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8:20 AM ET, October 8, 2017

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New York Times:
Weinstein advisor Lisa Bloom resigns after telling board she wanted reporting with pics of accusers in “friendly poses with Harvey after his alleged misconduct”  —  The lawyer Lisa Bloom resigned on Saturday as an adviser to Harvey Weinstein, the high-powered film producer facing allegations …
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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.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Harvey Weinstein says he intends to sue the New York Times over its “reckless reporting” and says the newspaper has a vendetta against him
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, who is leading the company's Russia investigation, complains via tweetstorm about a misguided media backlash over “The Algorithm”  —  “I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy …
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Jennifer Mizgata / Online Journalism Awards:
2017 Online Journalism Awards winners include Le Temps, The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and STAT  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Superlative reporting on leaked data, prison reform and undue police force led coverage that garnered top honors for 29 media organizations Saturday night …
Heather Timmons / Quartz:
Sources: Facebook plans to sign up conservative US magazine The Weekly Standard as a fact-checking partner  —  In its newest attempt to stem the flood of fake news and conspiracy theories online, Facebook plans to sign up a conservative US magazine, the Weekly Standard, as a fact-checking partner …
Jack Nissen / Bridge Magazine:
The Saline Post, a one-man online-only publication covering a Michigan town of 9,000, was going to cease publication until readers volunteered to pay more  —  SALINE - It was 7:10 a.m. on Aug. 5 when Saline residents learned they were losing their local newspaper.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
How New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman's Twitter-friendly style is changing the paper's editorial and business strategies  —  She's a West Wing-beat colossus and a sui generis creature at the paper of record.  “Maggie's success is very much part of that tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility bleeding into the Times,” says a colleague.
CBS News:
On 60 Minutes, Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale describes how he handpicked Facebook employee “embeds” who assisted the campaign with its ad buys  —  Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale says Donald Trump won election on Facebook with highly targeted ads — and infrastructure was a key issue
Financial Times:
Discussion: BBC
Yunita Ong / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with founders of Southeast Asia news startup New Naratif on longform journalism, their $52 per year subscription model, and publishing in two languages  —  New Naratif, modeled loosely on the successful Dutch site De Correspondent, has started a crowdfunding campaign with the goal of signing up 3,500 members.
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.
 
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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
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Vice fires Broadly senior writer Mitchell Sunderland after BuzzFeed report connecting him to Breitbart and Milo
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
New York Times:
Fox News executive vice president of legal and business affairs Dianne Brandi takes voluntary leave
Discussion: Washington Post and TVNewser