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Sources: some of the intelligence Trump provided to Russian officials is so secret that American news organizations are still being asked not to report it — Some of the intelligence President Trump provided to Russian officials is so secret that American news organizations are still …
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Columbia Journalism Review, @markberman, CNN, @alexwardvox, @daviduberti, @byrontau, @mlcalderone, TheBlaze, The Resurgent, HuffPost, The Week and Mediaite
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Financial news startup Cheddar raises $19M in Series C round from Raine Ventures and others, valuing the company at $85M — The online video outlet has raised $19 million with Raine Ventures and other backers in a Series C round that valued the startup at $85 million.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Fox News is redesigning its newsroom to enhance communication and creativity among its programming, news, and digital teams, and to create a more open space — Plan is to enhance communication in a more open space at its Midtown headquarters — Fox News has been making big changes …
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Crain's New York Business, @anoushasakoui and @jbflint
Kelly J. O'Brien / Boston Business Journal:
IDG lays off an undisclosed number of employees in the US, including journalists at Macworld — International Data Group, the 53-year-old tech research giant and publisher founded by the late Patrick McGovern, this week laid off an undisclosed number of employees, several months …
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Jimmy Fallon's show has lost nearly 1M viewers in 5 months, as it competes with politics-driven comedy like Colbert's which has become more popular in Trump era — Ambling onto the Art Deco set of “The Tonight Show” for his monologue rehearsal one Monday afternoon, Jimmy Fallon gave the crowd …
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European Federation of Journalists:
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is suing ICIJ journalist Matthew Caruana Galizia for defamation, over Facebook posts linking to Panama Papers docs — Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has filed on the 10th of May 2017 a defamation case against Matthew Caruana Galizia …
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@ryanchittum and @mogensbb
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BBC:
WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, having served 7 years of a 35-year sentence — US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military files to Wikileaks.
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Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Lark Corbeil of the Public News Service, the small non-profit reporter Dan Heyman was working for when he was arrested — BY NOW YOU'VE LIKELY HEARD ABOUT DAN HEYMAN, the 54-year-old journalist arrested last week at the West Virginia capitol for “causing a disturbance.”
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@coreyhutchins, @coreyhutchins, Washington Post and HuffPost
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Since Medium pivoted its strategy, publishers like Pacific Standard and Film School Rejects have left, while others reconsider working with the site — Last May, Medium made publishers an offer they couldn't resist: Free hosting. Advertising dollars. More eyeballs.
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@mcdermott, @caleweissman and @rdmurphy
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
NBCUniversal head of advertising Linda Yaccarino, who oversees $10B in annual ad revenue, on Nielsen, NBCU's new ad inventory, and getting the right “media mix” — After completing her first year as the head of advertising sales for NBCUniversal, Linda Yaccarino went out to dinner with her husband to celebrate.
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Beet.TV
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Gizmodo Media Group releases diversity report: 48% of the company's editorial staff are white, with 52% being female — Journalism is still overwhelmingly White. But that won't change if news organizations don't talk about it. — It was in that spirit that Gizmodo Media Group …
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@joeruiz
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Four phases pro-Trump media goes through to turn a negative story around in under 24 hours: stay quiet, blame and discredit, change news cycle, close the loop — This week has posed a new test for the pro-Trump media — a loose affiliation of news organizations, trolls, and independent journalists …
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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook admits another ad measurement mistake, its tenth since September of 2016, refunds advertisers, saying the error affected just 0.04% of impressions — The mistake — mischarged clicks on video carousel ads by smartphone web users — is the first that directly affected advertisers' wallets.
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