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Sources detail Andy Lack's mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations at Sony Music and how he and other NBC News execs mishandled #metoo stories and cases — A Sony executive who sent porn to women at work. An alleged harasser who reviewed NBC's Weinstein story.
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: as financial pressures rise, Mic Network is considering an acquisition offer from a media company, among other strategic options — Mic Network board met last week to consider offer, as financial pressures mount — Digital publisher Mic Network is considering an acquisition offer …
Variety:
Sources: NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt to meet with NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke to work out an exit plan, departure may come as late as May 2019 — Bob Greenblatt is preparing to leave his post as NBC Entertainment chairman after leading the network's turnaround during the past eight years.
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Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider:
Investigation finds that Instagram's IGTV recommended disturbing and potentially illegal videos in UK; Instagram took five days to remove some of the videos — - Exclusive: Instagram's new TV service, IGTV, recommended videos of what appeared to be child exploitation and genital mutilation during …
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David Beard / Poynter:
After BuzzFeed's cuts to its audio team and Panoply's exit from podcast content, creators re-evaluate podcast revenue potential and audience measurement — Moving from one shiny object to another: “Everybody wants a ‘Serial,’ but nobody wants to spend ‘Serial’ money,” says one veteran podcast editor.
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Report: U.S. Ad Market Expands 6.1% In First Half, 2018 Poised To Break $200 Billion Mark — U.S. ad spending is expanding at a higher rate than anticipated — jumping 5.8% in the second quarter after rising 6.5% in the first quarter — and is now on pace to reach a new all-time high for full-year 2018 …
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David Beard / Poynter:
How Golf Digest helped to free a wrongfully convicted man who spent 27 years in prison after he wrote the magazine about his collection of golf course drawings — The Poynter Institute's Morning Mediawire breaks down and delivers the most important stories you need to start your day.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Brooke Masters, FT's Comment and Analysis editor about her efforts to diversify the paper's opinion section — “She wrote a fabulous piece that did incredibly well and I think there's no way on earth that (a) she would have submitted or (b) it would have run, before we started this stuff.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
PayPal says it has banned all Infowars-related sites for promoting hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions — PayPal will no longer do business with Infowars, according to a post on the conspiracy theory site this morning.
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Jennifer Pak / Marketplace:
China's “pay-for-knowledge” economy, primarily podcasts with subscription fees, is estimated at $7.3B in 2017, compared to US ad-driven podcast revenue of $314M — Listen To The Story — Marketplace — Chen Jun, 34, rents a small apartment in Shanghai.
Allison Jackson / Agence France-Presse:
Thirteen journalists have been killed in Afghanistan in 2018, the highest number killed in the country in a single year since the start of the war — Moments after Afghan journalist Samim Faramarz wrapped up his live report on the latest suicide attack in Kabul, a car bomb exploded just metres away …
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Howard R. Gold / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ten years after the Recession, journalists acknowledge missing the big story tying subprime housing loans to complex derivatives, but say they learned lessons — Lehman Brothers headquarters on September 15, 2008. Photo: Robert Scoble via flickr. — Ten years ago, Lehman Brothers …
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