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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Twitter suspends former Trump adviser Roger Stone after he sent crude, personal, and vaguely threatening tweets to some CNN anchors and contributors — Stone went after Lemon last night. — What can you get away with typing on Twitter? It's a line that moves over time.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
News orgs in 6 test countries worry over the drop in reach after Facebook moved their posts to the Explore tab, with paying as only option to get into News Feed — “It's important politically how this is going to play out.” — It's Facebook's world; we just live in it.
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The Guardian, @jimmurphysf, @rohanjay and @realclusterf**k
The Daily Beast:
The New Republic's publisher, Hamilton Fish, takes leave after harassment allegations involving “a number of women employees”, according to its owner — Hamilton Fish V, the publisher of The New Republic, is taking a leave of absence from running the century-old magazine pending …
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New York Magazine, @jamilsmith and @melbournecoal
Aimee Levitt / Chicago Reader:
Amid the Weinstein fallout and a book tour by Matt Taibbi, the misogynist tales of Taibbi and Mark Ames in The Exile resurface — Matt Taibbi has a new book out now, I Can't Breathe, about all the forces that conspired to kill Eric Garner. It's an important story that has become part …
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Matt Taibbi, @ojutel, @neelaeast, @aimeelevitt, @moryan, Martha Bayne, @chrisfarnsworth, @rasmus_kleis and @moryan
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
News organizations must address the deep-seated gender inequality that's at the root of the widespread sexual misconduct at media companies — So, now that the dam has burst on sexual misconduct at media companies, we're good, right? — Don't believe that for a moment.
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thecut, Vox, @theatlantic, @jayrosen_nyu, @pamelacolloff, @ezraklein, @cecilerichards and Vanity Fair
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly threatens to sue former New Jersey lawmaker for $5M over “defamatory” Facebook post about his ex's experiences with O'Reilly — Fox gave O'Reilly contract after $32 million settlement — Bill O'Reilly is threatening legal action against a former New Jersey lawmaker …
John Battelle / NewCo Shift:
How to improve Medium: more metrics, sharing from inside the paywall, more specifics on how claps equate to earnings, and an emphasis on the lack of advertising — NewCo and I are very invested in Medium—we very much want it to thrive. Here are a few suggestions that might make it better.
Steve LeVine / Axios:
How two former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters, founders of Fusion GPS, became key figures in the political storm surrounding Trump-Russia dossier — In fall 2015, Fusion GPS, an investigative firm run by former senior reporters at the Wall Street Journal, began working on a new assignment …
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Washington Post, @axios, @mlcalderone and Axios
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New York Times:
Sources: Washington Free Beacon initially hired Fusion GPS, the firm that produced Steele dossier on Trump, starting in October 2015 and stopping in May 2016
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Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:
Q&A with Howard Owens, publisher of The Batavian in upstate NY, on building an app, boosting subscriptions, and futility of recreating a newspaper model online — Howard Owens has done local news at both ends of the publishing spectrum. He was director of digital publishing …
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@michaelsocolow
Emily Bell / The Guardian:
The erasure of traditional boundaries between advertising and other “content” online lies at the root of the Russian ad issue during the US election — lmost a year after the shock election of Donald Trump, the communication tactics and tools that helped him win power remain …
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@janebsinger, @emilybell and @soktaykilic
Ken Doctor / TheStreet:
How an FCC relaxation of media ownership rules could work, based on the example of Raycom's merger with Community Newspaper Holdings — It was a tiny bolt out of the blue and, to those who have been watching closely, another act in a long-schemed planned outage.
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Patreon's recent crackdown on adult content worries sex workers and creators of erotic art — NSFW Warning: This story may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. — On October 17th, crowdfunding website Patreon amended the terms of its acceptable use policy as part of a wider program of reform.
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