Mediagazer: As news outlets grapple with 2017's tough ad market, they're now downsizing their international offices and scaling back plans for global expansion (Lucia Moses/Digiday)

10:30 AM ET, December 7, 2017

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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

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David Uberti / Splinter:

Cracked, bought by E.W. Scripps for $39M in April 2016, lays off most of its staff, or about 25 people, will pivot back from video to more written content — When The E.W. Scripps Company announced it had bought the then-profitable humor site Cracked for $39 million in April 2016 …

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Time:

Time Magazine's “Person of the Year” is the Silence Breakers: those who came forward to reveal the entrenched sexual harassment across several industries — Movie stars are supposedly nothing like you and me. They're svelte, glamorous, self-possessed.

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:

The New York Times sues The Weinstein Company for $230K in unpaid advertising bills — Yesterday the New York Times dropped an extensive article about the “enablers, silencers and spies” who worked in Harvey Weinstein's corner over his decades of alleged sexual harassment and sexual assault of women.

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WNYC:

Longtime WNYC hosts Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz put on leave following allegations of inappropriate conduct — Leonard Lopate and Johnathan Schwartz, two longtime hosts at WNYC, have been put on leave effectively immediately pending investigations into allegations of inappropriate conduct.

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Columbia Journalism School:

Netflix and Ava DuVernay among 2018 duPont award winners, for documentary “13th”; Reveal podcast, This American Life, and ABC News also pick up awards — CBS News and PBS each win two Awards; Netflix honored — New York, N.Y., December 7, 2017 — Columbia Journalism School today announced …

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

As news outlets grapple with 2017's tough ad market, they're now downsizing their international offices and scaling back plans for global expansion — Winter is coming for digital media, and one of the big casualties is their global expansion. — Not long ago, digital media …

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