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Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Harvey Weinstein has hired lawyers including Lisa Bloom and Charles Harder ahead of expected New York Times and New Yorker stories about his behavior — The Hollywood mogul has enlisted a team of attorneys to fight planned articles that are said to be about his personal behavior.
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Variety, The A.V. Club, @becket, IndieWire, @raminsetoodeh, @mattdrange, @tylerkingkade, @brentalang and Mediaite
Kelsey Sutton / Mic:
Amid a flurry of false news reports related to the Las Vegas shooting, Newsweek retracts a story about the shooter's girlfriend — Newsweek has retracted an article that made a number of claims about the female companion of Stephen Paddock, the man who shot and killed at least 58 people …
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Newsweek, New York Times, iMediaEthics, The Wrap, Business Insider, Washington Post, Taste of Country, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, The Week, NPR and AOL
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed says its AM to DM Twitter show drew about 1M unique viewers each day after it launched last week — Twitter's making a big push into live video, with deals for pro sports, talk shows,network TV premieres and more. But what does a real newscast look like if you rethink it for Twitter?
Discussion:
@mekosoff and @antheabutler
Variety:
Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly announces it is moving its headquarters from New York City to Los Angeles by March 2018 — Brent Lang — Senior Film and Media Editor @BrentALang FOLLOW — Brent's Most Recent Stories — Go west, venerable magazine.
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The Wrap, Crain's New York Business, WWD, MediaPost and TVWeek.com
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook and Google, both immensely wealthy, need to step up with serious solutions to weaponized disinformation — (Eugene Garcia/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE) — Well-intentioned warnings to journalists were circulating early this week as the news of the Las Vegas massacre broke.
Discussion:
Business Insider, @hankgreen, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, @harrymccracken, @zeynep, @canmediacouncil, The Verge and CNN, more at Techmeme »
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Nielsen ratings fall for TV premiere week as more viewers watch on delay: CBS down 15%, Fox down 14%, NBC down 11%, ABC down 1% — Even ABC's new hit “The Good Doctor” could not stem the bleeding of viewers during the broadcast networks' premiere week of the 2017-18 television season.
Discussion:
VideoInk
Kris Cheng / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
Hong Kong-based anti-Communist magazines Cheng Ming and The Trend cease publication; source says closure due to recent death of founder Wen Hui at age 96 — Hong Kong-based anti-Communist magazine Cheng Ming has announced that it will cease publication after 40 years in print.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Newsroom employees at the LA Times are trying to form a union, a move which could aggravate relations with the paper's parent company Tronc — Newsroom employees at The Los Angeles Times are trying to form a union, setting up a potential clash with the newspaper's parent company, Tronc.
Discussion:
The NewsGuild - CWA, Splinter, @danielmarans, @mayalau, @melbournecoal and @laura_nelson
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The News Integrity Initiative gives $1.8M to 10 projects focused on increasing trust in news — “The flip side of disinformation is trust.” — More community involvement in investigative reporting. New messaging tools to increase contact between journalists and readers. Better comments.
Discussion:
BuzzMachine, cronkite.asu.edu, Dan Gillmor and @dangillmor
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
TV trade group accuses Facebook of inflating number of young users throughout US; FB says counts may include visitors, tourists, and users who misreport age — As Facebook grapples with the cascading fake news issue, the company is also increasingly facing charges from advertising groups …
US Press Freedom Tracker:
TYT cameraman Ty Bayliss and reporter Jordan Chariton arrested in St. Louis protest on highway, detained for about 20 hours despite press badges, released — Ty Bayliss — a cameraman and editor for the progressive online news organization The Young Turks — was arrested along …
Discussion:
@brianstelter, @jordanchariton, @tytpolitics, @jordanchariton, @missjupiter1957, @uspresstracker, @thewaywithanoa and @cenkuygur
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Facebook's Watch videos are being viewed an average of 23 seconds — Early data suggests that Facebook's Watch is getting viewers to spend more time watching videos. But Facebook still has a long way to go to achieve the levels of retention that top video creators and publishers can get on YouTube.
Benjamin Landy / Vanity Fair:
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson sidesteps question on whether CNN President Jeff Zucker will remain after AT&T-Time Warner deal — Amid rumors that CNN's leadership could be a sticking point in the Justice Department's approval of the AT&T-Time Warner merger, Zucker's future at the news network remains unclear.
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