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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook says it's now limiting News Feed distribution of posts that withhold or exaggerate information at the individual post level, to combat clickbait — Facebook's leverage over news publishers can be worrisome, but today it's putting its muscle to good use.
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David Montero / Los Angeles Times:
Alex Jones settles defamation lawsuit brought against him by Chobani, retracts comments made about refugees in Twin Falls, Idaho — Inside the Chobani Yogurt factory in Twin Falls, Idaho. — Alex Jones backed down. Again. — The far-right conspiracy theorist agreed Wednesday to settle …
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NBC News:
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, TheBlaze, @mlcalderone, @alexwardvox, @daviduberti, @byrontau, 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.
Curt Woodward / BostonGlobe.com:
Sources: IDG, which owns Macworld and other magazines, has laid off more than 90 people in its flagship tech-industry publishing division — International Data Group has laid off more than 90 people in its flagship tech-industry publishing division, less than two months after completing …
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Boston Business Journal, Folio, @petervogel, @curtwoodward and Talking Biz News
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, @jbflint and @anoushasakoui
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Vox, late to YouTube, tripled its viewership over the last year, now with 2.2M subs and 449M total views, credits rise to original, explanatory journalism focus — YouTube is like the Wild West in many ways, including favoring those who set up on the land in the early days.
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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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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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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@amonck, @ryanchittum and @mogensbb
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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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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
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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