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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Abusive media moguls shaped a misogynistic culture with damage far beyond specific cases of sexual harassment — Two moments on Wednesday. Both startling, both telling. — Jericka Duncan, live on the CBS Evening News, looked unflinchingly into the camera as she explained how the story …
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Jeff Fager warned CBS correspondent Jericka Duncan in a text about reporting on claims against him: “There are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me”
Jeff Fager warned CBS correspondent Jericka Duncan in a text about reporting on claims against him: “There are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me”
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Memo: 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager is leaving CBS amid allegations of inappropriate conduct; CBS News president says Fager violated company policy
Memo: 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager is leaving CBS amid allegations of inappropriate conduct; CBS News president says Fager violated company policy
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
A dispute between ThinkProgress and The Weekly Standard Fact Check shows weaknesses in Facebook guidelines for fact checking and dangers of partisan biases — Despite its global user base, Facebook's actions against misinformation keep being informed by and analyzed with a narrowly American viewpoint.
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Antonia Woodford / Facebook:
Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text — We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we've made fighting misinformation a priority.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why The Outline, which announced it had raised $5M in May and appeared healthy, suddenly laid off writers this month after aggressive early expansion — Photo via Adobe Stock. — It began, as so many similar stories do, with a series of tweets. On September 4th, a writer at The Outline …
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Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:
Panoply won't produce new podcasts and is laying off its editorial staff, though some existing shows will move to Slate, as it focuses on ad tech and hosting — (1) Panoply appears to be out of the content business. Several sources in the company inform me that, earlier this afternoon …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Endeavor, an entertainment and sports conglomerate, creates Endeavor Audio, a new podcast division run by Moses Soyoola, formerly of Panoply — LOS ANGELES — Fifty-six percent of Americans have never listened to a podcast. One of Hollywood's most aggressive companies wants to change that …
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Wall Street Journal:
In interview, AT&T's Randall Stephenson says he wants to shift resources to HBO and that consumer data should help inform content decisions — Randall Stephenson wants to use customer data to help WarnerMedia pick projects, challenge internet giants — AT&T Inc.'s T 2.30% boss …
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Rob Wijnberg / The Correspondent:
Co-founder and editor in chief of De Correspondent Rob Wijnberg on the problems surrounding “real news”, as his team prepares to expand to the US — Forget fake news, a poisonous term. Real news is an even bigger problem. — This realization is what inspired me to found …
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Jim Nelson, EIC of GQ, is leaving the Condé Nast magazine he has led since 2003 and will be replaced by Will Welch, EIC of GQ Style — Jim Nelson, the editor-in-chief of GQ, is leaving the magazine he helmed since 2003, The Post has learned.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube Kids app adds an “older” filter for profiles of kids 8-12 and adds ability for parents to select and whitelist videos on Android, with iOS coming soon — YouTube Kids' latest update is giving parents more control over what their kids watch.
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Lars Brandle / Billboard:
A trade group for Australian music labels says total music sales rose 6% to A$195.6M in 2018's first half, with the digital sector rising 14.2% to A$162.5M — Australia's music industry is on the up, with labels trade body ARIA and authors' rights society APRA both reporting strong gains.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Snapchat enlists 20 news partners including CNN and NBC to create Curated Our Stories, or curated stories with user-generated content in the Discover section — Snap is launching a new feature that will let media companies access public posts made by Snapchat users and package …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Comparing The News & Observer's coverage of Hurricane Floyd in 1999 with staff of 250 to its coverage of Florence with staff of 65 and 7 nearby sister papers — The last time a hurricane took direct aim at North Carolina, back in 1999, the Raleigh News & Observer mobilized most of the 250 people …
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Wall Street Journal:
iHeartMedia buys Stuff Media, which produces podcasts like “How Stuff Works” and “Atlanta Monster”; sources say the acquisition cost $55M — The radio giant is ramping up its investment in the fast-growing podcasting business — iHeartMedia Inc. IHRTQ -16.27% …
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James Vincent / The Verge:
EU Parliament approves controversial internet copyright law, including Articles 11 and 13, dubbed the “link tax” and “upload filter” — Key provisions were amended to reduce potential harm, but critics say vote is ‘catastrophic’ — The European Parliament has voted …
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Reddit says EU's copyright law is “a significant blow to the open Internet”; Wikimedia says it's disappointed by “the missed opportunity to modernize copyright”
Reddit says EU's copyright law is “a significant blow to the open Internet”; Wikimedia says it's disappointed by “the missed opportunity to modernize copyright”
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Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Under the EU's new copyright directive, streaming services like Amazon and Netflix will be forced to pay higher copyright fees to filmmakers
Under the EU's new copyright directive, streaming services like Amazon and Netflix will be forced to pay higher copyright fees to filmmakers
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