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Sources: in January, O'Reilly agreed to pay $32M to settle sexual harassment claims from former Fox analyst Lis Wiehl; in February his contract was extended — In January, the Fox News host was said to have agreed to a $32 million settlement with a former network analyst, the largest of his known payouts.
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Silvia Killingsworth / The Awl:
Vox Media Editorial Director Lockhart Steele, founder of Curbed, has been fired; CEO staff memo said Steele admitted conduct “inconsistent with our core values” — In what appears to be the first and probably not the last repercussion of last week's Shitty Media Men list …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
After firing editorial director Lockhart Steele, Vox CEO Jim Bankoff tells staff that investigations into inappropriate conduct are ongoing — Bankoff said there are still people coming forward and that Gibson Dunn is investigating. — A day after Vox Media terminated editorial director Lockhart Steele …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT's and WSJ's social media rules won't convince readers that journalists aren't biased, prevents outlets from using full potential of the medium — The relationship between media outlets and social platforms like Twitter has always been tense. On some level, publishers …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control — In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual.
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Millennials, shunning Trump and conditioned by Netflix and Spotify to pay for quality content, are subscribing to legacy news publications in record numbers — Shunning Trump, the millennial generation does what it once resisted: pay for news. — As President Donald Trump wages daily war …
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Google says it plans to take a percentage of fees for new subscriptions that media publishers get via its upcoming subscriber targeting tools — Google plans to share revenues with publishers which benefit from the company's new digital subscription tools, in a scheme comparable to its successful advertising revenue model.
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Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:
Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018 — Billboard has announced that its Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts — which measure singles and albums, respectively …
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Condé Nast Entertainment president Dawn Ostroff on finding projects in the archives, character-driven narratives, and working on scripted projects — The media company's entertainment president (and former CW chief) opens up about developing a GQ feature into 'Only the Brave …
Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Research and development team at the BBC announces a five-year initiative to use machine learning to gain insight into what audiences want to watch — Today, BBC's R&D team announced a five-year initiative to use machine learning to work out what audiences want to watch.
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Proposed Honest Ads Act covers disclosure of political ad spending but fails to address the power of viral unpaid organic posts from fake accounts on Facebook — A BIPARTISAN GROUP of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would require online political advertisers to provide additional disclosures …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Inside MLK50, a year-long digi-journalism project on economic inequality and underrepresentation of blacks in Memphis, which will end April 4, 2018 — “Memphis is a microcosm of what's going on in a lot of urban centers around the country. It's an extreme example of what happens when things …