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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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Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
Pew poll: 62% of urban residents say their local news media mainly cover their area; 57% of rural residents say their local media mostly cover some other area — Americans in urban communities are more likely to say local news media mostly cover the area where they live …
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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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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@ktbenner, @lenin, @ggreenwald, @scottshanenyt, Poynter, American Press Institute, @eliothiggins, @eliothiggins, The Guardian, @nakashimae, @shiraovide, @wikileaks, @kpoulsen, @micahflee, @jamesrbuk, @ggreenwald, @cenkuygur, @walterpincus, @freedomofpress, @lisamillar, @trevortimm, @trevortimm, @pressfreedom, @nadiakhomami, @jeffjarvis, @timobrien, @eff, @eff, @peterbale, @barryeisler, @mathewi, @brianstelter, Bloomberg, Committee to Protect …, @sam_vinograd, Electronic Frontier Foundation and CyberScoop
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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Kara Swisher / Recode:
Interview with Nancy Pelosi on online privacy, net neutrality, big tech companies and hate speech and antitrust law, and the media response to Trump's tweets — “He's just being a freak.” — Enough people use Twitter to get their information that politicians have to be there, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Twitter has withheld a tweet from TorrentFreak, at the request of Starz, pointing to a news story on recent major leaks of unreleased TV shows — At TorrentFreak, we have been covering copyright and piracy related news for well over a decade. — We write about things that copyright holders …
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@eff, @eff and TorrentFreak
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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Broadcasting & Cable and The Wrap
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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@bryandisagrees, @bluechoochoo, @bubbaprog, @williamturton, @heyveronica and @digiday
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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@chrissgardner, @aterkel, @eriqgardner and @kenli729
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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@joepompeo
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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Politico, @asteadwesley, @jessecharleslee and Media Matters for America
Dave McNary / Variety:
Talks fail between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents; WGA members told to fire agencies that haven't signed its Code of Conduct — Leaders of the Writers Guild of America have told their 15,000 members to fire their agents. — Members began sending …
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