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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
36% of smartphone users in Asia-Pacific region use browsers that automatically block ads; globally the adblocking userbase is at 419M, up 90% YoY, says PageFair — The rise of mobile adblocking may not be burning publishers in the U.S. so far, but the story is very different in Asia.
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
Study: 1 in 5 smartphone users globally are blocking ads, a 90% increase in 2015, but only 2.2% in US as of March — Many of the world's largest Internet companies, like Google and Facebook, rely heavily on advertising to finance their online empires. — But that business model …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Facebook, Google, Twitter promise to review most requests to remove hate speech within 24 hours, as European Commission unveils guidelines to halt its spread — Together with the European Commission, they unveil a new code of conduct designed to avoid the “spread of illegal hate speech.”
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Stephen Marche / New York Times:
Esquire columnist Stephen Marche, frequent Gawker target, defends the company, says it provides an essential function to democracy, holds tech titans to account — I HAVE been attacked pretty much my entire career by Gawker. I made its list of “least important writers” twice …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Gawker.com's traffic drops 37% in April from previous month to 7.6M, the lowest its been in at least 3 years, according to comScore — Caveat emptor, Gawker gawkers: Any company considering buying the controversial digital publisher should know that its namesake site has hit some serious traffic lows.
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Ken Doctor / Politico:
S. Mitra Kalita, LA Times managing editor for digital strategy, joins CNN as VP of programming — Turmoil on one side, a $20 M. investment on the other — The Los Angeles Times has just lost an important digital leader, as S. Mitra Kalita — just named as one of the ten most poachable players in media …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Glenn Beck suspended by SiriusXM for a week over comments made by guest, fiction writer Brad Thor, about presidential candidate Donald Trump — Satellite radio company SiriusXM has suspended Glenn Beck's syndicated show this week and is “evaluating” the program's place over comments made last week by one of Beck's guests.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Analysis of Pulitzer data shows 84% of winners over last 100 years have been white; in the last decade, women have made up one-third of journalism prize winners — Within the cardboard boxes and reams of microfilm that hold the last century of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism lies …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
New York Times' Paris staff launch bid to reduce local job losses by asking bosses to cut staff in London and Hong Kong offices — Paper announced in April it was to relocate or axe about 60 roles in shift of international operations to London — New York Times staff in Paris have launched …
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Incoming CEO of Salon, Jordan Hoffner, hints to staff of big changes ahead, including expanding the business through acquisitions — Jordan Hoffner, who last week was named CEO of Salon Media Group, already has big plans to turn the company's business around.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Jane Friedman, co-founder of publisher Open Road Integrated Media Inc., steps down as CEO, replaced by company president Paul Slavin — Paul Slavin takes over the role as the digital books and multimedia company seeks its first profit — Veteran publisher Jane Friedman is stepping …
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Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:
How fake news sites frequently trick big-time journalists — It would've been one hell of a story. Early this month, “news” surfaced that Michael Jordan—yes, the Michael Jordan—had threatened to move his NBA team, the Charlotte Hornets, from North Carolina unless the state repealed …
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