Mediagazer: Criticism of The Skimm's tone is mean-spirited, petty, elitist, and distracts from more important things, like actual villainy (Foster Kamer/Mashable)

4:45 PM ET, May 21, 2017

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Nick Hopkins / The Guardian:

100+ internal training manuals and other docs show guidelines for Facebook content moderators on topics like violence, hate speech, terrorism, porn, self-harm — Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Facebook releases guidelines advising publishers that its users value meaningful stories, respectful behavior, and authentic content — Facebook on Friday released guidelines for publishers that will sound familiar to close observers of the social giant's often-fraught relationship with news organizations.

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Christina Cauterucci / Slate:

The Skimm's patronizing tone assumes that female readers aren't interested in serious, non-snarky news coverage — For many concerned citizens of the world, the scariest part of Donald Trump's election wasn't that a lying, authoritarian know-nothing was about to become president.

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Foster Kamer / Mashable:

Criticism of The Skimm's tone is mean-spirited, petty, elitist, and distracts from more important things, like actual villainy — So! Right now on the parts of the internet mostly occupied by People Who Work In the Business of Content (or as known by their Hebrew name: Media Schmucks) …

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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:

By creating Fox News, Roger Ailes ushered in a generation of conservative media celebrities like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck — Fox News powerhouse Roger Ailes dies — It can be argued that no person is more responsible for the current state of the conservative movement …

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reflects on six years of reporting on Roger Ailes, who once hired private investigator to track the reporter

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News says it has fired Bob Beckel, co-host of its primetime program “The Five”, for an insensitive remark to an African-American employee

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Reuters:
Sexual harassment suits against Ailes could face a major hurdle with his death, due to a 19th-century New York state law known as “dead man's statute”

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

Two security guards pinned John M. Donnelly, a reporter for CQ Roll Call, against a wall when he tried to ask a question of an FCC Commissioner; FCC apologized — John M. Donnelly, a reporter for CQ Roll Call, said that he was shoved against a wall by two security guards after he tried …

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Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Sources: Facebook's TV-like shows, set for mid-June launch, have been delayed at least until late July — One challenge is figuring out where these shows will live outside of Facebook's video tab. — Facebook's big push into original video is taking longer than expected.

David Weigel / Washington Post:

The reemergence of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory underscores the persistence of the false news ecosystem — On July 10, at 4:19 a.m., gunfire was detected in the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood. Not five minutes later, police found Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer …

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Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:

The personal-essay boom ended after Trump's election, when subjects like relationships, self-image, and intimate struggle lost their social relevance — There's a certain kind of personal essay that, for a long time, everybody seemed to hate. These essays were mostly written by women.

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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

Østlands-Posten, a paywalled daily in Norway with 11K subscribers, holds meetings on local issues to encourage people to speak up in person — 'This project aims to make people feel like they're a part of the community again, and a part of democracy, and for them to trust us as a media organisation'

John Eggerton / Multichannel News:

FCC Launches Review of All Media Regs — Chairman says goal is to “figure out whether or how” to update them — The FCC voted to launch a review of all its rules and regs applying to media outlets, broadcast, cable and satellite. — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai pledged to take a weed whacker …

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Pete Brown / Columbia Journalism Review:

Analysis of live video posted to NYT Facebook page over 14 months shows fewer views, higher engagement, but benefit to subscription base difficult to quantify — The number of live videos posted to The New York Times' main Facebook page has consistently surpassed regular videos …

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New York Times:

Swedish prosecutors announce they have dropped investigation into allegations of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — STOCKHOLM — Prosecutors in Sweden said on Friday that they would drop their investigation into Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who sought refuge …

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Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Julian Assange cannot leave the Ecuadorian embassy yet, as Scotland Yard confirms a warrant for his arrest will still be acted upon should he exit

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James B. Stewart / New York Times:

The Washington Post is now earning in excess of $100M in digital ad revenue and added hundreds of thousands of digital subscribers in Q1 — Since The Washington Post's Watergate-era glory days, my need to read that paper has waxed and waned. I already pay for and scour The New York Times …

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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Interview with Washington Post's Marty Baron on the future of legacy media, working with Bezos, fake news, and covering Trump

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Scott Lewis / Voice of San Diego:

Voice of San Diego will spin off the News Revenue Hub, which helps news organizations manage membership programs, as a nonprofit by July 1 — Several months ago, Voice of San Diego launched the News Revenue Hub, a project to help news organizations outsource the management of their membership programs …

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