• Hope’s next move. Hope Hicks’ next job might feel familiar. The former Trump White House communications director will be EVP and chief communications officer for New Fox, the segment of Fox revolving around Fox News after 21st Century Fox completes its sale of its entertainment assets to Disney.
Variety
• Code this. A funding exclusive: Y Combinator founding partner Jessica Livingston and Arielle Zuckerberg—Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister and an early stage investor formerly with Kleiner Perkins—are investing in a coding startup. Juni Learning offers one-on-one online computer science instruction designed as a full curriculum rather than a quick boot camp.
Fortune
• Green’s new green. Speaking of funding, Kirsten Green, founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures and investor in Glossier, Birchbox, Away, and others, announced that the firm has raised a new, $360 million fund.
Fast Company
• ‘She made us strong.’ GOP Senate candidate and North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer recently called #MeToo a “movement toward victimization,” but his comments are most noteworthy for the response they provoked from incumbent North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. “And I want you to put this in there, it did not make my mom less strong that she was a victim. She got stronger and she made us strong,” Heitkamp told a reporter through tears.
New York Times
MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Tina Perry has been promoted to general manager, a new role, at OWN.
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