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CBS Corporation:
Moonves out from CBS, $20M to be donated to #MeToo orgs out of his severance; COO Joseph Ianniello to become acting CEO; CBS and National Amusements to settle — Leslie Moonves Departs as Chairman and CEO; Joseph Ianniello, COO, Appointed President and Acting CEO
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Six more women accuse CBS CEO Leslie Moonves of sexual harassment or assault in incidents that occurred between the 1980s and early 2000s — Members of the board of the CBS Corporation are negotiating with the company's chairman and C.E.O., Leslie Moonves, about his departure.
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New York Times:
NYT Op-Ed Editor James Dao answers questions about anonymous op-ed on Trump: “senior administration official” is a broad category, writer's motives were weighed — The New York Times's Opinion desk published an Op-Ed by an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration on Wednesday.
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Jacob Silverman / The Baffler:
How Campbell Brown aims to repair the relationship between Facebook and publishers but is undermining the news institutions she claims to support — THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACEBOOK and news publishers is a bizarre charade, peopled by unreliable characters, dotted with contradictions, suffused with dependency and resentment.
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Polina Devitt / Reuters:
Google removed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's YouTube ad inviting Russians to join protests after authorities complained it violated election law — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after authorities complained …
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New York Times:
Profile of Alex Jones, whose Infowars serves as both a conspiracy-focused media outlet and an online store for selling products that purport to improve health — AUSTIN — More than ever before in his two-decade career built on baseless conspiracy theories, angry nativist rants and end …
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BuzzFeed News:
Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store — One day after his ban from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been kicked off yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars and Infowars app return no results.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists have trouble covering the nationwide prison strike because info is limited to official accounts and prisoners' speech and access are curtailed — The Lee Correctional Institution. Photo by Tim Dominick/The State Newspaper. — On a Monday in April, at Lee Correctional Facility …
Anh Nguyen / The Lenfest Institute for Journalism:
Case study of Philly's The Metro Chinese Weekly, which uses a WeChat microsite, Navigasian, to link local businesses and customers; 70 clients pay $4,740/year — More than 1 billion people use the Chinese messaging app WeChat each month. Not surprisingly, the app's reach spreads far beyond China's borders …
Columbia Journalism Review:
The Boston Globe recently apologized to a female congressional candidate over its image choice; use of sexist language is on decline but still impacts readers — Image via Pixabay. — As any woman will tell you, sexism and gender stereotyping are not always overt—in life, or in the media.
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Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
Though BuzzFeed's publication of an email from Elon Musk marked “off the record” meets journalistic standards, the term can be opaque to news consumers — The entrepreneur's reaction to recent media coverage illustrates a common—and dangerous—misconception of reporting practices.
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Aaron Gordon / Slate:
The Athletic has built its editorial staff by poaching local journalists, making dubious claims of disruption, and having stories readers can't find elsewhere — The Athletic's rapid recent launch into the stratosphere of buzzy publications is built on two big ideas.
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