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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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Patrick Shanley / Hollywood Reporter:
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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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
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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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
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 …
Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
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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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
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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Ben Collins / NBC News:
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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Variety:
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 …
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
“We see no potential” in competing against Facebook or Google, says Monocle editor Andrew Tuck as he explains the magazine's policy of shunning social media — As media strategies go, declaring “we do no social media whatsoever” is about as unorthodox as, say …
Raf Casert / Associated Press:
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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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Guardian Australia says it has an operating profit of $700K and $65K paying readers, turning it profitable and on sustainable footing five years after launch — Five years after launch the news site now employs 80 people and is visited by more than one in eight Australians online each month
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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
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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