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Analysis finds ads for big brands placed on politically extreme and derogatory content across the web, highlighting broader issues with programmatic advertising — As the owner of a small business in liberal Massachusetts, John Ellis was a natural sympathizer of the nationwide call …
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Jack Neff / Ad Age:
The source of recent stories about brands running ads beside extremist content is Eric Feinberg, a marketer with a patented solution to the problem — Major marketers' ads have likely been showing up on or near YouTube videos promoting terrorism, neo-Nazi groups and other web content for a long time.
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Wall Street Journal:
As Netflix spends an expected $6B+ on 70+ original shows this year, TV rivals who once saw Netflix as a partner say the firm is driving up costs, hogging talent — The streaming-video service is hogging talent and pushing up prices, spurring pushback from rival TV producers who once saw it as a partner; 70 new titles this year
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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hollywood studios may soon release new movies for video-on-demand fewer than 45 days after their big screen debut, priced between $30 and $50 — Hollywood studios are planning to move ahead with ‘premium’ video-on-demand, making major movies available to home viewers only weeks after they hit theaters.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sources: White House press official Boris Epshteyn, a college friend of Eric Trump's known for tangling with TV network staff, is let go from press job — Boris Epshteyn, an official in the White House press office who had a contentious relationship with television producers and was once …
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Sources: Tomi Lahren now permanently off Glenn Beck's TheBlaze after declaring herself pro-choice — MORE FROM: … Tomi Lahren won't be appearing on Glenn Beck's multiplatform network, TheBlaze, anymore. — Sources say Lahren — who was suspended last week after flip-flopping on abortion …
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The Atlantic:
The Atlantic is opening an international bureau in London, which will be led by National Correspondent James Fallows who will be the mag's first Europe editor — Washington, D.C. (March 27, 2017)—The Atlantic today announced a major expansion across the Atlantic, with plans for 10 editorial …
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Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
Source: Quartz earned $1M+ on $30M+ in revenue in 2016, plans to add 50 staffers to New York headquarters and 18 elsewhere, bringing total to about 270 — The site has become profitable and plans to expand — Through humor, a mobile-friendly format and distinctive reporting …
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Columbia Journalism Review:
How magazines like The Nation, Mother Jones, and Wired are balancing rigorous print tradition of fact-checking with the swift pace of digital publishing — Days after Kellyanne Conway uttered the now-infamous phrase “alternative facts” during a TV interview, Mother Jones magazine launched …
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@brodiegal, @c_chisholm, @cjr and Talking Biz News
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Enrique Acevedo, the Univision anchor spearheading the network's Trump coverage, says Republicans are avoiding appearing on the network — After feuding with Trump, the top Spanish-language network is struggling to get Capitol Hill Republicans to go on air.
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Patricia Hernandez / Kotaku:
PewDiePie reflects on anti-semitism scandal, which led to online harassment of a WSJ reporter who bylined the article that brought the scandal to light — It's been a little over a month since the blow-up surrounding Felix ‘Pewdiepie’ Kjellberg, and the Wall Street Journal report leading to the cancellation of his premium show.
David Filipov / Washington Post:
A first-person account of what it's like to be the token American journalist on a Russian state TV show — MOSCOW — I'm standing in a glistening TV studio that evokes “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” crossbred with “Fox NFL Sunday.” The stage is a large, brightly lit clock face …