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Les Moonves to remain CEO of CBS while outside counsel investigates accusations of sexual misconduct; board postpones August 10 stockholder meeting — Leslie Moonves will remain as CEO of CBS Corporation while accusations of sexual misconduct against the Hollywood kingpin are investigated by outside council.
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Colbert reacts to Moonves news: “Accountability is meaningless, unless it's for everybody, whether it's the leader of a network or the leader of the free world” — “I'll have some more to say about this over there at the desk later, assuming we make it past the commercial break."
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Dean Baquet says he doesn't attend off the record meetings to discuss content because he doesn't think officials should be able to tell him what to publish — When President Donald Trump broke an off-the-record agreement after he met with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger …
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Sources: Anna Wintour gave Beyoncé full control over Vogue's September issue cover story, which will feature the first Vogue cover by a black photographer — And for the first time ever, a black photographer has shot the cover. — Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour gave Beyoncé …
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Activist releases 11K+ private WikiLeaks DMs showing antisemitic and transphobic messages and how WikiLeaks would coordinate smear campaigns against rivals — Emma Best, a freedom of information activist, has published a large cache of Twitter direct messages between Wikileaks …
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Newsroom employment: fell 23% overall between 2008 and 2017; down 45% at newspapers; up 79% in digital-native sector, increase doesn't offset newspaper losses — Newsroom employment across the United States continues to decline, driven primarily by job losses at newspapers.
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Spotify's global head of creator services Troy Carter to depart in early September; rumors of Carter's exit spread after he resisted “anti-hate” policies — Troy Carter will be leaving Spotify, Variety has confirmed. He will stay on through early September after which he'll assume …


Far-right conspiracy theorists reach top of YouTube search results with a smear campaign against celebrities, others as YouTube struggles to curtail false info — The video portal has been repeatedly criticized for not curtailing videos of conspiracy theories and false information on its platform.
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Twitter finishes its review of proposals for improving the health of discourse on the platform and is working with two academic teams on echo chambers, more — Twitter is partnering with two groups of academic researchers to figure out how to measure the health of conversations happening on the platform.
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Twitter names Nick Sallon head of its US news content partnerships — TJ Adeshola will lead U.S. sports deals; Nick Sallon to lead U.S. news partnerships — Twitter has filled some key roles in its reorganized content partnerships group in the U.S. — promoting company insiders instead of outside hires.
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Vivendi says it will sell up to half of Universal Music Group in the fall amid a boom in revenue from music streaming in the industry and rules out an IPO — PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi is considering selling up to 50 percent of its UMG music division to one or more strategic partners …


Belgian museums complain about Facebook rejecting ads with paintings of Flemish Masters like Rubens; company says it is reviewing its approach to nudity in art — BRUSSELS (AP) — For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure.
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