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Maureen Ryan / Hollywood Reporter:
Brad Kern, a consulting producer on NCIS: New Orleans, has been fired by CBS Television Studios following a third HR probe into harassment and other allegations — A third investigation into the former ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ showrunner has resulted in his dismissal from the CBS procedural and his overall deal being terminated.
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Sony's Ministry of Sound in the UK strikes a deal with Apple Music to provide exclusive playlists starting Thursday, effectively shutting out Spotify — Apple Music and the Ministry of Sound label have struck an exclusive playlist deal that will effectively shut out Spotify, a rep for Apple confirmed to Variety.
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Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Filing: Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment bought 68M+ shares in Tencent Music Entertainment ahead of its US IPO for a cash aggregate of ~$200M — MBW has started digging through Tencent Music Entertainment's IPO filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Erin Arvedlund / Philly.com:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and watchdog outlet The Caucus are joining forces to cover the state with a project called Spotlight PA — At a time of dwindling resources for news, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Caucus …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Singapore legislation, expected to pass next year, will give the government “powers to swiftly disrupt the spread and influence of online falsehoods” — Government hearings in Singapore put Facebook under intense scrutiny and have paved the way for a new fake news law in the country.
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
The Google News Initiative has launched a beta version of a search engine to find fact-checking posts from sources like Snopes and PolitiFact — Google wants to make it easier for people to find fact checks. To do that, the company is building another version of what it's most known for: a search engine.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
NYT says it shouldn't have assigned Emily Bazelon, a magazine writer who criticized Kavanaugh on Twitter, to story on Kavanaugh's alleged role in bar fight — NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times said Tuesday that it should not have assigned a writer who criticized Brett Kavanaugh on social media …
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
White House corrects transcript from press conference to reflect Trump insulting ABC journalist Cecilia Vega by saying that she never thinks — The White House on Tuesday corrected its official transcript of President Donald Trump's Monday press conference in which he insulted an ABC reporter.
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Samantha Cole / Motherboard:
Wikipedia editors have voted to classify Breitbart as an unreliable reference for facts and decided that Infowars should be generally prohibited as a source — Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can't be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.”
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Legal battle for filmmaker Brett Ratner, who stopped working on Warner Bros. jobs last year amid sexual misconduct claims, ends with no money changing hands — EXCLUSIVE: (Updated with additional lawyers' statement) Nearly a year after she claimed that Brett Ratner sexually assaulted …
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Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs:
Internet Archive says that 9M formerly broken links on Wikipedia now automatically go to archived versions on the Wayback Machine — As part of the Internet Archive's aim to build a better Web, we have been working to make the Web more reliable — and are pleased to announce …
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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post and a prominent critic of Saudi Arabia, has disappeared after entering Saudi consulate in Istanbul — Our contributor Jamal Khashoggi entered the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul on Tuesday afternoon. Many hours later, there is still no news from him.
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