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James Bennet, NYT editorial page editor, says Quinn Norton will not join editorial board after her prior tweets with slurs emerge following hiring announcement — Quinn Norton has tweeted that she's friends with neo-Nazis, and has used slurs on a regular basis.
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Netflix signs five-year exclusive contract with Ryan Murphy, creator of American Horror Story and Glee; sources say deal is worth as much as $300M — The streaming giant Netflix has won yet another battle against old Hollywood. — On Tuesday night, Netflix announced that it had poached …
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At a meeting of trade group Digital Content Next, which includes NYT, Vox Media, and News Corp, publishers weighed supporting regulation of Facebook and Google — At a trade group meeting last week, one media executive likened Facebook to Big Tobacco. — Media executives have for years …
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google details how Chrome's optional ad blocking, which goes live tomorrow, will work: which kinds of ads will trigger it, how Chrome will notify users, more — Chrome's built-in ad blocker will go live tomorrow. It's the first time Google will automatically block some ads in Chrome …
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Daniel Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Ex-Vice employee, who had access to info on dozens of employee salaries, sues Vice over pay discrimination, says male subordinate made $25K/year more than her — A former female employee of Vice Media has alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the company discriminates against female employees …
Mike Shields / Business Insider:
NBC is using the Olympics to push its new metric for measuring reach, Total Audience Delivery (TAD), which accounts for viewers outside of live TV — - NBCUniversal is using the Olympics to tout its custom Total Audience Delivery (TAD) metric as an alternative to classic Nielsen ratings.
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Josh Breiner / Haaretz:
Israel police recommend charges against Arnon Mozes, the publisher of Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, as part of one case against Prime Minister Netanyahu — ‘Case 1000’ alleges Netanyahu received lavish gifts from wealthy businessmen in return for political favors; ‘Case 2000’ alleges a tit-for-tat with publisher of Israeli daily
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
BuzzFeed has filed a lawsuit against the DNC, seeking info it believes will bolster its defence against Aleksej Gubarev, the Russian businessman suing the site — BuzzFeed believes that evidence of the alleged D.N.C. break-in by Russian hackers might help the online publisher in a libel suit.
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Edmund Lee / Recode:
Janice Min says Tronc approached her about running LA Times newsroom, but she withdrew from consideration because plan for national content network was unclear — The former editor of the Hollywood Reporter spoke to us at the Code Media conference. — The Los Angeles Times is undergoing …
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The Washington Post is opening bureaus in Rome and Hong Kong and has named a second Mexico City-based correspondent, as its international audience increases — The Washington Post is broadening its international coverage with the opening of bureaus in Rome and Hong Kong.
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
Sources: at a CNN town hall on Tues, Jeff Zucker was asked what his position on the network's digital employees unionizing is, says company hadn't considered it — At an internal town hall meeting with CNN employees today, CNN boss Jeff Zucker was asked his opinion on the possibility of his employees unionizing.
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The New York Times says that The Daily podcast will expand to public radio in April, distributed by American Public Media — The New York Times's audio news report, “The Daily,” will soon extend its current following of 4.5 million monthly unique listeners to the national radio audience.
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