Mediagazer: Profile of Sinclair Broadcasting, its ties to Trump and how it will increase its reach from 40% to 72% of US homes when its deal to acquire Tribune closes (Andy Kroll/Mother Jones)

3:20 PM ET, October 24, 2017

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Colin Lecher / The Verge:

Facebook announces News Feed guidelines for publishers, mostly codifying current rules, with few changes to policies — In an attempt to provide more transparency on how Facebook's News Feed ranks content, the company today announced a new set of guidelines for publishers.

Discussion: Facebook, Adweek, TechCrunch and Engadget

Adam Mosseri / Facebook Media:

Facebook says its News Feed test is about emphasis of personal stories, no plans to expand to more countries or ask publishers to pay for all distribution — There have been a number of reports about a test we're running in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia.

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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Facebook testing News Feed change in six countries, moving non-promoted posts from Pages to a secondary feed, decreasing engagement for some media

Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:

Former assistant to Harvey Weinstein, Zelda Perkins, describes the grueling settlement process after harassment claim with Miramax, when it was owned by Disney — Nineteen years ago this month, Zelda Perkins walked out of Miramax's London offices on Brewer Street in Soho for the last time and went …

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Megan Twohey / New York Times:
NY AG Eric Schneiderman opens civil rights inquiry into Weinstein Company, examining allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment, subpoenas documents

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Brian Fung / Washington Post:

FCC ends decades-old rule requiring broadcasters to have a studio in or near where they hold licenses, enabling more control of big media over local stations — Federal regulators have voted to eliminate a longstanding rule covering radio and television stations, in a move that could ultimately reshape America's media landscape.

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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:

Memo: BuzzFeed's Chief People Officer Lenke Taylor addresses harassment allegations, after some staffers appear on circulating “Shitty Media Men” list — - BuzzFeed sent a note to its employees affirming its commitment to fighting sexual harassment following the release of the “Sh—

Charlie Warzel / Infowarzel:

Pro-Trump blogger Mike Cernovich's publication of names from “Shitty Media Men” list motivated by desire to take moral high ground in war on mainstream media — Happy Monday. Welcome to Infowarzel. Here's a few brief thoughts I had about something that (sorta) happened this weekend in pro-Trump media world.

Discussion: Mike Cernovich, @archiebland, @cwarzel, @thetomzone, thecut and Mike Cernovich

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins is leaving to run Sony Television and will be replaced by Fox executive Randy Freer — Mike Hopkins is leaving the streaming service, replaced by Randy Freer. — Hulu, the streaming video service owned by several big media companies, is replacing its CEO: Mike Hopkins …

Discussion: Deadline, Adweek, Ad Age, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Engadget and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Telegraph:

Memo: Condé Nast International says it will no longer work with fashion photographer Terry Richardson who has been dogged by allegations of sexual exploitation — Terry Richardson, the fashion photographer, has been barred from working with some of the world's bestselling magazines, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Discussion: Folio, The Wrap, The Times & The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Fast Company and Racked

Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:

Profile of Sinclair Broadcasting, its ties to Trump and how it will increase its reach from 40% to 72% of US homes when its deal to acquire Tribune closes — One evening in July, David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, strolled into the newsroom at WJLA …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, @jamilsmith, @andykroll, @andykroll, @joyannreid, @andykroll, Mother Jones and Financial Times

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Profile of three-year-old Adams Publishing Group, which has acquired 100+ small town community papers in at least 15 separate deals — As family owners of newspapers are deciding in waves to exit the difficult industry, many of them are finding a new and eager suitor — the secretive Adams Publishing Group.

Discussion: @rickedmonds, @poynter and @raju

Kimberly Pierceall / Virginian-Pilot:

Parent of Virginian-Pilot reducing staff of 543 by ~10% with buyouts, weighs outsourcing newsroom print design — In the face of a continuing decline in print revenue, the publisher of The Virginian-Pilot announced Monday that the company would offer voluntary buyouts to its most veteran employees …

Discussion: @jwpascale, Forbes and Editor & Publisher

Sara Fischer / Axios:

comScore: traffic to conservative digital media sites had declined in past year, with Breitbart and Drudge Report down 20%+, and Daily Caller down 48% — Some of the biggest names in conservative digital media are seeing big traffic declines over the past year, according to comScore data pulled by Activate and Axios.

Discussion: @noahcrothman, @ajs and @mlcalderone

Andrew Higgins / New York Times:

A look at the fallout from journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder, which was Malta's sixth car bombing case in two years, all of which remain unsolved — VALLETTA, Malta — The blast from the bomb planted in the rented Peugeot of Malta's best-known investigative journalist was so powerful …

Discussion: @timobrien

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