Mediagazer: How Mashable flamed out: loss of editorial focus, lack of financial controls, an ill-executed shift to video, and hesitance to diversify revenue (Lucia Moses/Digiday)

12:25 PM ET, November 22, 2017

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Sources: Vice employees were enraged after CEO Smith failed to address sexual harassment in recent company presentation, amid fears of an upcoming NYT exposé — After a disastrous state of the union and amid rumors of another sexual harassment story, the media group is already doing damage control.

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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

Source: The New York Times is torn as to whether White House correspondent Glenn Thrush should be fired over alleged sexual harassment at his previous job — Multiple current and former Times employees are wrestling with whether the allegations against Thrush warrant his firing.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

How Mashable flamed out: loss of editorial focus, lack of financial controls, an ill-executed shift to video, and hesitance to diversify revenue — Few images better capture the unfettered optimism and indignity of digital media than 2014 at South by Southwest, where a line …

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Another female-led investor group, which includes Walt Disney's grandniece and is led by NY-based Killer Content, is making a bid for the Weinstein Company — LOS ANGELES — Two female-led investor groups are lining up to save the Weinstein Company, which has been straining …

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