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George Osborne, Conservative MP, has been appointed editor of the London Evening Standard; he intends to stay on as MP in new role — Former Chancellor George Osborne has been appointed editor of the London Evening Standard newspaper. — The Conservative MP will succeed Sarah Sands …
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Google UK managing director Ronan Harris says company is committed to updating its ad policies to give brands more control over where their ads appear — Google has responded to a growing number of brands' suspending their advertising from its services after finding their ads were appearing next to inappropriate and extremist content.
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@charlesarthur, @larakiara, @marksweney and The Star Online
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
FBI arrests person who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald — An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge today …
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@verge, @kurteichenwald, @kurteichenwald, @kurteichenwald, @kurteichenwald, @kurteichenwald and twitchy.com
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
37 publishers have signed up for CrossCheck, spearheaded by non-profit First Draft News, as newsrooms put aside competitiveness in favor of collaboration — Three-week-old fact-checking coalition CrossCheck is gaining steam. — A total of 37 publishers are signed up to the project, spearheaded by non-profit First Draft News.
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BBC, @dangillmor, @marklittlenews, @lheron, @mrjohncrowley, @shansquared, us12.campaign-archive2.com and @fedecherubini
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix to replace star ratings with thumbs up and thumbs down in coming weeks after A/B testing showed thumbs got 200% more ratings — Get ready to say goodbye to star ratings on Netflix: The company is getting ready to replace stars with Pandora-like thumbs ups and thumbs downs in the coming weeks.
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Home Media Magazine, The Verge, /Film, Quartz, Consequence of Sound, Vanity Fair, Refinery29, Gizmodo, MacRumors, BGR, Engadget, TechCrunch, Consumerist, Mashable, Softpedia News, The Next Web, The Drum, The Huffington Post, FOX6Now.com, Fortune, The A.V. Club and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
NBC News:
Interview with Breitbart EIC Alex Marlowe, who says that Steve Bannon reaches out “every so often” but “not as often as I would have expected” — As one of President Donald Trump's favorite news sources, Breitbart News has been called a lot of names, including …
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@nbcnews, @hadas_gold, @mlcalderone, @nbcinvestigates and @oliverdarcy
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
211 journalists killed in six-year Syrian civil war, with at least 21 held hostage or missing and at least 26 imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders — Some 211 journalists and citizen journalists have been killed in the course of Syria's civil war, which began with a wave …
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@rebecca_vincent and @pressgazette
Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
How The Onion's mostly liberal writers and editors are struggling to lampoon Trump, a target of satire for around two decades — At a headline pitch meeting, the writers of the satirical newspaper try to stay away from low-hanging fruit. — In January, 2013, Donald Trump's special counsel, Michael Cohen, sent a letter to the Onion.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson excludes pool reporter representing US networks from DMZ meeting, allowing a team from Fox News to be admitted instead — During his trip to the Korean Demilitarized Zone Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson excluded the pool reporter representing U.S. networks …
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Poynter, PEN America, @brucebartlett, The Korea Heald and @poynter
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
More than 4M people tuned in to watch Rachel's Maddow's reveal of Trump's tax records on Tuesday, the biggest audience in her show's nine years on the air — Rachel Maddow's slow-walk reveal of President Trump's decade-old tax records on Tuesday night did not earn her much journalistic praise.
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@mgsiegler, @dmedialab, The Daily Beast and @realdonaldtrump
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Some users report Google Home playing a promo for “Beauty and the Beast”; Google says it “wasn't intended” to be an ad, will keep experimenting — Google Assistant now does advertising — Today some Google Home owners are hearing something extra when they ask …
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The Register, Wall Street Journal, The Hustle, The Drum, The Next Web, @brysonmeunier, CNNMoney, 9to5Google, Forbes, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Engadget, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, @brianroemmele, @dannysullivan, Android Police, Mashable, @internetofs**t, @lexnfx, Business Insider, @backlon and @caseynewton, more at Techmeme »
Anya George Tharakan / Reuters:
YouTube signs a multi-year deal with esports platform FACEIT to stream its competitive gaming league, the Esports Championship Series — Alphabet Inc's YouTube is doubling down on the lucrative business of competitive gaming, where players square off on virtual games for big prize money in tournaments.
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Business Insider and 9to5Google
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
IJR retracts story that implied a link between Obama's Hawaii trip and judge's immigration order, saying it “does not meet our editorial standards” — Independent Journal Review on Thursday took down a story that implied Barack Obama's recent trip to Hawaii had something …
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Death and Taxes, IJR, @woodruffbets, @ijrviraleditor, @oliverdarcy, Washington Post, @jeneps, @hadas_gold, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @bencjacobs, @sdkstl and @chrisgeidner
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sources: congressional reporter quits IJR over site's direction and concern over his credibility from the association, cites post about Obama trip as last straw
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The Independent, iMediaEthics, @kelseymsutton, @carloslozadawp, @stephanhokanson, @sdkstl, @daviduberti, @jillgeisler and @hadas_gold
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