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3:00 PM ET, May 18, 2015

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Mark Lobel / BBC:
BBC team reporting on 2022 FIFA World Cup workers in Qatar was held for two days in prison  —  Arrested for reporting on Qatar's World Cup labourers  —  Improved housing is being built for labourers  —  We were invited to Qatar by the prime minister's office to see new flagship accommodation …
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
Fifa to investigate arrest of BBC news team in Qatar  —  Team was on official visit to inspect migrant workers' accommodation after outcry over conditions for those building 2022 World Cup stadiums  —  Football's governing body, Fifa, has launched an investigation after a BBC news team …
Financial Times:
Financial Times rolls out ‘cost per hour’ advertising metric  —  18 May 2015: The Financial Times today announces the launch of a new digital advertising metric, ‘cost per hour’ (CPH).  Working closely with Chartbeat on the new time-based system, the FT is able to increase marketing effectiveness …
Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
Stephanopoulos apologises again, says he donated to Clinton Foundation to support its charitable work, like stopping the spread of AIDS  —  Stephanopoulos Apologizes Again For Clinton Foundation Donations  —  George Stephanopoulos apologized on air for a second time …
Discussion: Gawker and Poynter
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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
George Stephanopoulos and the Line Between News and Entertainment
Nikki Finke:
Nikki Finke launches Hollywood Dementia, a new paywalled site publishing fiction by Hollywood insiders, will charge readers $1 per post  —  Nikki Finke Announces New Site HollywoodDementia.com  —  Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara and more recently Michael Tolkin and Bruce Wagner …
Daniel Popper / American Journalism Review:
Billy Penn CEO Jim Brady talks about the news startup, plans to expand to other cities  —  Inside Billy Penn with CEO Jim Brady  —  Editor's Note: This Q&A is part of “Newsroom Spotlight,” a series of conversations with journalists about what's going on in their newsrooms and the media industry.
Discussion: @raju and @jayrosen_nyu
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Broadcast, cable networks unite to form new trade body, Video Advertising Bureau, to promote TV advertising as digital video takes up more ad budgets  —  Broadcast, Cable Nets Unite Vs. Online Content  —  Video Advertising Bureau formed to support ‘multiplatform TV’
Discussion: Adweek, Variety and Digital Media Wire
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Washington Post designer used Periscope to live-stream the drawing of the paper's Sports section front  —  Sports Editor Matt Vita, Designer Dan Worthington on Periscoping last night's Sports section  —  Last night, Washington Post designer Dan Worthington live-streamed the drawing …
Discussion: @natashatynes
Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal:
China's Baidu invests in content recommendation platform Taboola, sources say around $20-30M  —  Baidu Invests in Content-Recommendation Company Taboola  —  Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc. said it is partnering with Taboola Inc. to bring Taboola's content-recommendation platform to China.
Discussion: @stittr
Valentina I. Valentini / Fast Company:
Refinery29 Already Has 25 Million Fans, Now It Wants To Win At Sundance  —  The lower Manhattan Refinery29 office in spring is the real-life equivalent of the lifestyle company's website.  It's all whites and pastels, women everywhere in fashion-forward looks, a buzz in the air that makes a visitor want to be part of this world.
Discussion: @tiniv
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Tech and media groups draw battle lines for mobile superiority  —  Verizon-AOL deal and Facebook's news tie-up reveal industry shift  —  Tracking the technology world's upheavals is like studying the shifting of tectonic plates: the direction of movement may be obvious …
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Slack launches Slack Variety Pack, a podcast featuring stories about work and life  —  SLACK'S NEW PODCAST: “ ‘THIS AMERICAN LIFE’ MEETS ‘OFFICE SPACE’ MEETS ‘MONTY PYTHON’ ”  —  For a Silicon Valley phenom, Slack has an atypically low-key personality.  Yes, its goal—getting the busy people …
Discussion: @harrymccracken and TIME
 
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Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Discussion: @peterhlewis
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams from Research to DeepMind

 
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