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8:50 AM ET, October 16, 2017

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Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Motion Picture Academy expels Harvey Weinstein  —  The Oscar-winner's lifetime membership has been revoked.  —  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has expelled disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein from its ranks.  —  The Academy's 54-member board of governors …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein's attorney Charles Harder exits without filing threatened lawsuit against The New York Times  —  Charles Harder joins Lisa Bloom and Lanny Davis in exiting the disgraced mogul's legal team.  —  Harvey Weinstein's legal team has lost another high-profile attorney.
Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview, Bob Weinstein says he's sickened by Harvey Weinstein's seeming lack of remorse, insists Weinstein Co. can survive, more  —  The Weinstein Co. exec insists he had no idea about “the type of predator that he was” and is sickened by Harvey's seeming lack of remorse.
Los Angeles Times:
Sources: potential buyers circle for parts of The Weinstein Company as its lenders pressure firm to liquidate assets
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Business Insider promotes Nicholas Carlson to global editor-in-chief and chief content officer  —  Business Insider founder Henry Blodget sent out the following on Monday morning: Team, I have an exciting promotion to announce.  But first, some background.
Discussion: @nichcarlson and @thestalwart
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Though Trump's threats against the press have been toothless thus far, they hurt US' ability to be a free press advocate on the world stage  —  (Scalzo/Epa-Efe/Rex/Shutterstock/ Scalzo/Epa-Efe/Rex/Shutterstock)  —  As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump vowed to change the libel laws …
Alexandria Symonds / New York Times:
Difficulties of reporting on sexual harassment allegations: sources fear of reprisals, settlements containing NDAs, victim blaming, threats of lawsuits  —  It starts with a whisper.  A prominent man has used his wealth and power to harass or abuse a woman — or worse — and then to intimidate her, or to buy her silence.
Discussion: The Guardian
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Legacy media organizations Condé Nast, Time Inc., and Bonnier Corp. increasingly switch to digital-oriented sales models like digital competitors Vox and Fusion  —  Earlier this year, Condé Nast became the latest legacy publishing company to get rid of the publisher title and replace it with a group sales model.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promises to crack down on hate, violence, and harassment with “more aggressive” rules  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to...Twitter today to promise a “more aggressive” stance in its rules and how it enforces them.  The tweet storm was based in a response …
Business Insider:
Three ad agencies estimated Facebook ad costs of reaching voters in Wisconsin and Michigan with an intention of swaying their vote at $50K-$283K  —  - Three media agencies modeled the cost of using Facebook to reach voters in Wisconsin and Michigan with the intention of swaying their vote.
Discussion: Mashable and Foreign Policy
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study: use of push notifications challenging due to lack of good engagement metrics, difficulty of personalization, and clunky tools  —  New research on how news organizations are using (and abusing?) push notifications.  —  How many push alerts is too many?
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
An in-depth look at Facebook's role in eroding the informational underpinnings of democracy during the 2016 election, and why it was so hard to see it coming  —  In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after.
 
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