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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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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The O'Reilly and Weinstein cases show settlements and nondisclosure agreements create a silence on sexual harassment that could leave others vulnerable — Bill O'Reilly and Harvey Weinstein may have come from different ends of the political spectrum, but it turns out they have a lot in common.
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William D. Cohan / New Yorker:
The bankruptcy of the Alaska Dispatch News is a cautionary tale for those who think billionaires can save journalism from its lack of a viable business model — Ever since Donald Graham, the heir to the Washington Post, decided to sell the family's newspaper for two hundred and fifty million dollars …
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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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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:NEW!
Netflix to raise $1.6B in debt to fund content acquisitions, production, and development — Netflix plans to raise an additional $1.6 billion in debt to for “content acquisitions, production and development,” among other “general corporate purposes,” the streaming giant said on Monday.
Adrienne Lafrance / Nieman Reports:
News organizations experiment with personalized content but it is making political polarization worse — News personalization could help publishers attract and retain audiences—in the process making political polarization even worse — I — t took a terrorist attack for Google to enter the news business.
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Google says it plans to take a percentage of fees for new subscriptions that media publishers get via its upcoming subscriber targeting tools — Google plans to share revenues with publishers which benefit from the company's new digital subscription tools, in a scheme comparable to its successful advertising revenue model.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Profile of Matthew Henick, head of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, as the unit focuses on developing ideas for feature-length movies and TV series — Matthew Henick, a onetime teenage ringtone magnate, is leading the company away from popular shorts toward deals with production studios.
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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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Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
As during the AIDS epidemic, victims and families use obituaries to highlight the depth of the opioid crisis, particularly in news deserts — AUSTIN JONATZKE of Stevensville, Michigan, didn't live a long life, but his family wants you to know how meaningful it was. He adored his redheaded nieces and nephew.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Wattpad's free storytelling and fan fiction app, now with 60M monthly users, adds a $6/month ad-free plan — Wattpad, the company behind a suite of apps for reading and sharing stories - including a fairly popular “chat fiction” app Tap, a rival to Hooked - is today adding its first ever subscription plan for its flagship application.
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Condé Nast Entertainment president Dawn Ostroff on finding projects in the archives, character-driven narratives, and working on scripted projects — The media company's entertainment president (and former CW chief) opens up about developing a GQ feature into 'Only the Brave …
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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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”
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