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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter: 2½ hours ago

SiriusXM Radio owner Liberty Media pulled proposed $1.16B cash injection for iHeartMedia after iHeartMedia rejected Liberty's ask for a 40% stake in return

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: 3 hours ago

Facebook has hired a team that will try to spot vulnerabilities in its systems before bad actors exploit them, to prevent abuses like 2016 US elections debacle

Jonathan Handel / Hollywood Reporter: 4 hours ago

Study: 16% of 651 films released theatrically in 2017 were directed by women, 12% of films with $250K+ box office take directed by women, 10% by people of color

Laura McGann / Vox:

Study: male DC journalists reply on Twitter to other male journalists 92% of the time, retweet other men 69% of the time, and 62% of follows are other men

Jonathan Handel / Hollywood Reporter:

Study: 16% of 651 films released theatrically in 2017 were directed by women, 12% of films with $250K+ box office take directed by women, 10% by people of color

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Facebook has hired a team that will try to spot vulnerabilities in its systems before bad actors exploit them, to prevent abuses like 2016 US elections debacle

Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:

SiriusXM Radio owner Liberty Media pulled proposed $1.16B cash injection for iHeartMedia after iHeartMedia rejected Liberty's ask for a 40% stake in return

H.G. Watson / Nieman Lab:

Micropayments generate less than $100K/year for The Winnipeg Free Press after three years, but the data gathered helps with targeted subscription selling

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

Facebook's blend of AI and humans to screen ads continues to snare non-political ads and legitimate news, angering some publishers as the process gets refined

Abby Seiff / Columbia Journalism Review:

A freelancer's rejection by the Washington Post after she retweeted a criticism of one of their articles exemplifies freelancers' precarious position

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

The Telegraph, Die Zeit, Mediapart, The Intercept, and Wikitribune launch a collaborative investigation supported by The Signals Network into the misuse of data

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Reddit launches News tab in beta to most iOS users, highlights work from news websites based on user engagement, users can filter categories

Julia Jacobo / ABC News:

ABC announces spinoff of Roseanne, with a working title of The Conners, coming this fall; Roseanne Barr will not be involved in the series

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

United Talent Agency partners with Cadence13 to create Ramble, a podcast network devoted exclusively to online creators

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

Interview with GateHouse's Mike Reed about growth, acquisitions, hires, and how Fortress, New Media Ventures, and GateHouse Media fit together

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