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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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The Guardian:
French marketing agency Havas, which spends about $217M/year in UK for clients like O2, joins British govt, others in pulling ads from Google and YouTube — Havas becomes first major global marketing company to pull entire ad spend after talks with tech company break down
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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The Korea Heald, Poynter, @mlcalderone, @brucebartlett, PEN America, @penamerican, @poynter and @stevesilberman
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
The Association of National Advertisers calls for independent ad data audits at Amazon, Foursquare, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter — Amazon, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Foursquare were all put on notice by an advertiser group demanding they open up their walled gardens.
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@media_sense and @adage
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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@digiday, BBC, @lheron, @mrjohncrowley, @shansquared, @dangillmor, @marklittlenews, us12.campaign-archive2.com and @fedecherubini
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
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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@kurteichenwald, Fast Company, @verge, @kurteichenwald, Gizmodo, Vocativ, @kurteichenwald, @kurteichenwald, @kurteichenwald, twitchy.com and New York Magazine
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
ABC News updates tvOS app enabling users to view up to 4 streams at once on a single screen — News junkies, rejoice. ABC News is rolling out an updated Apple TV application, live today, which makes the news division the first to offer a simultaneous multi-stream viewing experience in its tvOS application.
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AppAdvice.com Latest, 9to5Mac, Engadget and Ars Technica
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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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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@pressgazette and @rebecca_vincent
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
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 …
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The Guardian, The Guardian, London Evening Standard, New York Times, @jamesrbuk, BuzzFeed, @peston, @fleetstreetfox, @iamtimdowling, @jimwaterson, @georgeeaton, Telegraph, @shashj, Business Insider, Press Gazette, The Drum, Dailystar.co.uk, Telegraph, @jasoncowleyns, City A.M. and The Sun
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:
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, @jeneps, @hadas_gold, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @bencjacobs, @sdkstl, @chrisgeidner and Washington Post
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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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Washington Post, The Independent, iMediaEthics, @kelseymsutton, @carloslozadawp, @stephanhokanson, @sdkstl, @daviduberti, @jillgeisler and @hadas_gold
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