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4:00 PM ET, March 18, 2019

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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Warner Bros. Chief Executive Kevin Tsujihara steps down following allegations that he had an affair with a young actress and tried to get her cast in movies  —  Warner Bros. Chief Executive Kevin Tsujihara will step down after allegations that he had an affair with a young actress and tried …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
With the departure of Kevin Tsujihara, all of the men in who were in top positions at Time Warner when AT&T purchased it have left or are leaving the company  —  Warner Bros boss Kevin Tsujihara is out after a casting-couch scandal.  He's the last man in a top position at Time Warner to leave the company.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Adweek
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, who left CNN over leaks to Clinton campaign, has joined Fox News as a contributor  —  Donna Brazile, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, will join Fox News as a contributor, the cable-news network announced Monday.
Facebook Journalism Project:
Facebook announces the Facebook Journalism Project Community Network to support projects aimed at building community through local news  —  Product Marketing Manager, Today In Local News Partnerships Lead  —  Over the last twenty-five years, news deserts - communities with little or no local reporting …
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Washington Post:
Inside YouTube's efforts to shut down uploads, coming as quickly as 1 per second, of the Christchurch shooting as uploaders managed to evade its detection tools  —  SAN FRANCISCO — As a grisly video recorded by the alleged perpetrator of Friday's bloody massacres at two New Zealand mosques played …
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Bhanu Pratap / Reuters:
Facebook says it has removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
John Koblin / New York Times:
An overview of Apple's big spending plan to challenge streaming incumbents like Netflix, ahead of its March 25 “It's show time” event  —  Apple is coming to Hollywood.  —  Delete that.  —  Hollywood is going to Apple.  —  On March 25, a delegation of producers …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
HBO's president of global distribution Bernadette Aulestia is resigning, according to internal memo, a month after CEO Richard Pleper departed  —  HBO's president of global distribution, Bernadette Aulestia, has announced her resignation, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.
Discussion: Variety, The Wrap and @sherman4949
New York Times:
American officials citing intel reports say Jamal Khashoggi's killing was part of a broad campaign to silence dissenters, authorized by MbS over a year before  —  WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters …
Adam Sternbergh / Vulture:
How podcasts have become audio portals into unexpected worlds, with an estimated 660K shows in production, offering ~28M individual episodes for 62M listeners  —  When you first heard about podcasts, do you remember how excited you weren't?  Do you recall the first person who said …
Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Fox News did not air Jeanine Pirro's show on Saturday, a week after her remarks that Rep. Ilhan Omar may not support the US Constitution because she's a Muslim  —  Jeanine Pirro's weekly show on Fox News did not air on Saturday evening one week after the former federal judge suggested on air …
 
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Financial Times:
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson criticizes the UK government's decision to make the BBC pay the cost of free TV licenses for over-75s
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Comcast combines NBCUniversal and Sky's ad power to target viewers better worldwide through a new service called AdSmart
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The EU has backed a resolution criticizing Iran's treatment of BBC Persian journalists, saying the country's authorities have “systematically targeted” them
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Leaked docs show a pro-Corbyn “alt left” news site Evolve Politics is paying freelance journalists as little as £10 an article plus slice of digital ad revenue
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Ahead of Disney-Fox deal closing, executives from Peter Chernin to Bob Greenblatt discuss their time working at 21st Century Fox
Yunghi Kim:
Ignoring past women photographers, Nat Geo's article on Women's Day creates a false narrative that the glass ceiling in photojournalism was only breached now
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down

 
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