Mediagazer: 37 publishers have signed up for CrossCheck, spearheaded by non-profit First Draft News, as newsrooms put aside competitiveness in favor of collaboration (Jessica Davies/Digiday)

3:45 PM ET, March 17, 2017

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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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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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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.

Discussion: @digiday, BBC, @lheron, @mrjohncrowley, @shansquared, @dangillmor, @marklittlenews, us12.campaign-archive2.com and @fedecherubini

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.

Discussion: @media_sense and @adage

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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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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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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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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 …

Discussion: @pressgazette and @rebecca_vincent

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.

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.

Discussion: @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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