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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Ian Buruma, editor of NYRB, has left his position amid an uproar over publication of an essay by Jian Ghomeshi, a former broadcaster accused of sexual assault — Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books, left his position on Wednesday amid an uproar over the magazine's publication …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: BuzzFeed is cutting its in-house podcast production team and shutting down most of its podcasts, as it shifts resources towards original video content — Digital-media company looks to shift resources away from audio to focus on producing more original shows
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New York Times:
A look at Facebook's plans to fight disinformation, monitor false news, and delete fake accounts, as US midterm elections loom in seven weeks — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of Facebook's campus, an approximately 25-foot by 35-foot conference room is under construction.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: group led by UK investor Ian Osborne is in talks to buy Fortune; Meredith's Alan Murray says multiple bidders exist and doubts deal will occur in 2018 — Marc Benioff was going to buy the business magazine but bought Time instead. Now there's a new round of would-be buyers.
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Senate passes the Music Modernization Act, which will improve artist payouts from streaming giants, royalties for pre-1972 songs, and payouts to producers — The Senate cleared a bill late on Tuesday, the Music Modernization Act, that will dramatically restructure the way royalties are handed …
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Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Marc Benioff describes Time magazine as a “start-up”, says the magazine is profitable, and he has faith in the current management team — Marc Benioff has bought Time, becoming the latest technology mogul to invest in a media property. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
A former Harper's editor says staff concerns about an essay by John Hockenberry were dismissed: “No one in editorial was in support of the Hockenberry article” — “The entire editorial staff shared a feeling, and it was dismissed,” former managing editor Hasan Altaf said.
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Jon Caramanica / New York Times:
The rise of social media, coupled with YouTube stars minute-by-minute documentation of their lives, is making celebrity journalism irrelevant — All glossy magazine superstar covers may look the same from a distance, but inside, you're never quite sure what you'll find.
Press Gazette:
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright says he will not rule out a levy on tech giants to fund newsrooms and the battle against fake news — Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has said he will not rule out a levy on tech giants to fund responsible journalism. — Wright has said it would be …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
CEO Bob Bakish says Viacom is not interested in creating a Netflix-like streaming service: ""We see that space as becoming crowded and quite capital-intensive" — Bob Bakish tells the Royal Television Society conference in London that he expects the Paramount Television production business …
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Ioan Grillo / Esquire:
A look at the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, co-founder of the country's weekly newsmagazine Ríodoce, and how the case became known worldwide — El Chapo, Mexico's most notorious drug lord, sits in an American jail, awaiting his trial next month in Brooklyn.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ITV appoints Reema Sakhan, currently Senior VP at streaming service Britbox US and Canada, to oversee its forthcoming SVOD effort — CEO Carolyn McCall and other top executives of the U.K. TV giant speak at the company's Capital Markets Day in London. — ITV CEO Carolyn McCall told analysts …
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