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5:40 PM ET, January 30, 2018

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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.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Vice Media has fired Chief Digital Officer Mike Germano following two separate allegations of sexual misconduct against him  —  Vice Media has fired its chief digital officer, Mike Germano, after at least two women accused him of sexual misconduct, TheWrap has learned.
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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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Study: Twitter cuts into Facebook's lead on traffic sent to publishers; this month FB sent 2.5 visitors for each one Twitter sent, down from 4.7:1 in Oct. 2017  —  Publishers are freaking out about Facebook's plan to show 20% less news in the News Feed.  But over the past four months …
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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
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Subsidiary of Canada's The Katz Group has bought a majority stake in Laura Ingraham's LifeZette; Ingraham maintains a minority stake  —  Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz's company is the new owner of LifeZette, the site co-founded by Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
Discussion: @calamusandsinew and @bruce_arthur
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.
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Hyundai pulls planned Super Bowl ad that promoted women's empowerment after response to similar Audi ad last year and poor results with male focus group  —  Television ads for the big game are emerging from months of work in Madison Avenue war rooms  —  In early August, creative teams …
Steve Gunn / Virginian-Pilot:
Virginian-Pilot announces it will outsource much of its newsroom print design to Pagemasters North America starting this spring, leading to six layoffs  —  The Virginian-Pilot announced Tuesday that it will outsource much of its newsroom print page design to an outside vendor.
Discussion: @mike_hixenbaugh
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: Amazon and Facebook are interested in bidding for streaming rights to WWE's “Raw” and “Smackdown” franchises, as tech firms compete with TV giants  —  The year is 2034.  The Olympics that have been a fixture on channels owned by NBCUniversal since 2002 have disappeared from TV altogether.
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 …
Pamela Barbaglia / Reuters:
Sources: Blackstone Group LP offers Reuters news unit annual payments of $325M for 30 years, as part of bid to buy a 55% stake in Thomson Reuters  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) has agreed that annual payments of $325 million would be made for 30 years to the Reuters News business …
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 …
Discussion: The Wrap and Talking Biz News
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