Mediagazer: Joe Lockhart, WH press secretary for Clinton, on how the Clinton impeachment showed press is non-partisan, why media should air Trump with a delay to fact-check (Columbia Journalism Review)

8:45 AM ET, October 13, 2019

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Brian Stelter / CNN:

Source: Shepard Smith asked Fox News management in September to let him out of his contract; tensions with pro-Trump opinion shows were the breaking point — New York (CNN Buiness)Last month Shep Smith decided that he had simply had enough. — With President Trump actively distorting …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

With Shepard Smith gone, Fox News will have less of a balance to point to when asked to defend its primetime excesses, but its bottom line will be just fine — Analysis: Fox News' stick-to-the-facts anchor didn't always please the faithful. And that's how the network makes its money

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Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy of exempting ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking by running a Facebook ad with a clear falsehood — Zuckerberg says legal battles during a Warren presidency would ‘suck’ — (CNN)A fresh series of Facebook ads this week …

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Ronan Farrow's producer recounts how NBC news chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim personally intervened to shut down Weinstein investigation — Rich McHugh recounts how top NBC brass, including news chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim, bowed to Harvey Weinstein to quash the truth.

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC News president has visited seven news orgs to present a rebuttal to Farrow's contention that the network ordered him to stop reporting on Weinstein

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The Daily Beast:
NBC News President Noah Oppenheim, who allegedly downplayed a rape allegation against Matt Lauer, also penned sexist columns in the Harvard Crimson 20 years ago

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Sources: in early 2018, Eddy Cue and Morgan Wandell, Apple's international TV lead, asked some Apple TV+ show creators to avoid portraying China in a poor light — We thought trade would bring Western values to China. Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.

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Rachel Dodes / Wall Street Journal:

Companion podcasts like Chernobyl's allow networks to use their access to creators, writers, and actors to give behind-the-scenes insights and attract viewers — After fans gobbled up ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Chernobyl’ podcasts, networks and streaming services have begun producing companion audio programs to boost TV viewer loyalty

Karl Vick / TIME:

Profile of New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, as the company works toward shedding its long-held reputation as an “elite” read to attract new subscribers — On a Sunday morning in the summer of 2018, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, a member of the fifth generation of the family …

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Columbia Journalism Review:

Joe Lockhart, WH press secretary for Clinton, on how the Clinton impeachment showed press is non-partisan, why media should air Trump with a delay to fact-check — Joe Lockhart was named White House press secretary three days before the House voted to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998.

Jessica Davies / Digiday:

After turning off its ad inventory on the open exchange post-GDPR, FT says private deals now account for 70% of overall programmatic revenue, up from 4% in 2017 — While for many publishers, the General Data Protection Regulation represented an inconvenient, potential threat to programmatic ad revenues …

Dani Deahl / The Verge:

Music streamer Audius is built on blockchain, introducing issues regarding removing infringing material, which has proliferated, and identifying its hosts — New startup Audius says its blockchain-based music streaming service is the solution that finally pays attention to indie artists' needs.

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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:

LadBible says it is rebranding Pretty 42, its female-focused spinoff launched in 2017, as Tyla due to low brand awareness — LadBible made its name with Facebook fare of prank-meets-entertainment videos, like this guy getting squirted in the face with pepper spray and this on America's fattest bear.

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