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Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
Twitter DMs show Wikileaks asked Trump Jr. to help share its work, support Assange as ambassador; Trump Jr. appeared to act on some requests during '16 campaign — Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year's presidential election …
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Joseph Otterson / Variety:
‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Moving Forward at Amazon With Multi-Season Production Commitment — A “Lord of the Rings” TV series is moving forward at Amazon with the streaming service giving the series a multi-season production commitment, Amazon announced Monday.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sources: New LA Times editor told journalists told not to retweet praise of investigative series on Disney, elevating tension within the newsroom — A dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Walt Disney Company has ignited a battle between the paper's employees and its new top management.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Profile of new Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones, a graduate of Harvard and Columbia who got her start in journalism as arts editor at Moscow Times — Radhika Jones grew up around music. Her father, Robert L. Jones, a singer and guitarist, was a prominent figure on the Cambridge, Mass., folk scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Erin Nyren / Variety:
New York Times Books Editor Radhika Jones has been named the next editor of Vanity Fair
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Chavie Lieber / Racked:
Inside the swag retail economy, where magazine staffers sell promotional items to supplement income, and how companies lack policies regarding the practice — How editors turn their gifts into cash. — PHOTOGRAPHY BY TED & CHELSEA CAVANAUGH — PIN — A few months ago …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fullscreen Media says it will shut down its SVOD service January 2018, will lay off about 25 employees — Fullscreen Media will pull the plug on its subscription-video service introduced less than two years ago, and is laying off about 25 employees with the shutdown.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Interview with The New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson on regulating Facebook, global initiatives and ambitions, and building things beyond news — “I think over the next five years, it's possible the competitive landscape will actually get in some ways more attractive for The New York Times …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
A&E Networks takes significant minority stake in Dan Abrams' live trial website, renamed Law&Crime Network, as part of deal; source says firm valued at $15M — Deal envisions development of modern-day Court TV with eye toward broader distribution — Dan Abrams's dream of bringing …
Yuyu Chen / Digiday:
Casper to launch a branded glossy magazine, Wooly, priced at $12, after shutting down online publication Van Winkle's — When Jeff Koyen joined Casper in 2015 as editor-in-chief of Van Winkle's, the mattress brand's standalone online publication, the future looked bright because the company gave …
Janko Rottgers / Variety:
Former Hulu CTO Tian Lim hired last month by Google as VP for Google Play; Hulu SVP of engineering Barry Steinglass will be interim CTO — Google just added a high-ranking Hulu executive to its team: The company has hired former Hulu CTO Tian Lim, who will be leading product and user experience efforts as a VP for Google Play.
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Freedom House:
Report: governments in 30 countries manipulated social media to counter critics, drive specific agendas, more; elections in 18 countries may have been affected — Key Findings Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States.
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Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
CompuServe's Forums, the dominant message forum of the 1980s, to be shut down on December 15 — Before there was a world wide web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between computer users happened in the forums at CompuServe, which was the dominant online service until AOL came along.
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