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Netflix says it will not be involved in any further production of House of Cards with Kevin Spacey, scraps Gore Vidal biopic featuring actor — The streamer is “evaluating” the future of political drama House of Cards and is no longer moving forward with a planned Gore Vidal biopic that the two-time Oscar winner was set to star in.
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Chloe Melas / CNNMoney:
Former House of Cards production assistant says Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted him; other current and former workers call Spacey's behavior “predatory”
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Disney declined to offer LA Times entertainment writers advance film screenings claiming unfair coverage of its ties with Anaheim — The Los Angeles Times has just published its 2017 Holiday Movie Preview. Prominently featured is this note warning readers about a rather large and unfortunate omission from the reviews:
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Analysis: how US news orgs including Washington Post and Miami Herald cited tweets from Russian troll farm accounts, presenting them as authentic voices — Tweets from 2,752 fake Twitter accounts created by Russian government trolls found their way into U.S. news stories.
Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 26% of US adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016; 50% of Facebook news users get news via Facebook alone — Americans are more likely than ever to get news from multiple social media sites, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
A look at Bild's framework to evaluate its partnerships with Google, Facebook, and Snapchat — Publishers face no shortage of dilemmas in a platform-dominated world. Bild, Axel Springer's most-read news brand, has developed a framework based on a traffic-light system for approaching …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Spirited Media lays off staffers from its three hyperlocal news sites, seeks new revenue streams — Photo of the Denverite office in October 2016 by Corey Hutchins — SPIRITED MEDIA LAID OFF STAFF at each of its three local news sites this week, undercutting hopes that the company …
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Julie Schwietert Collazo / Columbia Journalism Review:
Two Puerto Rican newspapers cut 59 staff after hurricane while parent company expands real estate portfolio in the US and Latin America — Image via Wikimedia Commons. — The staff of El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora, the two most important Spanish-language newspapers in Puerto Rico …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A startup incubated by Matter introduces Grafiti, an iOS app that lets users explore verified datasets, create charts, and share results — “These days we have all these conversations about policy and immigration where data comes up, and it's amazing how much plain text is still used to explain these ideas."
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David Uberti / Splinter:
New Republic president and publisher Hamilton Fish resigns amid sexual harassment investigation, effective immediately — The president and publisher of The New Republic has resigned as the magazine continues an inquiry into harassment allegations by female employees, according to a memo obtained by Splinter.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
CNN plans to launch tiered subscriptions as early as Q2 of 2018, debuts e-commerce site, and weighs expanding CNN Go app outside the US for a fee — The as-yet-unpriced plans are part of effort to reach $1 billion in digital revenue by 2022 — Two years ago, an employee in CNN's digital news group …
Kristin M. Hall / Associated Press:
Country Music Association apologizes and rescinds media restrictions on questions about Las Vegas shooting, gun rights, or politics at award show — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Country Music Association is apologizing after trying to impose restrictions on any questions by the media …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
How the Establishment's focus on simultaneous membership and audience growth has led to 900 new paying members since January and a million monthly page views — “It's obviously a crowded media sphere right now. A lot of people at the outset were dubious that we need another website."
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