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Dylan Byers / Byers Market:
Sources: Facebook execs “fed up” with NYT coverage and frustrated by a sponsored post on how to leave Facebook; NYT EIC says coverage is separate from business — What's Next: Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives are fed up with The New York Times after weeks …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Media critics say cable news networks should rethink airing President Trump's comments live during press briefings, which can often be PR stunts — New York (CNN)Should cable news networks air President Donald Trump's words in real time? — Since the 2016 campaign, news organizations …
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Jack Hough / Barron's Online:
Bob Iger on Disney's streaming efforts, BAMTech acquisition, and challenges like changing compensation models as the company's new services get closer to launch — Burbank, Calif.—At Walt Disney (DIS) headquarters in this studio-filled city, Suite 3H in the original animation building holds stacks …
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Three of Axios' top technical executives, including its CTO plus multiple design employees, have left in the last six months over tensions about product mission — - Axios has lost its top three technical executives, all in the past six months. — They were heads of technology, product …
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The New York Times Company:
Slate's Chief Political Correspondent Jamelle Bouie is joining The New York Times' Opinion section as a columnist — All: We're very happy to tell you that Jamelle Bouie is joining Times Opinion as a columnist, the newest member of the most excellent and eclectic lineup of opinion voices in English-language journalism.
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New York Times:
Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel app, which is owned by IBM, for slyly using location data for commercial purposes — The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers …
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Kate Erbland / IndieWire:
Despite a shift in attitudes surrounding gender inequality in Hollywood, the fraction of female directors working on top-earning films declined to 8% in 2018 — Although Time's Up and #MeToo caused a major attitude change regarding gender parity in Hollywood, the latest Celluloid Ceiling report …
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Todd VanDerWerff / Vox:
As publications cut back on culture writing or eliminate it entirely, a look at why cultural criticism helps us understand our society better — Cultural criticism is journalism. And in an era when fewer outlets support it, we need more of it, not less — I've been thinking about The Hateful Eight a lot lately.
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Marcus Baram / Fast Company:
In her new book, Jill Abramson says the NYT's publisher drafted a letter “all but apologizing” to the Chinese govt for a Pulitzer-winning story on corruption — In her new book Merchants of Truth, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson claims that the news outlet's publisher drafted …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
How The Weekly Standard met its end, amid pressure from parent company execs and subscribers, as some editors plot an attempt to revive it — The Weekly Standard was killed last month, an act that had both a clear culprit and a muddy forensic trail. For twenty-three years …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix revises its operating expenses, revealing it spent $534M more on streaming operations for the first nine months of 2018 than previously reported — Netflix has changed the way it accounts for personnel expenses related to its streaming service — a move showing the company has invested …
Kendall Baker / Axios:
Axios has acquired Sports Internet, a newsletter run by ex-ESPN staffer and Bleacher Report writer Kendall Baker, and will relaunch it as Axios Sports on Monday — Dearest readers, I'm beyond excited to announce that Sports Internet has been acquired by Axios and will be relaunching as Axios Sports on Monday.