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Sources: in January, O'Reilly agreed to pay $32M to settle sexual harassment claims from former Fox analyst Lis Wiehl; in February his contract was extended — In January, the Fox News host was said to have agreed to a $32 million settlement with a former network analyst, the largest of his known payouts.
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Silvia Killingsworth / The Awl:
Vox Media Editorial Director Lockhart Steele, founder of Curbed, has been fired; CEO staff memo said Steele admitted conduct “inconsistent with our core values” — In what appears to be the first and probably not the last repercussion of last week's Shitty Media Men list …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
After firing editorial director Lockhart Steele, Vox CEO Jim Bankoff tells staff that investigations into inappropriate conduct are ongoing — Bankoff said there are still people coming forward and that Gibson Dunn is investigating. — A day after Vox Media terminated editorial director Lockhart Steele …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT's and WSJ's social media rules won't convince readers that journalists aren't biased, prevents outlets from using full potential of the medium — The relationship between media outlets and social platforms like Twitter has always been tense. On some level, publishers …
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Engadget and Washington Post
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control — In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual.
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Millennials, shunning Trump, and conditioned by Netflix and Spotify to pay for quality content, are subscribing to legacy news publications in record numbers — Shunning Trump, the millennial generation does what it once resisted: pay for news. — As President Donald Trump wages daily war …
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Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:
Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018 — Billboard has announced that its Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts — which measure singles and albums, respectively …
Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Research and development team at the BBC announces a five-year initiative to use machine learning to gain insight into what audiences want to watch — Today, BBC's R&D team announced a five-year initiative to use machine learning to work out what audiences want to watch.
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Proposed Honest Ads Act covers disclosure of political ad spending but fails to address the power of viral unpaid organic posts from fake accounts on Facebook — A BIPARTISAN GROUP of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would require online political advertisers to provide additional disclosures …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Inside MLK50, a year-long digi-journalism project on economic inequality and underrepresentation of blacks in Memphis, which will end April 4, 2018 — “Memphis is a microcosm of what's going on in a lot of urban centers around the country. It's an extreme example of what happens when things …
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Emily Tan / Campaign:
Google debuts machine learning-powered TV Content Explorer to catalog shows and beta forecasting and pacing models that predict ad inventory across devices — Google launches TV content explorer and a series of other updates for programmatic TV — Google has launched a machine-learning powered tool …
Business Insider:
Sources: anonymous list of harassment allegations circulated among media staffers leads to creation of internal tip line and investigation of claims at BuzzFeed — - BuzzFeed is investigating allegations of harassment by its employees. — The investigation follows a BuzzFeed report about a list titled “Sh—
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