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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Interview with Bob Iger about his new book “The Ride of a Lifetime,” the Fox deal, pulling the plug on buying Twitter, running for President, more — Hollywood's nicest C.E.O. on the great family dramas of Hollywood — and why he, too, is disturbed by Twitter.
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
How Vice Media is streamlining its sprawling international teams, with tools like a common editorial calendar as well as restructuring its leadership team — Vice Media has revealed a major global restructure which will see the publisher's international digital teams work more cohesively and under a single …
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Terry Gross / NPR:
Interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who is receiving a lifetime achievement Emmy on Sept. 24, on covering Reagan, Clinton, and the current administration — Toggle more options — Mitchell, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News and anchor of her own MSNBC show, looks back on her career in journalism.
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@pennsas, @mayawiley, @davidgura, @nprfreshair and @spj_tweets
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
A look at the new Provincetown Independent in Massachusetts, an example of potential success for newspapers without the massive profits private equity expects — Everyone knows that local newspapers are in trouble. That's why Deb Fallows and I have been chronicling examples of smaller papers …
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@jcstearns, @jamesfallows and @niemanreports
Ben Judah / The Atlantic:
Profile of Carole Cadwalladr, the UK reporter known for exposing Cambridge Analytica, whose activism and methods have prompted criticism from fellow journalists — LONDON—Carole Cadwalladr is different from the stereotypical British journalist. She is earnest where many are regarded as cynical.
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@sarah_donaldson, @markdistef, @theatlantic, @profcarroll, @jayrosen_nyu, @theatlantic and @lauriechenwords
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
How Chalkbeat, a nonprofit local education news site, plans to expand its network of philanthropically-funded local newsrooms from 7 to 18 US cities by 2025 — As the number of journalists on the education beat drops, Chalkbeat is — slowly — expanding and trying to recoup that loss.
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@niemanlab, @niemanlab, @niemanlab and @elizwgreen
William Davies / The Guardian:
Contrary to hype around big data, the explosion of available information amid eroding trust in media makes it harder, not easier, to achieve consensus on truth — It's not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access …
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Toronto Star, @janebsinger, @peltonenjanne, @mantzarlis, @lauraelizdavis, @went1955, @andre_spicer and @jayrosen_nyu, more at Techmeme »
Irin Carmon / The Cut:
Bloomberg and Charlie Rose sued by Rose's longtime makeup artist, who describes the Bloomberg studio where Rose recorded his show as “a sexual hunting ground” — Gina Riggi, a longtime makeup artist for Charlie Rose, who worked with the talk-show host for 22 years on his eponymous PBS show …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
TiVo confirms it is planning to place pre-roll video ads before DVR recordings for all customers, even those with a lifetime subscription plan — Rolling out to TiVo's current devices over the next 90 days — So much for it being an early, experimental test.
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@laurenweinstein, @starfire2258, @djgeoffe, @bmorrissey, @jaysonsrage, @kaludiasays, Gizmodo, Engadget, Light Reading and CNN, more at Techmeme »
Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times:
A look at the Internet Archive, whose ~330B page repository is helping fact checkers identify false information; ~650 orgs have paid to set up their own crawler — On a foggy September lunchtime in San Francisco, a group of researchers and data scientists sat around foldable plastic tables …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Alisyn Camerota about her former employer Fox News' connection to the Trump presidency, how different working at CNN is to working at Fox News, more — The ‘New Day’ co-anchor spent 16 years working for the ratings leader, which has informed her commentary during the Trump presidency.
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@spj_tweets, @bretteats, @poniewozik and @jeremymbarr
Bradley Johnson / Ad Age:
Magna forecasts US media net ad revenue to grow 4.1% to $221.6B in 2019 and 6.2% to $235.4B in 2020, expects political ad spending to generate $5B in 2020 — IPG's Magna raises 2019 U.S. ad projection to 4.1 percent from 3.0 percent — What recession? Magna just raised its ad forecasts for 2019 and 2020.
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