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Trump proposes eliminating national endowments for the arts and humanities and scrapping the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — President Trump is proposing the elimination of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities in his federal budget plan to be released early Thursday …
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Trump's budget cuts would cause “the collapse of the public media system itself” and the end of an “essential national service”, says CPB CEO Patricia Harrison — Funding for PBS, NPR in the crosshairs — President Trump is proposing to end all federal funding for public broadcasting.
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Report: Twitter to open up its live streaming API next week allowing media companies to stream live videos directly to the service — While Twitter has already placed a focus on live streaming with Periscope, it is apparently looking to do even more. According to a report from The Information …
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Fox Networks, Turner, and Viacom announce OpenAP, a system that will standardize targeting of specific TV audiences to ease ad buying across networks — Other TV companies invited to join advanced audience platform OpenAP — Three of the biggest TV companies are joining forces to accelerate the shift towards data-driven ad sales.


After years of undermining the economics of culture, the internet is helping fund old and new art forms, often through subscriptions via platforms like Patreon — One secret to longevity as a pundit is to issue predictions that can't be easily checked. So here's one for the time capsule …
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The Palm Beach local press has been elevated into a source of national news because of its proximity to Trump and deep sourcing within Mar-a-Lago — Local outlets have developed Mar-a-Lago sources for years. “It's also kind of: ‘Area Man Is President,’” said a Palm Beach Post political reporter.
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The Financial Times finds that readers who actively comment are seven times more engaged than those who don't — Commenters get a bad rap. At best, they're trolls. At worst, they hide behind their anonymity to toss stinkbombs of hate speech at well-meaning writers.
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Bill Walsh, a respected Washington Post copy editor who wrote three irreverent books about his craft, dies at 55 — Bill Walsh, a Washington Post copy editor who wrote three irreverent books about his craft, noting evolutions and devolutions of language, the indispensability of hyphens …
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Behind Genius' shift from web annotations to becoming a video-focused media company, after laying off a quarter of its staff last month — Genius, which raised $56.9 million on the promise that it would one day annotate the entire internet, has been losing its minds.
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Murdoch's Sky bid to be investigated by UK's Ofcom to assess if the deal gives too much control of UK media and if his family are '"fit and proper" owners — Ofcom to assess whether deal gives mogul too much control of UK media and whether his family are ‘fit and proper’ owners


Parker Higgins' new project FOIA the Dead automatically sends a FOIA request for the FBI file of every public figure listed in the NYT obituary section — “The dream of doing this is to uncover someone that you would not expect to be under FBI surveillance, and discover that they are."
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The Telegraph says Apple News has become the most effective third-party platform to drive readers to its sites and app; Telegraph posts about 240 articles/day — For The Telegraph, Apple News has become the most effective third-party platform at driving readers to its own sites and app …
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The intense search for a smoking gun tying Trump to Russia invites confirmation bias, forgeries, and fantasy — Fantasy, confirmation bias, and forgeries in the reaction to Trump. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — The strange tale published today by BuzzFeed News of anti-Trump activists duped …
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