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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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CBS News:
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
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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
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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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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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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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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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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Killings of journalists in Pakistan decline, but so does press freedom under military restrictions; reporters who push back are attacked, threatened, arrested — As killings of journalists in Pakistan decline so too does press freedom, as the country's powerful military quietly, but effectively …
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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Cherie Hu / Billboard:
MusicWatch: paid music streaming subscribers surpass 50M in US, nearly double end of 2016 numbers, with ~20M separate users sharing but not paying for access — An estimated 51 million people in the U.S. are now paying monthly subscriptions for music streaming services …
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 …
George P. Slefo / Ad Age:
Spotify CMO Seth Farbman to leave the company at the end of the month as it decentralizes marketing functions — Seth Farbman, chief marketing officer at Spotify, is leaving the company at the end of the month to pursue other opportunities, according to a 6-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Rebecca Stewart / The Drum:
YouTube will now allow vertical ads, which take up the entire screen, and let brands buy ad space based on users' personalized recommendations — YouTube is embracing vertical video ads to let brands “provide a more seamless mobile experience” for viewers, it revealed at Dmexco today …
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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” — Google declined to directly criticize the directive — Today, the European Partliament voted in favor …
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