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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News says Shepard Smith is stepping down from his longtime role as chief news anchor and leaving the network — In a shocking turn of events that stunned the media industry, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith announced his departure from the network after more than 23 years.
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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 Fung / CNN:
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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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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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
A newspaper in Carroll, Iowa brought down a cop for having inappropriate relationships with teen girls, but his failed lawsuit put the paper in financial peril — It started, like many newspaper investigations, with a tip. — The Carroll Times Herald in the small town of Carroll, Iowa …
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
Oracle-funded report finds Google media grants tend to go to places where it faces pressure from the public; it has given $567M to 1,157 media projects — Over more than a decade, Google and foundations run by its leaders have given hundreds of millions of dollars to journalists …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Drudge Report, whose aggregation shapes conservative media narratives, has been spotlighting Trump criticism, though Twitter may have diminished its clout — New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump, facing an ever-deepening scandal that threatens to swallow his presidency …
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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.
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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
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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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BuzzFeed News:
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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