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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 …
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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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Diane Haithman / Los Angeles Business Journal:
Filing: Los Angeles biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong increases stake in Tronc to hold within 1% of controlling shareholder Michael Ferro — L.A. biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has upped his stake in Los Angeles Times parent tronc Inc. to 24 percent, nearly overtaking majority …
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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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.
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 …
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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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Daily Beast reporter Nico Hines apologizes for story about Olympic athletes using Grindr, posted and retracted seven months ago, returns as senior editor — Seven months ago, The Daily Beast ran a story of mine that never should have been conceived, written, or published. For that, I am deeply sorry.
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Sami Main / Adweek:
The co-founders of Mental Floss, Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, are leaving to develop podcasts at HowStuffWorks — Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur are moving on — Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur started Mental Floss as a campus magazine at Duke University in 2001 …
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Reddit to introduce user profiles, let users post directly to their profiles and follow other users' pages; feature debuts with three high-profile users — By injecting bits of Facebook and Twitter — The next big shift in Reddit's evolution may look quite familiar.
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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.
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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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