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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Netflix to cancel its first original series, House of Cards, after next season; execs meeting with cast and crew in wake of Kevin Spacey assault allegations — Netflix drama “House of Cards” will end with its upcoming sixth season, Variety has learned. Production has begun …
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Sources: Facebook, Google, Twitter to tell Congress that Russian election meddling wider than reported; source says 126M Facebook users may have seen content — The companies will reveal new data about the Kremlin's disinformation at congressional hearings this week.
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Nick Denton:
Gossip about prominent sexual misconduct circulated for years on Gawker; first accounts tell victims they aren't alone and allow for coordination — The recent torrent of public allegations against celebrities such as Harvey Weinstein, Terry Richardson and James Toback is unprecedented.
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Jimmy Wales / Wikitribune Beta:
Jimmy Wales announces WikiTribune is open, says it will begin accepting people over the next few weeks — Welcome to WikiTribune, a pilot project for a new approach to journalism where the community is at the center. This is not a news service - yet. It'll only be the news service I envisage when you play a full role.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube TV debuts a standalone app for Android TV and Xbox One devices today, coming to Apple TV, smart TVs in coming weeks; no plans shared for Amazon app — The video giant's pay TV effort is expanding — Over the last five years, major cable and satellite television providers in the US …
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
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
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
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 Guardian:
Two UK Independence Party whistleblowers filed complaints with UK's Electoral Commission over Breitbart influence on Brexit — Sources tell Guardian that senior ‘volunteers’ in Ukip before EU referendum were paid by the rightwing US website — Two internal Ukip whistleblowers filed complaints …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Since reorganization a year ago, Viacom's ratings are up 3% and analysts expect shares to rise over next 12 months, but Paramount film studio underperforms — CEO Bob Bakish, who has been in charge for nearly a year, has made inroads in TV (cable channel ratings are up 3 percent) …
Brian Barrett / Wired:
How streaming boxes running open source Kodi media player software have made video piracy easy with third-party add-ons — THE KODI BOX pitch is hard to resist. A little black plastic square, in look not much different from a Roku or Apple TV, and similar in function as well.
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Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
MSNBC has confirmed it has terminated Mark Halperin's contract, after HBO and Penguin Press both sever ties — MSNBC this morning confirmed to Deadline it has terminated Mark Halperin's contract. — News comes days after CNN first reported claims of five women, who spoke on condition of anonymity …
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Nat Levy / GeekWire:
Amazon announces plans to move Amazon Studios, IMDB, Amazon Video, and World Wide Advertising to historic 280K sq ft Culver Studios in Culver City, California — Amazon Studios, the company's film and TV production arm, said it is moving into the historic Culver Studios, where classics like …
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