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Gaby Del Valle / The Outline:
Memo: Newsweek fires EIC Bob Roe, news director Ken Li; reporters Katz, Saul, who were investigating parent company's finances, also fired, according to report — Editors and reporters are being fired, and current staffers speculate Newsweek's ties to a mysterious cult are to blame.
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Lawrence Bonk / Mediaite:
Newsweek senior writer Matthew Cooper resigns in protest of firings and installation of editors seeking clicks and retweets over accuracy and fairness — What the heck is going on over at Newsweek? In a staff meeting, held earlier today, editors announced that the publication was firing …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Review-Journal killed story in 1998 about Steve Wynn sex misconduct claims and ordered its author to delete it from the newspaper's system — Cocktail waitresses at The Mirage sued over sexual discrimination in the 1990's. Jim Laurie Las Vegas Review-Journal — A 1998 fax.
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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Sources: Facebook in talks with media buyers to expand Watch to more individual creators with a revenue split from ads, similar to YouTube — - Facebook has talked to media buyers about expanding Watch to more individual creators and creating an advertising system where everyone would get a split of revenue, similar to YouTube.
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David Ingram / Reuters:
Seattle's Ethics and Elections Commission says Facebook violated election ad law, orders Facebook to disclose political ad spend info during 2017 city elections — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Seattle's election authority said on Monday that Facebook Inc is in violation of a city law …
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Ricardo Lopez / Variety:
Sources: Viacom close to acquiring annual online video conference Vidcon, which will be an independent division of Viacom and retain leadership team, offices — Viacom is close to acquiring VidCon, Variety has learned from individuals with knowledge of the transaction.
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Steve Erickson / Los Angeles Magazine:
MSNBC's roster of female reporters, anchors, and commentators has grown organically, driven by talent, contrasts sharply with CNN and Fox's male-dominated faces — Rachel Maddow and other talented reporters have transformed the media landscape in the Trump era
Jack Sommers / HuffPost UK:
Julian Assange could leave the Ecuadorian embassy today after five years, with a judge expected to rule on whether warrant for his arrest should be quashed — He's been there since June 2012. — Julian Assange's five-year standoff with police could end today when a court decides whether …
VICE:
Two far-right nationalists barged into Vice's Romania offices and filmed the encounter, the latest in a string of similar incidents by white supremacists — Our colleagues at VICE Romania had a visit from a couple of guys who were angry with us about... quoting them verbatim?
Felice J. Freyer / Association of Health Care …:
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threatened to ban a reporter from the agency's phone news conferences after he refused to alter a story — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threatened to ban a reporter from participating in the federal agency's telephone news conferences …
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Jim Rutenberg / The Wilson Quarterly:
How attacks by candidate and President Trump gave the NYT a renewed excitement to show the worth of traditional journalism based in fact and without aggression — In the morning hours of his first Saturday as president-elect, and just days after saying his public posture would change because …
WARC:
Report: total UK ad spend on mobile, including display, search, and other formats like SMS, was higher than TV spend for the first time in Q3 2017 — LONDON: The UK's ad market reached a new milestone during the third quarter of 2017 as almost one in four pounds spent on advertising went to mobile …
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