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11:30 AM ET, October 9, 2017

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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Harvey Weinstein has been fired from The Weinstein Company, effective immediately, the board announces in statement  —  Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced cofounder and CEO of The Weinstein Company, has been fired effective immediately, his board of directors said on Sunday.  —  The statement said:
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
In Hollywood, celebrities, agents, and producers are staying silent about the sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein  —  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Movie potentates were peppered across the Tower Bar here as usual on Friday night.  Over in one dimly lit corner sat a martini-drinking movie star and his manager.
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
The Wrap's Sharon Waxman shares how a story she wrote in 2004 for the New York Times about Weinstein's sexual misconduct was gutted  —  A whole lot of fur has been flying since last Thursday, when The New York Times published a game-changing investigative story about Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct …
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Source: New York Magazine had a story on Weinstein but killed it after he met with EIC Adam Moss; NY Mag denies this, says the story was insufficiently sourced  —  New York magazine had the Harvey Weinstein story — or nearly had it — a year ago but didn't run anything after the movie mogul …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Washington Post:
Google finds Russian-bought ads worth tens of thousands of dollars on YouTube, Gmail, DoubleClick, that were part of effort to influence the 2016 election  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company's platforms in an attempt …
Bloomberg:
Netflix is facing stiff competition from Hulu which outbid it for reruns of This Is Us, spending around $3.5M per episode according to sources  —  Online service snaps up reruns, taking page from larger rival  —  Company says it's acquired 3,000 episodes of new, old shows
New York Times:
How Disney accelerated plans to invest in BAMTech to power two planned streaming services  —  For two days in late June, Disney's board of directors gathered at Walt Disney World in Florida to wrestle with one topic: how technology was disrupting the company's traditional movie …
Lorna White / INMA:
EU's General Data Protection Regulation will push advertisers to buy ads on sites with recognizable brands rather than target audiences anywhere on the web  —  SUMMARY: The General Data Protection Regulation will likely affect the ease of gathering data and related advertising opportunities.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Members of House and Senate intelligence committees shed light on what they will look for in Facebook's Russian ad buy data  —  Facebook is facing an unprecedented crisis in Washington.  And it's only just beginning.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  The same week Mark Zuckerberg delivered …
Lloyd Grove / Columbia Journalism Review:
Looking back at Donald Trump's relationship with the tabloids and how he controlled the narrative about himself  —  To tabloid reporters in New York, President Trump was known simply as Donald.  A former gossip writer for the New York Daily News describes a complicated—and profitable—relationship.
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
Inside Amazon's push into advertising, as company prepares to open 2,000 person office, mostly for ad jobs, in New York  —  Amazon continues to make serious inroads into the advertising business.  Its latest move: a new office in Manhattan that it says will bring 2,000 jobs, mostly in advertising …
 
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Jake Kanter / Business Insider:
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
How New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman's Twitter-friendly style is changing the paper's editorial and business strategies
Jack Nissen / Bridge Magazine:
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, who is leading the company's Russia investigation, complains via tweetstorm about a misguided media backlash over “The Algorithm”
CBS News:
On 60 Minutes, Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale describes how he handpicked Facebook employee “embeds” who assisted the campaign with its ad buys
Financial Times:
Prestigious magazines like Rolling Stone face an increasingly-uncertain future amid the growth of the internet and its abundance of free news and entertainment