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Sopan Deb / New York Times:
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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
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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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
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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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
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.
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
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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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
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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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
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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Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
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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Casey Newton / The Verge:
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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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
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
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
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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@digiday and @digihttpster
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
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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