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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Trump administration ramps up efforts to control media by giving preferential access to friendly outlets and excluding others — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration “can get around the media when the media doesn't tell the truth, so I like that.”
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Nick Ayers, a top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, is a major investor in IJR, which got exclusive access to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week — Nick Ayers, a top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, is an investor in Independent Journal Review, a social media-geared site for young conservatives.
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Media Matters for America, Washington Post, @nick_ayers, The Independent, PEN America and iMediaEthics
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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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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Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider:
Chance the Rapper says Apple paid him $500K “plus a commercial” to exclusively stream his album Coloring Book on Apple Music for two weeks — After some criticism about the artist's integrity and independence, Chance the Rapper made a series of tweets and revealed …
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Roy Greenslade / The Guardian:
George Osborne's appointment as editor of the Evening Standard shows media owners' comfort with overt Tory partisanship, with disturbing democratic implications — George Osborne's appointment as editor of London Evening Standard confirms a trend with disturbing democratic implications
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BBC:
George Osborne, Conservative MP, has been appointed editor of the London Evening Standard; he intends to stay on as MP in new role
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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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Adweek, AgencySpy, @adage and @media_sense
The Guardian:
UK unit of ad agency Havas, which spends about $217M/year, joins British gov't in pulling ads from Google and YouTube after ads run next to extremist content — Havas becomes first major global marketing company to pull entire ad spend after talks with tech company break down
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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
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Digital Commerce 360, AdExchanger, Mashable, New York Magazine, Fortune, Google, @glenngabe and @charlesarthur
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
An analysis of four NJ weeklies bought by Gannett last year found they now include fewer and less substantive community news articles — When Gannett bought North Jersey Media Group last year, devotees of the family-owned company's newspapers worried how a national media giant would tread on their local media turf.
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Nieman Lab
Josh Russell / Courthouse News Service:
NYT brings a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice, seeking records on legal reviews of Trump's executive orders, son-in-law's role, emoluments clause — MANHATTAN (CN) - The New York Times brought a federal lawsuit to force the Justice Department to hand over records about its legal reviews …
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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us12.campaign-archive2.com, @digiday, @dangillmor, @marklittlenews, @lheron, @mrjohncrowley, @shansquared and @fedecherubini
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 and Engadget
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