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12:20 PM ET, October 7, 2017

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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Weinstein Company board says Harvey Weinstein on indefinite leave as it investigates sexual harassment claims; source says three other board members resigned  —  The board of the Weinstein Company announced that its co-chairman Harvey Weinstein began an indefinite leave on Friday …
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
A reporter recalls an altercation with Weinstein which turned violent and how many journalists, including David Carr, attempted to expose his behavior  —  I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment for more than seventeen years.
Axios:
In email to advertisers, Facebook says it'll manually review ads that target users based on politics, religion, ethnicity, or social issues before they go live  —  Facebook is going to require ads that are targeted to people based on “politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues” …
Nicola Slawson / The Guardian:
Kim Wall murder: police find head of Swedish journalist  —  Divers find bags containing body parts and clothes of reporter who went to interview Danish inventor on submarine  —  Danish police investigating the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall have found body parts, including her severed head.
Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
Profile of Giphy, which has 300M DAUs sharing 2B+ GIFs per day, major media partnerships in place, and hopes to shake up internet advertising  —  With 300 million daily users and every major media company as a partner, Giphy's got a feeling it can shake up the internet advertising business.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media announces 24-episode streaming video series, Divided States of Women, with an associated digital platform to come and an already-launched podcast  —  The 24-episode series, “Divided States of Women,” is hosted by Liz Plank and slated to debut this month.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Scammers pretending to work for The Atlantic target freelancers to gain access to bank and credit card info; law enforcement has been notified  —  The Atlantic has worked hard to build itself up as a prestigious outlet by showcasing long-form journalism, intellectual depth and rich photography.
Discussion: The Atlantic, MediaPost and SC Media US
Ezra Marcus / The FADER:
A look at recently deleted alt-right aligned meme review channel thatistheplan by popular music vlogger Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop  —  He deleted the entire channel when we asked for comment about why it was so bad.  —  YouTube  —  The most famous music critic
Discussion: The A.V. Club, Noisey and BrooklynVegan
David Matthews / Times Higher Education:
Five academic publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley, and Brill, to send take-down notices to ResearchGate, claiming up to 40% of papers on site are copyrighted  —  Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale … Leading publishers are stepping up their fight …
Discussion: cen.acs.org
Kelsey Sutton / Mic:
Vice fires Broadly senior writer Mitchell Sunderland after BuzzFeed report connecting him to Breitbart and Milo  —  Vice has cut ties with a senior writer from its feminist vertical Broadly after a BuzzFeed report revealed that the writer pitched story ideas to then-Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos …
Danny Sullivan:
Search Engine Land founder Danny Sullivan is joining Google to serve as a public liaison for search  —  When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next.  I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long.
 
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John Keefe / Quartz:
Quartz and DocumentCloud launch Slack bot to help journalists grab screenshots of webpages, preserve URLs through the Internet Archive, and find data sources
Discussion: Nieman Lab
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: Former New Yorker and Vogue publisher Tom Florio to buy Paper Magazine
Discussion: Mediawire
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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Gannett takes majority stake in online media company Grateful Ventures for less than $10M, firm to produce videos and content about food and cooking
Discussion: Gannett and MediaPost