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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast's Chief Executive Bob Sauerberg is stepping down, with the company to combine its US and international operations under a new global CEO — Publisher says Condé Nast and Condé Nast International will combine — Condé Nast said Chief Executive Bob Sauerberg …
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Variety, The Wrap, CNN, Ad Age, @oliverdarcy, @ennisnyt, @david_marcelis and @edmundlee
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Fox & Friends allowed then EPA chief Pruitt to choose which topics he would discuss on the show, sent questions in advance, and even gave approval over script — The president's favorite cable-news show shared its interview scripts and its oh-so-hard-hitting questions in advance with an embattled Trump official.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist CEO Chris Stibbs has stepped down following the departures of CTO Michael Brincat, CFO Toby Burton, and The Economist Group president, Paul Rossi — The Economist CEO Chris Stibbs has stepped down from his post after five and a half years and 13 years at the publisher.
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Press Gazette and The Drum
The Guardian:
Sources: Paul Manafort had multiple meetings with WikiLeaks, including one meeting in 2016, just months before WikiLeaks released DNC dossier — Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published — Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks …
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Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk:
Current and former employees of news orgs sponsored by the blockchain startup Civil say they haven't received the compensation they were promised when hired — Civil was supposed to create a more transparent and democratic model for journalism. But so far, journalists working on its platform …
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@jcassano, @dansinker, Poynter, @nathanielpopper, @thestalwart, @atrubek, @cwarzel, @asanwal, @davidklion, @digiphile and @mdudas, more at Techmeme »
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Chair of UK fake news inquiry: seized trove of Facebook docs shows FB engineer flagged Russian “entities” as pulling billions of FB data points per day in 2014 — Facebook claimed engineers later “found no evidence of specific Russian activity”.
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BuzzFeed News, @markdistef, @passantino and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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Press Gazette:
MP leading UK ‘fake news’ inquiry seizes internal Facebook documents using parliamentary legal powers — A cache of internal Facebook documents has been seized using Parliament's legal powers as MPs probe the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. — The documents are said to shed light …
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@rmac18, @brianstelter, CNN, @markdistef, @kagrox, @mikarv, @jamiejbartlett, @carolecadwalla, @ebruenig, @carolecadwalla, @carolecadwalla, @xeni and @guyverhofstadt
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A look at Fox Nation, Fox News' streaming service, as it launches with a range of programming from cooking shows to a weekly broadcast with Diamond & Silk — If you have ever wondered about the culinary skills of a “Fox & Friends” co-host, wonder no longer.
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Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Week and Outkick the Coverage
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Complex's food vertical First We Feast generates 85% of its revenue outside ads, including from its hot sauce brand which should generate $7M in sales in 2018 — In June, heading into the sixth season of “Hot Ones,” Complex Networks and its food vertical First We Feast released two new hot sauces featured in the hit interview series.
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@cschonberger, @digiday, @michellcclark and @richantoniello
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Technology columnist and writer Farhad Manjoo is joining the New York Times Opinion team, moving away from the paper's Business section — Farhad Manjoo has been named a New York Times opinion columnist. — Here is an announcement from editorial page editor James Bennet, deputy editor Jim Dao and deputy editor Katie Kingsbury.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Conservative columnist Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, has deactivated his Twitter account after Twitter banned conservative radio show host Jesse Kelly — Wake me up when this sad little uprising is over. — If you checked the conservative end of your Twitter feed when you signed this morning, you probably found it a tad lighter.
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PJ Media, The Gateway Pundit, The Federalist and Mediaite
Mia Galuppo / Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon Studios has signed a first-look deal with Viola Davis' production company, JuVee Productions, as streaming services continue to lock down big names — Under the deal, Davis and Julius Tennon will make features for the streaming service. — JuVee Productions, the shingle headed …
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@thr
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Harvey Weinstein's lawyer plans to file a motion attacking credibility of witnesses, following discovery of emails between Weinstein and his accusers — Harvey Weinstein's attorney is preparing a preemptive strike, looking to undermine the accounts of additional accusers before they are brought into his sexual assault case.
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