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Dana Schwartz / The New York Observer:
Reporter writes open letter to New York Observer owner and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner about anti-Semitic Trump tweets and supporters — My name is Dana Schwartz and I'm an entertainment writer at The Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company.
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
Comcast to allow Netflix onto its X1 video platform later this year, a major move in a relationship that once stoked net neutrality concerns — The move means the once contentious pair are now pals. — Cable giant Comcast will allow popular Web video streaming service Netflix onto its X1 platform …
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Alastair Reid / First Draft News:
BuzzFeed tests global beat to debunk fake news and hoaxes, headed by BuzzFeed Canada editor Craig Silverman — Almost a year to the day after launching its Canadian edition, BuzzFeed announced this week that it would be closing its Ottawa bureau and re-locating staff to the US.
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Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
ComScore: 38% of US smartphone users 25-34 are on Snapchat, 14% of 35 or older, up from 5% and 2% three years ago — An estimated 14% of U.S. smartphone users 35 or older are on messaging app — Paris Zeikos says he noticed a surprising trend on Snapchat.
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Reporter's notes submitted to court in Rolling Stone defamation case for UVA rape story show early inconsistencies in claims of the primary source, “Jackie” — Rolling Stone journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely spent five months investigating a shocking claim of a gang rape at a University …
Choi Chi-yuk / South China Morning Post:
China's internet censor says online media cannot gather news from social media without approval or publish news without verification — Cyberspace Administration's move comes days after Xu Lin, formerly deputy head of the body, takes on top role — China's powerful internet censorship body …
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Alan White / BuzzFeed:
UK publisher Archant announces The New European, a pop-up paper for British “dismayed by Brexit”, for an initial run of 4 issues — The New European, published 8 July, is described as a “pop-up paper” which took Archant just nine days to conceive and get into newsagents.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Martha Stewart broadcasts on Facebook Live, testing sponsorships to create revenue — Veteran TV personality has been testing out Facebook's live streaming, which is much cheaper to produce than a TV show — Veteran TV personality Martha Stewart has made more than two dozen Facebook Live episodes since …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Univision reaches out to English-speaking Latinos with a dedicated section of its website — At the Iowa Caucus back in February, Univision political reporter Fernando Peinado posted a video of one of the now infamous tiebreaker coin tosses with a Spanish caption:
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New York Times:
At least 164 staffers have left Polish state broadcasting and audiences have declined at all state TV channels since January media controls went into effect — WARSAW, Poland — The ax fell for Piotr Maslak just 12 days into the new year, when his new boss at Poland's state television told …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Gawker Media built a tool to push top 10 comment threads to Facebook Instant Articles and AMP — For many publishers, comments are an important way to create reader engagement. There are few places where that's more true than Gawker Media, where co-founder Nick Denton has made commenting …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Source: International Business Times considers doubling its Bangalore-based US edition news team after US layoffs — The International Business Times is considering doubling the size of its team in Bangalore, following mass layoffs in its New York office, POLITICO has learned.
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