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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sources: Fox News agreed to pay a former assistant of Kimberly Guilfoyle more than $4M to settle a complaint about Guilfoyle's sexually inappropriate behavior — As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll …
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Jason Lynch / Adweek:
AMC+, AMC Networks' streaming service, is available without a cable subscription for the first time as it debuts on Apple TV Channels and Prime Video Channels — Networks AMC, BBC America, IFC and SundanceTV go direct-to-consumer for first time — AMC+ subscribers will get early access …
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Reuters:
Irina Slavina, EIC of Russian news outlet Koza Press, died after setting herself on fire in front of a government office after police searched her apartment — Irina Slavina dies following self-immolation she blamed on Russian Federation — A Russian journalist has died after setting herself …
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Liz Wolfe / Reason:
NYT, which faced staff unrest and an editor's exit after running Sen. Cotton's op-ed on US protests, posted an op-ed praising China's crackdown on HK's protests — “The West tends to glorify” pro-democracy protesters “as defenders of Hong Kong's freedoms, but they have done great harm …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media names Nadja Bellan-White as its first global CMO — Bellan-White, previously based in the U.K., will work from Vice's Brooklyn headquarters and will report to CEO Nancy Dubuc. She starts at the end of October. — With Bellan-White's appointment, current Vice CMO Guy Slattery …
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InPublishing:
UK's Independent is launching Independent en Español, a Spanish-language website aimed at the US market, its biggest, starting with translated articles — The Independent this week announced the launch of Independent en Español, a new website created to serve the Hispanic audience …
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Aarian Marshall / Wired:
Library checkouts of ebooks are up 52% YoY since March as libraries pay an average of $40 per copy due to publisher restrictions limiting library lending — Checkouts of digital books from a popular service are up 52 percent since March. Publishers say their easy availability hurts sales.
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
SCOTUS agrees to hear case to decide whether the FCC can repeal or modify media ownership rules in its attempt to relax restrictions on local media ownership — The U.S. Supreme Court Friday said it has agreed to hear a longstanding case dealing with the FCC's attempt to relax restrictions on local media ownership.
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Jack Stubbs / Reuters:
Sources: Russia's IRA is running a news site on US politics, reposting conservative content and paying US freelancers to write on politically sensitive issues — LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet …
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Ben Kenigsberg / New York Times:
Kingdom of Silence, a documentary about Jamal Khashoggi's career, premieres on Showtime today, two years after his murder — Rick Rowley's documentary looks back at the journalist's career in all its contours and contradictions against a backdrop of changing geopolitics.
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NPR:
David Greene, a host of NPR's Morning Edition for eight years, is leaving the show; the broadcaster will start a nationwide search for a successor — After 8 years as host of Morning Edition, David Greene is stepping back from hosting to focus on other projects.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil — Google will pay publishers more than $1 billion over the next three years to create and curate high-quality journalism for a new set …
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