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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Benny Johnson and two others suspended from Independent Journal Review, pending investigation into editorial standards — It was supposed to be Independent Journal Review's week to shine. — The upstart, millennial-focused news website, which has emerged as a favorite …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Fox News analyst Napolitano suspended indefinitely after his unverified claims that British spies wiretapped Trump at behest of Obama — Judge Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, is being kept off the air indefinitely. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images)
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter debuts Periscope Producer API in private beta, letting publishers stream from more devices and services — Twitter is about to make it much easier for media publishers to post live video broadcasts with the launch of a live video API tomorrow morning.
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Twitter's Producer API lets you stream live videos without connecting to Periscope — Twitter is making its Periscope Producer service more accessible with the launch of an API. Available in private beta, this tool enables developers and broadcasters to stream live video through their computer …
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American Press Institute:
Study by Media Insight Project: who shares an article on social media influences the reader more than who produces it — This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google updates ad policies giving more control over ad placement after UK backlash, creates new brand safety tools, and expands hate speech definitions — After U.K. criticism, company creates new brand safety tools — Google also adds refugees to class protected from hate speech
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sources: FBI's Russian-influence probe includes a look at the role played by far-right news sites during Trump campaign — WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dutch telecom company Altice buys France-based video ad tech startup Teads for $307M — “Convergence of telecoms content, and advertising is at the core of our business," says Altice CEO Michel Combes. — European cable and telecom giant Altice, which previously acquired Cablevision Systems …
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Adobe launches Advertising Cloud to help its customers manage and buy its digital and TV ads; launch follows company's acquisition of TubeMogul in December — Adobe has launched a platform called Advertiser Cloud that will allow its customers to manage and buy its digital and TV ads, the company announced Tuesday.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Profile: former Obama WH staffers' Crooked Media, with four podcasts aiming to counter Trump, including “Pod Save America,” which boasts 1.4M downloads/episode — AUSTIN, Tex. — The cultural-political revolution of the Nixon era was neither televised nor sponsored.
Narottam Medhora / Reuters:
Marketing software provider Cision, which owns PR Newswire, Gorkana, and Help a Reporter Out, will go public as part of a merger with Capital Acquisition — Public relations software provider Cision said it would go public as part of a merger with a blank-check company …
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Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian:
BBC is failing in its duty to be impartial about Brexit, say 76 conservative parliamentarians in a letter to senior BBC executives — Broadcaster has characterised Britain as xenophobic and focused too much on regretful leave voters, says group of parliamentarians in letter to BBC chiefs
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