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Sources: Harvey Weinstein has agreed to surrender to police on Friday to face charges he raped one woman and forced another into oral sex — Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, is expected to surrender to investigators on Friday after a monthslong inquiry into allegations that he sexually assaulted numerous women.
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Otillia Steadman / BuzzFeed:
Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to the NYPD to face sexual assault allegations — He arrived at the NYPD's first precinct in downtown Manhattan on Friday. — Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to the NYPD to face sexual assault allegations.
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Rob Leathern / Facebook:
Facebook rolls out “Paid for by” disclosure labels on Facebook and Instagram for political ads in US, including issues ads that deal with 20 specific subjects — As we announced last month, we're making big changes to the way ads with political content work on Facebook to help prevent abuse, especially during elections.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Financial Times and New York Media suspend paid media spending on Facebook due to concerns that news articles could be labeled as issue ads under new policy — Facebook's new ad-labeling policy has come under fire from publishers who are concerned that their news articles will be treated …
Facebook:
Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies
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Twitter:
Twitter to add badges and disclaimers for US federal political advertisers and require certification and account elements “consistent with online presence”
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Anna Hensel / VentureBeat:
Facebook launches archive of political ads, containing ads for political candidates and issue ads starting in May 2018; ads kept in archive for seven years
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BBC:
News sites for Lee Enterprises and Tronc properties, like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, restrict access to users in the EU as GDPR goes into effect — A number of high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new European Union rules on data protection came into effect.
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MySanAntonio.com:
San Antonio Express-News lays off 14 newsroom employees as Hearst consolidates; two employees also laid off in Austin bureau of Hearst-owned Houston Chronicle — The San Antonio Express-News laid off 14 newsroom employees Wednesday and Thursday as parent company Hearst Corp. coordinates …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Elon Musk's bad-faith bluster shows how little the tech barons understand about journalism; suggestions to crowdsource truth are plainly naive — When it comes to media criticism, comparing Elon Musk to Donald Trump is very unfair — to Trump. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief
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Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at how Amal Clooney's high-profile relationships and strategy of exposing legal anomalies in past cases could help Reuters reporters on trial in Myanmar — At the end of May—more than six months after they were first arrested—Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo expect …
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Farai Chideya / Columbia Journalism Review:
Only 4 of 15 major news outlets responded to a survey of political press corps makeup in 2016, indicating overall lack of transparency about newsroom diversity — President Lyndon Baines Johnson with some members of the Kerner Commission in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, DC, 1967.
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Joseph Otterson / Variety:
Viacom's BET Networks announces that Debra Lee is stepping down as chairman and CEO on May 28 — Debra Lee is stepping down from her position as chairman and CEO of BET Networks effective May 28, the company announced Thursday. — Lee began her career with the company as its first vice president and general counsel in 1986.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Time Inc UK to rebrand as TI Media following its sale in February; company closed InStyle UK this week, will stop publishing women's magazine Look on May 29 — Time Inc UK will change its name to TI Media next month to mark the publisher's “next chapter” after it was bought by a private equity firm.
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