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Ousted Fox News head Roger Ailes and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have fallen out and are no longer speaking, sources say. Emily Jane Fox of Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday that New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman and Vanity Fair editor Sarah Ellison have both been informed that the longtime friends Trump and Ailes are no longer on good terms, but the…
Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti decided to share a little insight into Ivanka Trump’s capacity for lewdness on Twitter earlier today. And according to Peretti, Ivanka is particularly interested in seeing “a mulatto cock.” A few things. First: Jonah, you know you run a news site, right? And second, this does not conform to Ivanka’s meticulously…
Dive Brief: In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook announced Live API, a new tool that allows publishers to schedule Facebook Live streaming video broadcasts in advance. The blog post explained the tool was added to Facebook Live following publisher demand. TechCrunch points out that the ability to schedule live streams eliminates the frustration of announcing…
Ecuador’s decision to pull the plug on Julian Assange’s internet connection has highlighted the isolation of WikiLeaks, the organization he founded to expose the inner workings of governments and other powerful institutions. Some former allies and observers say that after four years confined to the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Mr. Assange is alienating former supporters…
A graph from the Anti-Defamation League study showing spikes in anti-Semitic harassment on Twitter. Harassment and abuse on Twitter is rampant. In recent years, the platform has become a primary destination for trolls and hate groups. And as the US election season reaches its final stretch, the social network can feel increasingly toxic to women…
Evan Spiegel has a new deal for “Discover” publishers: We pay you up front, and we keep all the ad money. Snapchat says it’s done sharing with media companies. The red-hot messaging app wants to make a major change in the way it works with companies that supply it with content for its “Discover” section….
NEW YORK ― It’s 3:00 in the afternoon, and Shepard Smith is in the chair. Fox News viewers are about to be in for an hour of broadcasting that is at once deeply familiar ― Shep has been on the network’s air since it went live 20 years ago ― and also just as strange. Shep,…
Gus Wenner, 26, head of Wenner Media’s digital operations, with his father, Jann Wenner, 70, Rolling Stone’s editor. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times With his spiky gray hair and the top few buttons of his shirt undone, Jann S. Wenner looked every bit the aging but still vigorous lion of pop-culture media…
If you are among the 73% of American adults who don’t log in to Twitter at least once a month, you can be forgiven for viewing it primarily as a place where presidential candidates launch broadsides and celebrities embarrass themselves. Twitter Inc.’s long struggle to define itself goes hand in hand with its recent inability to grow…
close story-meta-footer Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, David McCraw, a newsroom lawyer for The Times, describes the reactions to his now famous letter to Donald J. Trump’s lawyer. Photo The New York Times printed David McCraw’s reply in last…