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Benjamin Goggin / Business Insider:
In a tweet, Tucker Carlson defends himself against assault allegations from a new client of Michael Avenatti's, after video from a Charlottesville club surfaces — - Tucker Carlson appeared to break a Fox News Twitter blackout to defend himself from assault allegations.
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Business Insider:
In an internal email sent following Tucker Carlson protests, Fox News asked employees not to tweet any Fox stories from their business or personal accounts — - According to an internal email obtained by Business Insider, Fox News has asked its employees not to tweet out theirs …
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Mediaite, Slate, @willoremus, @rasmus_kleis, Raw Story and Newser
Wall Street Journal:
A look at the tug of war between the data driven tech team and the relationship-oriented Hollywood team at Netflix — As the company plunges deeper into originals, its L.A. wing is doing the once-unthinkable: overriding the metrics — Netflix Inc.'s executives were torn.
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@asharma, @sub8u, @memles, @trevornoren, @jbflint and @filmmakermag, more at Techmeme »
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
After Trump denied Jim Acosta a press pass, networks and WH reporters were left with a choice to protest the move or do nothing, and both options have drawbacks — The CNN chief Jeff Zucker gave his troops unexpected orders the day after President Trump snatched the press credential away from Jim Acosta …
Emma Grey Ellis / Wired:
Changing viewing habits and a desire for more ad revenue are prompting YouTube creators to post ever longer videos — ONE MONTH AGO, a dog I have never met died. His owners are YouTubers Simon and Martina, a Canadian couple who make videos about the delicious food they eat in Tokyo, where they live.
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Ad Age, @jamcnn, @nxthompson, @_danielsinclair and @wired
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
New York Media, parent company to New York magazine, will launch a paywall for its sites in the last week of November with $5/month or $50/year subscriptions — Information may want to be free, as an aphorism had it in the early days of digital media. But these days, increasingly, journalism wants to be paid for.
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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: the owner of the Daily Mail is drawing up plans to make an offer for the i, a newspaper currently owned by Johnston Press — The owner of the Daily Mail is plotting to buy the i in a move that would expand its share of the national newspaper market during a period of turbulence for the UK's biggest publishers .
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The Drum, HoldtheFrontPage, Press Gazette, Reuters and Telegraph
Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times:
The Philippines says it will charge news site Rappler and founder Maria Ressa for tax evasion; Rappler accuses government of trying to silence critical coverage — SHANGHAI — The Philippine government said on Friday that it would charge a veteran journalist and her online news start-up with tax evasion …
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Poynter, RAPPLER, Fortune, @emilybell, @icfj, @mcaruanagalizia, @katestarbird, @cward1e, @luminategroup, @mariaressa, @ldelpuerto, @anneapplebaum, @dangillmor, @dangillmor, The Guardian, @indira_l, @elisegaro, @andrewfeinberg, @kixes, @davidakaye, International Center …, @robertmmahoney, @ohnopaige, @amlwhere, @katestarbird, RAPPLER, @rasmus_kleis, @mthomps, @sominisengupta, @calvinstowell, @lpolgreen and @jayrosen_nyu
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC will air picture in picture ads that puts the ad in the corner of the screen without cutting away from broadcast for People's Choice Awards — Viewers who tune in to the broadcast of the 2018 People's Choice Awards this weekend on E! won't have to work too hard to find advertisers getting in on the event.
Axios:
Incoming House intelligence chairman says Dems plan to investigate if Trump used “the instruments of state power to punish the press” in targeting WaPo, CNN — House Democrats plan to investigate whether President Trump abused White House power by targeting — and trying to punish with …
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Fortune, @jonathanvswan, @matthewstoller, New York Times, @brianstelter, @meganmurp, @joeconchatv, Engadget, Mediaite, Variety and TVNewser
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Profile of Civio, a data-driven nonprofit news site from Spain that uses its reporting to lobby the government and propose amendments, which have become law — If you spend dozens of hours learning about a subject — say, government procurements — for an article, you might want to find …
Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the history and evolution of the black press, as some specific newspapers dwindled but a network of journalists and writers remains — In the sixties, the population of Clarksville, a small town in East Texas, was 70 percent white and 30 percent black.
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