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Sources: NY Post's former EIC, Col Allan, now an adviser to the outlet, ordered a story removed on E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault allegations against Trump — New York (CNN)The New York Post's former top editor, a supporter of President Trump and an old lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch …
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Katie Sullivan / Media Matters for America:
NYT, WSJ, Chicago Tribune, and LAT left the report of sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll by Trump off their front pages; WaPo placed it below the fold — A new report of sexual assault committed by President Donald Trump has come to light, but several major newspapers didn't find …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: BuzzFeed's chairman, Ken Lerer, is stepping down after more than ten years — BuzzFeed Chairman Ken Lerer is stepping down from his role after overseeing the viral internet publisher for over 10 years, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
LinkedIn to announce changes to its algorithm, designed to favor posts that cater to niche professional interests, as opposed to elevating viral content — Linkedin will today announce algorithm changes made over the past 12-18 months to favor conversations in its Feed that cater …
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Profile of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro and her decades-long friendship with Trump; Trump considered her for a top Justice Department job under Jeff Sessions — Donald Trump had been in the race for six weeks, and he had already stumbled into another controversy.
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Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
LiveRamp will pay $150M to acquire ad exposure startup Data Plus Math, to help advertisers buy and analyze targeted ads both on traditional and streaming TV — Cash-and-stock deal, valued at $150 million, combines companies' data sets that help advertisers check efficiency of campaigns
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Agencies are packaging brand-safe YouTube ad inventory from broadcast and digital studio partners to reassure cautious advertisers deterred by platform scandals — U.K. agencies are finding new ways to package premium YouTube inventory from broadcast and digital studio partners.
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Study: 44% of UK's newspaper columnists went to private schools vs. 7% national average, 44% went to Oxbridge vs. <1% of national average — The proportion of privately-educated top journalists has fallen over the past five years but the media continues to be one of the UK's most elite professions, new research has shown.
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Suzy Hansen / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the Demirörens, staunch supporters of President Erdoğan, have transformed Turkish media, overseeing a third of Turkey's news outlets, including CNN Türk — How Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took control of the media and handed it to a crony — The neighborhood of Bebek …
Reuters:
Chinese Netflix equivalent iQiyi announces it has reached 100M subscribers; senior exec says it intends to expand into other Asian countries and North America — BEIJING (Reuters) - iQiyi, China's answer to Netflix, intends to push harder into overseas markets such as North America and Japan …
Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
Inside Babe.net, which rose to prominence publishing a photographer's sexual encounter with Aziz Ansari and closed this year after failing to secure funding — In the spring of 2018, I visited the offices of the millennial/Gen-Z-oriented website babe.net, a sunny loft space in Williamsburg, just around the corner from Vice.
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Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable:
Ad-supported TV streaming service Tubi says it has 20M monthly active users, surpassing Pluto TV, which said last month that it had 16M MAUs — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links. — Tubi announced today …
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