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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Weinstein Company board says Harvey Weinstein on indefinite leave as it investigates sexual harassment claims; source says three other board members resigned — The board of the Weinstein Company announced that its co-chairman Harvey Weinstein began an indefinite leave on Friday …
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
A reporter recalls an altercation with Weinstein which turned violent and how many journalists, including David Carr, attempted to expose his behavior — I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment for more than seventeen years.
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CNNMoney:
The New York Times calls on Harvey Weinstein to release women who have accused him of inappropriate behavior from NDAs — Lisa Bloom: Harvey Weinstein knows he made mistakes — Facing the specter of a lawsuit, the New York Times is calling on Harvey Weinstein to release the women …
Axios:
In email to advertisers, Facebook says it'll manually review ads that target users based on politics, religion, ethnicity, or social issues before they go live — Facebook is going to require ads that are targeted to people based on “politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues” …
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Nicola Slawson / The Guardian:
Kim Wall murder: police find head of Swedish journalist — Divers find bags containing body parts and clothes of reporter who went to interview Danish inventor on submarine — Danish police investigating the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall have found body parts, including her severed head.
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Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
Profile of Giphy, which has 300M DAUs sharing 2B+ GIFs per day, major media partnerships in place, and hopes to shake up internet advertising — With 300 million daily users and every major media company as a partner, Giphy's got a feeling it can shake up the internet advertising business.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media announces 24-episode streaming video series, Divided States of Women, with an associated digital platform to come and an already-launched podcast — The 24-episode series, “Divided States of Women,” is hosted by Liz Plank and slated to debut this month.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Scammers pretending to work for The Atlantic target freelancers to gain access to bank and credit card info; law enforcement has been notified — The Atlantic has worked hard to build itself up as a prestigious outlet by showcasing long-form journalism, intellectual depth and rich photography.
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Ezra Marcus / The FADER:
A look at recently deleted alt-right aligned meme review channel thatistheplan by popular music vlogger Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop — He deleted the entire channel when we asked for comment about why it was so bad. — YouTube — The most famous music critic
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David Matthews / Times Higher Education:
Five academic publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley, and Brill, to send take-down notices to ResearchGate, claiming up to 40% of papers on site are copyrighted — Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale … Leading publishers are stepping up their fight …
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Kelsey Sutton / Mic:
Vice fires Broadly senior writer Mitchell Sunderland after BuzzFeed report connecting him to Breitbart and Milo — Vice has cut ties with a senior writer from its feminist vertical Broadly after a BuzzFeed report revealed that the writer pitched story ideas to then-Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos …
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Danny Sullivan:
Search Engine Land founder Danny Sullivan is joining Google to serve as a public liaison for search — When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long.
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