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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Prince's Warner Music catalog returning Sunday to subscription-streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Napster, and iHeartRadio — Songs of late music legend Prince will again be available on multiple streaming-music services on Sunday, in releases timed for the 59th Grammy Awards.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Political journalists now must do the tedious job of second-grade level fact checking of Trump administration statements — Mike Allen of Axios counseled journalists to appreciate these times. “Enjoy this — soak it in,” said Allen in a chat with Breitbart News. — Sorry, but there's not much to enjoy.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: Bleacher Report lays off about 50, most of them junior editors that managed contributor content, commits to video and college football coverage — Bleacher Report is finally washing its hands of the amateur contributor business the company originally made its name on.
Facebook:
Facebook commits to an audit of its ad metrics by the Media Rating Council, the industry's measurement watchdog, following data controversy — As a partner to over 4 million advertisers across a wide range of organizations and objectives, we want to provide transparency, choice and accountability.
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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Bill Keller, editor in chief of The Marshall Project, which is amping up its coverage of immigration and deportation and hiring a Washington reporter — President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his false claim that the country's murder rate is the highest it has been in 47 years.
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BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Is expanding its French website and plans to launch French TV station at the end of 2017, after the French election — The Russian broadcaster's global influence is continuing to expand, with extra staff being hired ahead of the French presidential election - with a TV channel to follow by the end of the year.
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@millermena, @miriamelder and The Times of Israel
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Profile of Keith Olbermann, whose new GQ political web series, The Resistance, has been getting more than 2M views per episode — “If you're going to travel with me, you cannot precisely characterize the area I live in," Keith Olbermann wrote in an email. “Nothing more detailed than ‘midtown’ …
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Sami Main / Adweek:
How The New York Times is growing T Brand Studio, its branded content arm with over 100 employees, investing in new tech like AR and VR, acquisitions, more — Like other news and media companies, The New York Times has its own branded content studio: T Brand Studio.
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David Conn / The Guardian:
Liverpool Football Club bans The Sun from its stadium over the newspaper's notorious coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy when 96 fans were killed — Liverpool Football Club have banned the Sun from their Anfield stadium and Melwood training ground over the newspaper's notorious coverage …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Google has warned several prominent journalists, including Jonathan Chait and Julia Ioffe, that state-sponsored hackers are trying to break into their inboxes — Google has warned a number of prominent journalists that state-sponsored hackers are attempting to steal their passwords and break …
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Justina Crabtree / CNBC:
A look at the encryption platforms helping facilitate leaks from Trump's White House, including SecureDrop and Signal, which are growing in popularity — As far as leaks out of new U.S. President Donald Trump's administration go, the saying “when it rains, it pours,” might be appropriate.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Profile of R. Emmett Tyrrell, founder of The American Spectator and the first conservative editor to embrace Trump — It's easy enough to find editors these days who say they saw Donald Trump coming, hard to find ones who are telling the truth about that. By my estimation perhaps …
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