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On Thursday, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter claimed that the Department of Homeland Security demanded access to her mobile phones when she was crossing the border at the Los Angeles airport. The case highlights the powers that border agents purport to have, and how vulnerable sensitive information can be when taken through airports…
Medium, the digital publishing start-up led by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is about to add the largest website yet to its growing portfolio. The liberal site ThinkProgress will shift over to the platform next month. “It’s really impossible for an independent publisher to develop and maintain their own publishing platform in this environment. Most of…
“These are not layoffs, they are voluntary buyouts,” Times spokesperson tells TheWrap Nearly 50 New York Times journalists have accepted a buyout offer and will exit the paper in the coming months. The Times had a standing offer and is attempting to trim the staff, which currently stands at about 1,300 employees, according to Poynter….
Roger Ailes remains in charge at Fox News. But not for much longer. The owners of 21st Century Fox, the Murdochs, have decided that Ailes must leave amid allegations of sexual harassment. Exit talks are underway. Inside Fox News, A-list hosts and rank and file producers alike are in the dark and worried about what’s…
©Getty Roger Ailes with his wife Elizabeth Tilson outside the News Corp building in New York on Tuesday God seems to be toying with American conservatives. On the same day Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination, Roger Ailes, legendary creator of Fox News, was being ushered out of his role. Mr Trump’s rise may have…
Gawker Media, which went into Chapter 11 to avoid paying a $140 million invasion-of-privacy verdict to Hulk Hogan, can’t extend the bankruptcy court’s protection to its founder, Nick Denton, triggering what is likely to be his own personal bankruptcy. Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE Source: Gawker Can’t Shield Founder From…
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly—who ranks among the channel’s most valuable and visible on-air talent, and has maintained close ties with network CEO Roger Ailes—has apparently told lawyers hired by 21st Century Fox that Ailes made sexual advances toward her several years ago, according to reporting by Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine: According to…
As a chorus of prominent Fox News women have gone public defending Roger Ailes against the wave of sexual-harassment allegations sparked by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit, the network’s biggest star, Megyn Kelly, has been conspicuously silent. Kelly’s refusal to join in Ailes’s orchestrated defense has led to speculation about why. Now we have the…
Ailes and Murdoch. Photo-Illustration: Daily Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Roger Ailes’s tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end. Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing the 76-year-old executive, say…