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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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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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iMediaEthics, @kelseymsutton, @carloslozadawp, @stephanhokanson, @sdkstl, @daviduberti, @jillgeisler and @hadas_gold
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Documents show RT paid $45K for Michael Flynn to fly to Moscow to speak at its 10th anniversary celebration in December 2015; trip included Flynn Jr. — RT, the Russian state-owned television network described by U.S. intelligence officials as “the Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet …
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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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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The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, The Huffington Post, The Next Web, FOX6Now.com, The A.V. Club and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Jane Martinson / The Guardian:
The Guardian pulls all ads from Google and YouTube after ads were placed next to extremist content; news site urges other brands to do the same — Ads for membership scheme were inadvertently placed by Google next to extremist material — The Guardian has withdrawn all its online advertising …
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BetaNews, Business Insider, Talking New Media, @slpng_giants, Business Insider and BetaNews
BBC:
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 …
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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@dmedialab, @mgsiegler and The Daily Beast
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
The majority of editorial staff at Slate have voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East — The majority of editorial staff at Slate have voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East. More than 90 percent of Slate's editorial staff have signed cards …
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Variety, The Wrap, @hamiltonnolan, @mccanner, @alexckaufman, @bypetevernon, @daviduberti, @shelleymiranda and @paulblu
Bloomberg:
Filing: Charter CEO Rutledge received $78M in stock options, $2M in salary, $10.1M in awards and $7.54M bonus in 2016 after signing to stay with firm until 2021 — Most of his pay comes from stock options tied to share price — Follows aquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House
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Multichannel News and Wall Street Journal
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News looks like “mainstream media”, but standard-less work of its opinionators like Hannity, O'Reilly, and Fox & Friends undermines its journalism — A joint news conference in February between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prompted numerous complaints from big-time media outlets.
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@erikwemple, @paulachertok and @jayrosen_nyu
Kyle O'Brien / The Drum:
iHeartMedia adds SmartAudio digital data ad product to its programmatic offerings, says it has already created 700+ audience segment profiles using SmartAudio — Media, entertainment and radio company iHeartMedia introduced SmartAudio, a digital data advertising product and an added feature …
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Radio & Television …, AllAccess.com, Radio World, RAIN News, iHeartMedia, Inc. and Adweek
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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Media Matters for America, @emilybell, Variety, The Wrap, The Daily Beast, @sesameworkshop, Deadline, Consequence of Sound, Mashable, NPR, The Verge, The Huffington Post, Current, New York Times, Common Cause, CPB, @nycjim, Fortune, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @brianstelter and @brianstelter
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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
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CNN, The Wrap, Washington Post, Mashable, Consequence of Sound, Mediaite, Talking New Media, Rolling Stone, Variety, Hit & Run, Forbes, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, The Week, Bryan Alexander, PEN America, Bookseller News, @vivian, Poynter, @brianstelter and @hirokotabuchi
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NYT expands its investigative unit with Michael LaForgia of Tampa Bay Times, Ellen Gabler of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Brian Rosenthal of Houston Chronicle — In the months since the election, America's major newsrooms have been recruiting investigative journalists with the knowledge …
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@evanasmith, @wesleylowery, @johnlpitts, @mlcalderone, @patricksvitek, @poynter, @votreami, @danielleiat, @benmullin and @mccanner
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