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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
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Martin Sorrell has purchased a 75% stake in Derriston Capital, to be renamed S4 Capital, with the aim of building a next-generation WPP — Former boss of world's biggest advertising group reveals he is already in takeover talks — Sir Martin Sorrell has revealed he is in takeover talks …
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Chartbeat Blog:
Direct mobile traffic to publisher sites surpasses referral traffic from Facebook, including desktop and mobile, for the first time — 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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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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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.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Washington Post offers a $90/year “premium EU subscription” with no ads and no data tracking to EU visitors in the wake of GDPR; a basic sub costs $60/year — Some U.S. publishers have blocked visitors from the E.U. to their sites rather than comply with the wide-ranging …
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
As Elon Musk feuds with media, a look back at the late 1990s, when he helped found Zip2 to assist newspapers with digital listings and netted $22M from its sale — We might as well begin with the most generous interpretation of Elon Musk's peculiar behavior.
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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
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Recode:
Interview with James Murdoch at Code Conference on Disney agreement, Comcast bid, Hulu's subscribers, the future of advertising, and the future of Fox — “You look at all of this crazy stuff in the news industry, news and entertainment industry but I mean, it looks like nobody can keep their pants on."
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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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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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Axel Springer open sources its GDPR consent management tools, which can be adapted to address cookie-consent requirements under pending ePrivacy regulations — Publishers are griping about Google's power play regarding General Data Protection Regulation compliance.
Robbie Gonzalez / Wired:
Facebook will give researchers encrypted laptops to access Facebook's data and publish findings without pre-approval, in push to prevent abuse during elections — FACEBOOK IS KEEPING a close eye on misinformation in the lead-up to 2018's elections. Which elections, exactly?
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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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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