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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Motion Picture Academy expels Harvey Weinstein — The Oscar-winner's lifetime membership has been revoked.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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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.
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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.
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Los Angeles Times:
Sources: potential buyers circle for parts of The Weinstein Company as its lenders pressure firm to liquidate assets
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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 …
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Jessica Rosenworcel calls on fellow FCC commissioners to break their silence on Trump's comments on revoking networks' broadcasting licenses — FCC commissioner responds to Trump's license tweets — A top Federal Communications Commission official is putting pressure on her colleagues …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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.
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Jan Dawson / Variety:
The strength of Netflix's international revenue and subscribers, compared to US competitors, helps the company offset rising content costs — Much has been made of Netflix's massive and fast-growing content budget, which the company estimates will be $7 million for 2018.
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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?
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
After Weinstein and Price allegations, Amazon Studios drops TWC-produced David O. Russell's drama series and takes over production of The Romanoffs from TWC — The drama was poised to star Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore. Meanwhile, Matt Weiner's ‘The Romanoffs’ will be produced fully …
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