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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Six more women accuse CBS CEO Leslie Moonves of sexual harassment or assault in incidents that occurred between the 1980s and early 2000s — Members of the board of the CBS Corporation are negotiating with the company's chairman and C.E.O., Leslie Moonves, about his departure.
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Sources: CBS agrees to settle with National Amusements, negotiates $100M exit with Moonves; Moonves deal has clawback provisions, part to be donated to charity — NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp (CBS.N) has reached a deal to settle litigation over the control of the company …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sources: the announcement of Leslie Moonves' departure from CBS is coming by Monday — Leslie Moonves' tenure at CBS Corp. is expected to end within the next 24 hours as new allegations of sexual assault and harassment surface in an investigative report by Ronan Farrow.
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Jacob Silverman / The Baffler:
How Campbell Brown seeks to repair the relationship between Facebook and publishers while undermining the news institutions she claims to support — THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACEBOOK and news publishers is a bizarre charade, peopled by unreliable characters, dotted with contradictions, suffused with dependency and resentment.
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BuzzFeed News:
Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store — One day after his ban from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been kicked off yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars and Infowars app return no results.
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Polina Devitt / Reuters:
Google removed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's YouTube ad inviting Russians to join protests after authorities complained it violated election law — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after authorities complained …
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New York Times:
NYT Op-Ed Editor James Dao answers questions about anonymous op-ed on Trump: “senior administration official” is a broad category, writer's motives were weighed — The New York Times's Opinion desk published an Op-Ed by an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration on Wednesday.
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
By publishing the anonymous op-ed, NYT changes its position in democracy, forfeits its job of holding power to account, and becomes complicit in own corruption
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Anh Nguyen / The Lenfest Institute for Journalism:
Case study of Philly's The Metro Chinese Weekly, which uses a WeChat microsite, Navigasian, to link local businesses and customers; 70 clients pay $4,740/year — More than 1 billion people use the Chinese messaging app WeChat each month. Not surprisingly, the app's reach spreads far beyond China's borders …
Aaron Gordon / Slate:
The Athletic has built its editorial staff by poaching local journalists, making dubious claims of disruption, and having stories readers can't find elsewhere — The Athletic's rapid recent launch into the stratosphere of buzzy publications is built on two big ideas.
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New York Times:
Profile of Alex Jones, whose Infowars serves as both a conspiracy-focused media outlet and an online store for selling products that purport to improve health — AUSTIN — More than ever before in his two-decade career built on baseless conspiracy theories, angry nativist rants and end …
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Jared Schroeder / Columbia Journalism Review:
As Trump threatens new regulations for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, experts say legal precedents show algorithms may be protected under the First Amendment — President Trump indicated last week that the White House is looking into regulating Google, Facebook, and Twitter because they are …
Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
Though BuzzFeed's publication of an email from Elon Musk marked “off the record” meets journalistic standards, the term can be opaque to news consumers — The entrepreneur's reaction to recent media coverage illustrates a common—and dangerous—misconception of reporting practices.
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