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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Sources: Weinstein hired private investigators to collect info on actresses and journalists, ahead of revelations, to stop publication of abuse allegations — The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.
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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Report: Harvey Weinstein's lawyer was also representing the NYT at the same time in a separate matter, while working to stop the paper's story on the film mogul — David Boies and his Manhattan firm Boies, Schiller and Flexner were representing the newspaper at the same …
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New York Times, Quartz, @jeffjohnroberts, @mlcalderone, The Wrap and Mediaite
Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
Television Academy Votes to Expel Harvey Weinstein For Life — Harvey Weinstein has been expelled for life by the Television Academy, Variety has learned. — In a meeting Monday with the board of governors, the organization voted to permanently banish the embattled producer …
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The Wrap, The Guardian, New York Times, Business Insider, IndieWire, Jezebel, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Flavorwire won't review Disney films or cover studio news, and WaPo writer won't review films in advance after Disney studio locked out LA Times over reporting — The Times is currently barred from attending advance screenings of Disney movies. — On Monday, culture and entertainment …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Director-General Tony Hall and other execs are questioned by UK lawmakers over the corporation's gender pay gap, competition from streaming services, more — Director general Tony Hall and others in the U.K. parliament also discussed the public broadcaster's efforts to combat harassment and bullying.
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Slate:
A look at push alerts sent by The New York Times and Washington Post since Trump was elected — It has been an exhausting, exasperating, anxious year. A year of relentless assault, as one news break after another pushed its way into our daily existence and found us where we live …
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Agence France-Presse:
Islamic State claims attack on Kabul TV station Shamshad, killing at least two and injuring 20+; Shamshad resumes broadcasting in defiance moments after rescue — Gunmen disguised as policemen stormed a television station in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding several others …
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BBC, Amnesty International, WJXT-TV, Al Jazeera English, Reuters, The Financial Express, Newser and NPR
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Seven weeks after his death, most of Paul Horner's fake news sites are offline; his brother, JJ Horner, says he was unaware the sites had been shuttered — Seven weeks after his death, most of Paul Horner's fake news empire is offline. — Horner, who once boasted in The Washington Post …
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with Al Cross, head of the University of Kentucky-based Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, which runs The Rural Blog — In February 1942, The Atlantic published an essay by Arthur Morgan, a civil engineer and educator who had previously served as the first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Tencent's e-book publishing arm, China Literature, set to spin out and raise $1B+ in Hong Kong IPO — Tencent's China Literature, an Amazon-like e-book business, is continuing the trend of Asian tech IPOs after it announced its public listing in Hong Kong will raise $1.06 billion on Wednesday.
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Bloomberg and South China Morning Post
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Financial news network Cheddar partners with co-working company WeWork to build remote studios in WeWork offices around the US and potentially London and Asia — Cheddar is joining forces with WeWork to scale its on-air guest booking operation. It's building remote studios in WeWork offices around …
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Nieman Lab
Kevin Draper / New York Times:
Bob Bowman is stepping down next month as CEO of MLB Advanced Media, which spawned Disney's streaming video company BAMTech — The former baseball commissioner Bud Selig once called Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the league's digital and video arm, “one of the great success stories …
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