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David Folkenflik / NPR:
LA Times CEO Ross Levinsohn has been defendant in 2 sexual harassment suits, and colleagues questioned his conduct over 2 decades; Tronc says it's investigating — The Los Angeles Times has given prominent coverage to recent revelations of sexual harassment of women by prominent men, particularly in entertainment and media.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Amid stories about LA Times' CEO, a look at Tronc's plans for a “Los Angeles Times Network”, borrowing from Lewis D'Vorkin's work on Forbes' contributor network — The Tronc rollercoaster continues: Just as it tries to unveil a familiar strategy ("gravitas with scale"!), its top digital leader's past catches up with him.
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Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Leaked Snap memo to staff threatens them with termination, financial liability, and even jail time if they leak confidential information about the company — Snap Inc. has a simple message to its employees: leak information and you could be sued or even jailed.
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Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Sources: Snap laid off about 24 people across 8 teams, mostly in the content unit that curates users' videos; some staff were asked to relocate to Los Angeles — Snapchat parent Snap Inc. laid off roughly two dozen people across 8 different teams on Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Cheddar.
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Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica:
Twitch debuts Video Producer that lets creators pre-record, post-produce, rerun videos; brings in four of YouTube's popular gamers to create exclusive content — Four of YouTube's most popular gamers will produce “exclusive” Twitch content. — The Amazon-owned video site Twitch announced it's introducing …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Vice worked to address its culture problem ahead of NYT article in order to protect its image as a maturing brand and its somewhat improbable $5.7B valuation — After months of rumormongering and speculation, Shane Smith's media empire seems to be surviving a highly anticipated Times story by reforming its culture—and publicizing it.
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Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Sources: Facebook's lead liaison with Beijing, Wang-Li Moser, resigned in December after a three-year tenure in a fresh setback to its China charm campaign — HONG KONG — The executive in charge of Facebook's efforts to court China has left the company, a fresh setback for the social network …
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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Amazon cancels “One Mississippi,” “I Love Dick,” and “Jean-Claude Van Johnson” after Roy Price's ouster as it moves to broader series with international appeal — Amazon has canceled three original series — “I Love Dick,” “One Mississippi,” and “Jean-Claude Van Johnson.”
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Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Four phone hacking cases against Murdoch's The Sun and News of the World were settled just ahead of trial; another 47 cases remain in the pipeline — Confidential settlement of cases against Sun and News of the World raises difficult issues for future hacking cases, judge says
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Boing Boing:
Boing Boing and EFF file a motion to dismiss Playboy lawsuit that would set a dangerous precedent by making publications liable for linked content — A few weeks ago we were shocked to learn that Playboy had, without notifying us, sued us over this post (we learned about it when a journalist DM'ed us on Twitter to ask about it).
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Garrett Pelican / WJXT-TV:
Layoffs hit The Florida Times-Union, affecting four reporters, two photo staff members, and others following GateHouse Media's purchase of newspaper in 2017 — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Newsroom layoffs have begun at The Florida Times-Union, which signaled plans to downsize last month with the decision …
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Variety:
MoviePass announces at Sundance that it plans to acquire rights to films through a newly created subsidiary, MoviePass Ventures — Senior Film and Media Editor @BrentALang FOLLOW — MoviePass must have some serious Netflix envy. — The subscription service isn't just content offering customers bargain-basement tickets to movies.
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