakness in video and the potential for bigger TV brands to leverage Spotify's subscriber base  —  When Spotify and Hulu announced a joint effort this week to sell their streaming services at a combined discount rate to select markets …
Discussion: Consequence of Sound
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Analysis of Getty's top-selling image for keyword “woman” from 2007-2017 shows move away from stereotypes towards “gritty” shots, driven by Lean In collections  —  In 2007, the top-selling image for the search term “woman” in Getty Image's library of stock photography …
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.”
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
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.
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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