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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Guardian confirms it has stopped publishing its articles to Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles — Publishers aren't happy with the deal platforms are cutting them. Now, the Guardian has dropped both Facebook's fast-loading Instant Article format and will no longer publish content on Apple News.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube says 12M videos, including those with LGBTQ+ topics, are now available in Restricted Mode after fix, adds way to report videos wrongly excluded — YouTube today claims to have fixed an issue with its service that was causing it to incorrectly filter content in “Restricted Mode” …
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Sources: Facebook is offering publishers a monthly sum in exchange for a minimum amount of produced video, to host mid-roll ads — The new deals include a mix of both live and produced video commitments. — Facebook wants to pay publishers to create more produced video as part of a plan …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: James Murdoch's discomfort with Fox's editorial approach will not cause him to change its programming and risk tampering with profits — Ex-Fox analyst: Bill O'Reilly was untouchable — What is Fox News without Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly? — That is the billion-dollar question surely …
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Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at whether Montana alt-weekly the Indy will remain a local media watchdog after being bought by Lee Enterprises, the state's largest newspaper chain — 1820 WORDS — THE MISSOULA INDEPENDENT, the decades-old western Montana alt-weekly, was acquired last week by Lee Enterprises, the state's largest newspaper chain.
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
In relentless tweeting since Inauguration Day, Louise Mensch has accused at least 210 people or organizations of being under Russian government influence — Since last November's election, the former British politician Louise Mensch has transformed herself into the leader …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Sources: Google and partners in Coalition for Better Ads are working on a tool designed for publishers to filter some ads; IAB head says tool isn't ad blocker — A Chrome feature to filter ads is coming — just don't call it an ad-blocker. — After seven months of work …
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George Slefo / Ad Age:
Google, Microsoft, major ad buyers and publishers coordinating on ad blocking plan, says Coalition for Better Ads' counsel, who expects a rollout by end-of-year
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Scott Sayare / The Guardian:
How Marine Le Pen used the French press to lead the far-right Front National into the political mainstream — Yet Marine Le Pen has managed to lead the far-right Front National into the political mainstream - and she couldn't have done it without the press
Thanks:@ravichandrans25
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Financial Times launches Due Diligence, a new subscriber-only M&A newsletter used partly to present scoops it can't fit elsewhere — “We want to draw people's attention to the fact that we cover the entire totality of a deal with the same aggression that we would try to get a scoop."
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Harry A. Jessell / TVNewsCheck:
A day after FCC eased TV station ownership limits, Sinclair Broadcast Group announces acquisition of 14 TV stations in 8 markets from Bonten Media for $240M — The deal will add Bonten Media Group's 14 stations in eight markets that reach approximately 1% of the U.S. TV households.
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Andrew Rettman / EUObserver:
Study of ~8M links shared by French users from Nov. 1-April 4 found almost 1 in 4 links did not “adhere to journalistic standards” or used “mythical” narratives — Almost one in four of the internet links shared by French users of social media in the run-up to elections …
Natalia Mazotte / Nieman Lab:
How the Argentinian daily La Nación became a data journalism powerhouse in Latin America, with a six-person data team that works on collaborative investigations — “We have a role that is almost like an NGO. We build and open databases, break with the exclusivist paradigm — we even train competitors!"
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