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Mark Halperin, who faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment in 2017, signs a book deal with publisher Regan Arts — News of the “Game Change” author's deal with Regan Arts came as a shock to his accusers, and prominent Democrats interviewed in the book have been scrambling to explain themselves.
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EIC Megan Greenwell is leaving Deadspin and says G/O Media leaders refused to guarantee Deadspin's editorial independence and told the site to “stick to sports” — The new bosses in charge of what used to be the Gawker network of websites have drastically upended the culture …
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Spotify's Premium Family Plan is getting parental controls with an explicit content filter and a Family Mix personalized playlist for the whole family — Spotify is rolling out a new Premium Family Plan with a much-awaited setting. Parents will now have the ability to filter out songs with swearing …
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How journalists can avoid amplifying misinformation, given their reporting can improve search engine rankings and increase the visibility for bad info — When it comes to websites with masked motives, can coverage do more harm than good? Recent discussions at First Draft tried to address this inherent problem.
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Q&A with ESPN's investigative reporter Don Van Natta about Backstory, a new show on the network which revisits some of the biggest stories in sports history — Don Van Natta has covered the Clinton White House and terrorism in Europe for the New York Times.
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[Thread] Twitter has been running ads from Chinese state news agency Xinhua that aim to discredit protesters in Hong-Kong — Every day I go out and see stuff with my own eyes, and then I go to report it on Twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what I saw. Twitter is taking money from Chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against the top Hong Kong protest hashtags pic.twitter.com/6Wb0Km6GOb
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Profile of the Black Panther Party's newspaper, which ran from 1967 to 1980 and at its peak was the most-read Black newspaper in the US — In 1968, Billy X Jennings was sitting in class at Laney College, in Oakland, California, when he heard chanting from the courthouse across the street.
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American City Business Journals acquires BizEquity, a SaaS company offering business valuation tools and more to financial institutions and wealth managers — As part of the deal, the parent company of the Philadelphia Business Journal will make a “significant” capital investment in BizEquity to accelerate its growth.
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Journalists, including ICIJ's Marina Walker Guevara and Columbia's Giannina Segnini, launch Latin American center for transnational investigative journalism — Five renowned journalists in Latin America just launched a new journalistic project that seeks to use collaborative investigative journalism …
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Despite having canceled two dozen shows in 2019, Netflix is no quicker to drop shows than other networks, with 50% making it to season three, comparable to HBO — With such a huge budget, Netflix only looks like it's pulling the plug sooner — Just a few months after TV critics anointed …
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Ashley Flowers, the creator and host of true-crime podcast “Crime Junkie”, says several episodes have been pulled down, after being accused of plagiarism — Ashley Flowers, creator and host of “Crime Junkie” — currently the No. 1 true-crime podcast — has been accused …
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Vice News Tonight is relaunching on Viceland after HBO canceled the newsmagazine series in June, will serve as the new nightly primetime anchor for the channel — EXCLUSIVE: Nightly newsmagazine Vice News Tonight is returning to TV on Viceland, the basic cable network joint venture of Vice Media and A+E Networks.
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