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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Number of plaintiffs claiming racial discrimination and harassment at Fox News rises to 13 as anchor Kelly Wright joins suit, alleging involvement of Bill Shine — Fox News still under grand jury probe — Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Noto says Twitter is aiming to air live video 24 hours a day, every day inside its apps and site, will pitch handful of shows at NewFronts next week — Get ready for nonstop live video inside Twitter. — The company, which reports first quarter earnings Wednesday …
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Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast:
Macron campaign in France refused to give accreditation to RT France and Sputnik and fights back against hackers aiming at campaign and news media — PARIS—Looking back on the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton last year, one sees an appalling passivity and helplessness …
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter beats Q1 estimates with $548M revenue and 328M MAUs, up 9M QoQ and 7M more than expected, says DAUs up 14% YoY; stock up 11% in pre-market trading — Twitter's business is shrinking, but not as much as Wall Street expected — Twitter just had its best quarter of user growth since early 2015.
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Politico:
With 73 percent of internet publishing jobs based in Boston-NY-DC or West Coast corridors, the US media bubble is real and growing more extreme — We crunched the data on where journalists work and how fast it's changing. The results should worry you. — How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell?
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Inside Zuckerberg's and Facebook's evolving approach to misinformation and filter bubbles, now that the issues have been more openly acknowledged — Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped start. But is the most powerful tool for connection …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google allows users to report offensive autocomplete suggestions and Featured Snippets, will show more authoritative content for obscure and infrequent queries — Google knows it has a search quality problem. It's been plagued since November with concerns about fake news …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute study: widespread consumer adoption of VR is still years away as news organizations face investment obstacles — “I'm afraid that more and more people in news organizations use 360 for stories that are not interesting. Bad content will keep people away from watching it."
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Matthew Balan / Mediaite:
NYT reporter Glenn Thrush says Trump's press conferences are more democratic than Obama's were and that he's better at reaching out to individual journalists — Glenn Thrush of the New York Times made a surprising claim about President Donald Trump in relation to his predecessor, Barack Obama …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The Huffington Post has rebranded as HuffPost and has redesigned its site, opting for a tabloid style evocative of the New York Daily News in the 1970s — “The splash is really the best of our editorial voice...In thinking about who we are, this is the best reflection of it from a product perspective."
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Rebecca Stewart / The Drum:
Snapchat Discover launches in Germany with Vice, Spiegel Online, Bild, and Sky Sports as publishing partners — Vice, Sky Sports, Spiegel Online and Bild have signed up to become Snapchat's first partners for its Discover platform in Germany. — The messaging app has launched …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett reports Q1 print ad revenues down 17.7% YoY, local digital ad revenue up 3.7%, and mobile digital ad revenue up 39.2% — Warnings were that the first quarter of 2017 would be about as bad financially as the final two of 2016 for newspaper organizations.
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill — The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill, a move that would have given …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In the Trump era, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has started beating Fox News in the key 25-54 demographic which determines advertising rates — Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels. But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.
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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Bill O'Reilly speaks publicly for first time since Fox News departure, says he will host daily podcast, free until Thu., then only available to Premium Members
Bill O'Reilly speaks publicly for first time since Fox News departure, says he will host daily podcast, free until Thu., then only available to Premium Members
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