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Twitter suspends former Trump adviser Roger Stone after he sent crude, personal, and vaguely threatening tweets to some CNN anchors and contributors — Stone went after Lemon last night. — What can you get away with typing on Twitter? It's a line that moves over time.
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News orgs in 6 test countries worry over the drop in reach after Facebook moved their posts to the Explore tab, with paying as only option to get into News Feed — “It's important politically how this is going to play out.” — It's Facebook's world; we just live in it.
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How two former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters, founders of Fusion GPS, became key figures in the political storm surrounding Trump-Russia dossier — In fall 2015, Fusion GPS, an investigative firm run by former senior reporters at the Wall Street Journal, began working on a new assignment …
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@realdonaldtrump, Deadline, Washington Post, Axios, The Daily Caller, CNN, @axios and @mlcalderone


Sources: ex-THR editor Janice Min, publishing entrepreneur Tyler Brule, and Ronan Farrow all believed to be in the running for Vanity Fair editor job — As sexual harassment accusations sweep through many industries, the selection of a new editor has become a prism through which to read a changing landscape

The New Republic's publisher, Hamilton Fish, takes leave after harassment allegations involving “a number of women employees”, according to its owner — Hamilton Fish V, the publisher of The New Republic, is taking a leave of absence from running the century-old magazine pending …
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New York Magazine, @melbournecoal and @jamilsmith


Sources: at CNN, staff fear parent company Time Warner's merger with AT&T will lead to the ouster of the network's President Jeff Zucker — The good news, however, is that the network's future overlords in Dallas are now willing to publicly support Jeff Zucker. But what will things look like in a year?
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The Wrap, TVNewser, New York Times and @richardmadan


Amid the Weinstein fallout and a book tour by Matt Taibbi, the misogynist tales of Taibbi and Mark Ames in The Exile resurface — Matt Taibbi has a new book out now, I Can't Breathe, about all the forces that conspired to kill Eric Garner. It's an important story that has become part …
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How to improve Medium: more metrics, sharing from inside the paywall, more specifics on how claps equate to earnings, and an emphasis on the lack of advertising — NewCo and I are very invested in Medium—we very much want it to thrive. Here are a few suggestions that might make it better.

NBC News has terminated Mark Halperin's contract, following HBO, Showtime and Penguin in severing ties with him. — NBC News has terminated Mark Halperin's contract, following HBO, Showtime and Penguin in severing ties with him.


The erasure of traditional boundaries between advertising and other “content” online lies at the root of the Russian ad issue during the US election — lmost a year after the shock election of Donald Trump, the communication tactics and tools that helped him win power remain …
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@janebsinger, @emilybell and @soktaykilic


News organizations must address the deep-seated gender inequality that's at the root of the widespread sexual misconduct at media companies — So, now that the dam has burst on sexual misconduct at media companies, we're good, right? — Don't believe that for a moment.
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Q&A with Howard Owens, publisher of The Batavian in upstate NY, on building an app, boosting subscriptions, and futility of recreating a newspaper model online — Howard Owens has done local news at both ends of the publishing spectrum. He was director of digital publishing …
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