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Joseph Otterson / Variety:
ABC cancels hit sitcom Roseanne after racist tweet from star Roseanne Barr; ABC says tweet was “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values” — ABC has pulled the plug on “Roseanne.” — “Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Talent agency ICM Partners drops Roseanne Barr as a client after her racist tweet and cancellation of sitcom — ICM Partners has dropped Roseanne Barr as a client, hours after the sitcom star sent a racist tweet that spurred ABC to cancel her top-rated sitcom.
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Washington Post, Vox, ABC News, Mediaite and @koblin
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom pulls reruns of the new Roseanne sitcom from Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT; Hulu says it's also dropping the show — ‘Roseanne’ reruns will be cancelled on the three channels starting tomorrow, a Viacom spokesperson said. — After a racist tweet by Roseanne Barr that created …
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The Wrap, Variety, HuffPost, The Ringer, @abc7news, @thr and TVWeek.com
Chartbeat Blog:
Mobile traffic surpasses Facebook traffic to media sites for the first time, signaling device behavior is the real driver of consumption — New data shows that for the first time, mobile direct-to-site traffic has surpassed Facebook. Could this mean that mobile does not equal social after all?
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Digiday and Nieman Lab, more at Techmeme », Thanks:@steverubel
Associated Press:
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, a fierce critic of Kremlin policies, was shot and killed Tuesday in Kiev; police think he was targeted because of his work — MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian journalist was shot and killed in the Ukrainian capital Tuesday, and the national police said he apparently was targeted because of his work.
Avi Asher-Schapiro / Committee to Protect Journalists:
A DNC lawsuit against WikiLeaks raises press freedom questions about whether journalists could be implicated by sources' illegal behavior — In 1993, WILK radio host Frederick Vopper broadcast a conversation intercepted by an illegal wiretap and sent anonymously to the Pennsylvania radio station …
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@emptywheel, @emptywheel, @aaschapiro, @emptywheel, @trevortimm, @freedomofpress, @raju and @ggreenwald
Erin Biba / The Daily Beast:
Female journalists reporting or commenting on Tesla say they face online abuse, including death and rape threats, from supporters of Elon Musk — Female journalists who cover Elon Musk have the same personal rule: Mention his name on Twitter at your peril.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Bankruptcy judge accepts $1M opening bid for Gawker from ad agency Didit, which plans a “good gossip” site: “We'll cover celebrity babies and dating”, not DWIs — Gawker took its first tentative steps toward being revived when a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday accepted …
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Ben Detrick / The Ringer:
Philadelphia 76ers exec Bryan Colangelo has been secretly using five Twitter accounts to criticize players, disclose sensitive info, and share team strategy — A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information …
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Sopan Deb / New York Times:
Q&A with CNN reporter Chloe Melas who, along with colleague An Phung, broke the story about Morgan Freeman after the actor allegedly sexually harassed Melas — Chloe Melas, a reporter for CNN, broke a major story on Thursday: After an investigation that took six months …
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Fox News, @lkherman and @michaelroston
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Paula Rogo / Essence.com:
TV producer Tyra Martin, a woman named by CNN as one of Morgan Freeman's accusers, says the network misrepresented her comments
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@essence, @drboycewatkins1 and TMZ.com
Jackie Strause / Hollywood Reporter:
Morgan Freeman's lawyer writes to CNN President Jeff Zucker, demanding a retraction of the network's story about the actor sexually harassing women
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USA Today, New York Times, Deadline, @evan_rosenfeld, @sopandeb, @anhaiphung, @morninggloria, The Daily Caller and TV Tattle
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Papua New Guinea says it will ban Facebook for a month in a bid to crack down on fake users and study how fake news and pornography spreads — Analysts will explore how fake news and pornography spreads, and assess whether country needs its own version of the platform
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Tronc is buying Virginia's largest paper, Norfolk's The Virginian-Pilot, in an all-cash deal for $34M, becoming the latest conglomerate to buy a local paper — Newspaper conglomerate Tronc, which owns a plethora of local American newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune …
David Gauthier-Villars / Wall Street Journal:
How Turkey is strangling independent media by blocking sites, jailing reporters via terrorism support allegations, and pressuring advertisers to remove ads — As crackdown whittles away media not beholden to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, survivors are strapped for cash, facing prison
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@janetlevinson7 and @mutludc
Trey Williams / The Wrap:
Shari Redstone says National Amusements had already advised Viacom it no longer supported a merger with CBS, before CBS moved to strip her of voting power — Shari Redstone said on Tuesday that she and her family's company, National Amusements Inc., “no longer supported” …
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