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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook to show more stories from local news sources in News Feed; will identify local publishers by looking at clicks in tight geographic areas — It's the third big change Facebook has announced in the last month. And at least one more is coming. — Facebook says it will bring …
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BBC:
PwC review of BBC pay structure found no gender bias in decision making, but identified anomalies, recommends clear pay framework, narrower pay ranges — Today the BBC has published a review of on-air pay carried out by PwC, and set out a five-point plan to help create a fairer and more equal BBC.
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BBC Women, a group representing female BBC journalists and producers, say employees experienced “veiled threats” when raising subject of equal pay — Women at the BBC have told MPs they faced “veiled threats” while trying to raise the subject of equal pay.
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Celeste Katz / Newsweek:
Newsweek Media's chief content officer Dayan Candappa takes immediate leave following report of his 2016 dismissal from Reuters over sexual harassment complaint — The chief content officer of Newsweek Media Group, which publishes Newsweek and a suite of other digital properties …
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Rossalyn Warren / BuzzFeed:
Reuters editor Dayan Candappa was fired in '16 after sexual harassment complaint; he now oversees content at Newsweek Media Group despite warning about his past — According to a complaint filed to Reuters management, Dayan Candappa sexually harassed his subordinate for months.
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Sam Charles / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago Sun-Times EIC Chris Fusco says Times will not publish anything by Richard Roeper as it investigates allegations he paid to boost his Twitter followers — The Chicago Sun-Times will not publish columns or reviews authored by Richard Roeper as the newspaper investigates the legitimacy of Roeper's sizable Twitter following.
Charleston Gazette-Mail:
West Virginia's Charleston Gazette-Mail declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Wheeling Newspapers the likely high bidder to assume ownership; layoffs possible — The owners of the Charleston Gazette-Mail agreed Monday to take the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Pew Research Center:
Pew: analysis of 9.7M tweets shows 75% of tweets about immigration contained links to news sites, with NYT and The Hill as the two most-tweeted sites — An analysis of 9.7 million tweets reveals that news organizations played the largest role in which content was linked to compared with other information providers
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Profile of Mark Ein, Washington City Paper's new VC owner, who calls himself a centrist, isn't much of a reader, and says journalists help save our world — Mark Ein, the venture capitalist who recently bought the Washington City Paper, could never be confused for the counterculture contrarians …
A.J. Chavar / Vox:
National Geographic's Deputy Director of Photography, Patrick Witty, was fired from the magazine after an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment — The magazine's former deputy director of photography, Patrick Witty, is accused of a wide variety of harassment.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The Trump administration has both boosted political journalists, with print reporters receiving cable TV contracts, and endangered them — WASHINGTON — Asked to reflect on the relationship between President Trump and the news media — an abusive yet symbiotic union, if there ever was one …
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@jacob_brogan, @michaelkruse and @grynbaum
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: ‘I regret my role’ in Hillary Clinton false equivalence — So long as President Trump continues disgracing the Oval Office, thoughtful people will probe their own role in helping him get there. — Such appeared to be the motivation behind a mea culpa issued …
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