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Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will not be nominated for re-election to Facebook's board, where he has served since 2011 — - Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will not be nominated for re-election at the company's 2019 annual stockholders meetings, Facebook said on Friday.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Assange is hard to defend, but prosecuting him would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations — For press-freedom advocates, Julian Assange has long been a polarizing figure. — And his arrest Thursday in London once again ignited the seemingly endless debate:
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CNN:
First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams on Assange's case: relief that the Espionage Act wasn't used, but “some level of broader risk” still exists for journalists
First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams on Assange's case: relief that the Espionage Act wasn't used, but “some level of broader risk” still exists for journalists
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The Guardian:
Julian Assange arrested for alleged breach of bail and in connection to a US extradition warrant as Ecuador withdraws asylum after seven years
Julian Assange arrested for alleged breach of bail and in connection to a US extradition warrant as Ecuador withdraws asylum after seven years
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
DOJ charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly assisting Chelsea Manning in an attempt to crack a DOD password
DOJ charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly assisting Chelsea Manning in an attempt to crack a DOD password
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
HQ Trivia confirms Scott Rogowsky, its primetime host who had become the de facto face of the company, has left and will be replaced by Matt Richards — Quiz Khalifa aka Host Malone aka Trap Trebek aka HQ Trivia's Scott Rogowsky has been pushed out of the live mobile gaming startup.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Inside Univision's acquisitions of Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion, where mismanagement and shifting priorities lead to eventual sale of the properties — Last July, hours before Univision announced that it was looking to sell Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion, Univision CEO Vincent Sadusky gathered …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Filing: former CBS CEO Les Moonves forfeited $34.5M in stock awards in 2018; Joseph Ianniello, who took over from Moonves, received $27.4M in compensation — Former CBS chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves forfeited $34.5 million in CBS stock awards last year as part of the settlement agreement …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Though some argue that Fox News' influence is overstated, the network is the primary source of narratives, validation, and attention in the right-wing ecosystem — A debate is brewing about just how much influence Fox News exerts over the United States. In a New Yorker piece …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
New York Post gossip columnist Richard Johnson says he is retiring after four decades at the publication; his final column runs Sunday — The chronicler of canoodlings, bloviations, and pepperpots, enemy of Alec Baldwin and the Daily Snooze, occasional pugilist, and fast friend of anyone …
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Graydon Carter / Hollywood Reporter:
Graydon Carter on the glory days of magazine expense accounts, life after Vanity Fair, and the July launch of his newsletter, Air Mail — Sure, the perks, pleasures and expense accounts of a vanishing print business have been replaced by digital churns and dubious Facebook ads …
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@erik_hayden, @sethabramovitch and The Daily Caller
Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Cooper Hefner, son of Hugh, is leaving his executive post at Playboy to launch his own company, including a site with news and adult content, named HefPost — After Hugh Hefner's death Sept. 17, 2017, his son Cooper Hefner had been the highest ranking Hefner in the family business, Playboy Enterprises.
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney+ will be available starting November 12 for $6.99 a month or $69.99 per year — - Disney announced Thursday at the company's investor day that Disney+ will be available starting on November 12 for $6.99 per month or $69 per year — Disney has already confirmed a number …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: YouTube has introduced two new internal metrics in the past two years: total time spent on site and the murkier “quality watch time” — YouTube is changing the way it measures success on the world's biggest video site following a series of scandals.
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
A look at Facebook's transparency tool that shows a user which advertisers used a contact list with information about that specific user — On Facebook under Settings, there's a page in the Ads section where you can view your Ad Preferences. Most of this is fairly straightforward …
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@alexstamos, @katienotopoulos, @antoniogm, @carnage4life and @katienotopoulos
Reuters:
Inside the Cekfakta Initiative, which brings together 24 news publishers and fact-checking org Mafindo to fight fake news ahead of the Indonesian elections — JAKARTA (Reuters) - Armed with laptops, three dozen journalists and fact-checkers braced for battle before a live debate between …