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12:05 PM ET, May 23, 2017

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Scribd adds select articles from The Guardian, the NYT, and WSJ, as well as archival content from the FT; the service now has 500K+ subs paying $8.99 a month  —  The content subscription site is adding content from newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Jordan Michael Smith / The Guardian:
Jezebel, now 10 years old, inspired other sites and influenced established women's magazines with humor, provocation, four-letter words, and controversy  —  Fresh, funny and feminist, Jezebel blazed a trail when it launched in 2007.  It forced others to follow - but does it still have a place on the internet it helped to create?
Joseph Otterson / Variety:
MSNBC Reaches Number One For First Time in Weekly Primetime Ratings, Fox News Drops to Third  —  For the first time in its history, MSNBC ranked number one in both total viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic during primetime for a full week among the big three cable news networks.
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Infowars was reportedly granted temporary White House press credentials, which are easier to receive than a permanent pass  —  Far-right website InfoWars was granted temporary White House press credentials on Monday.  —  Jerome Corsi, the Washington, DC bureau chief for the site that's known …
Julia Fioretti / Reuters:
EU states approve plan to make social media firms tackle hate speech, introduces 30% quota of European media on video streaming platforms, awaits parliament OK  —  European Union ministers approved plans on Tuesday to make social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam says the company will use Yahoo and AOL's combined platform of 1.3B users to test an OTT video service  —  The long and tortuous sale of Yahoo's internet business to Verizon is expected to close around the middle of June, according to Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam.
Discussion: Ubergizmo and Consumerist
Luke Mullins / Washingtonian:
Profile of Matt Boyle, Washington editor of Breitbart News, who says he is still in regular communication with Steve Bannon  —  The very unlikely rise of a media phenomenon in Trump's Washington.  —  Matt Boyle went from an outsider ridiculed for his awkward mien and his activist tendencies …
Discussion: @mckaycoppins
Monika Bickert / The Guardian:
In response to leak of its content moderation guidelines, Facebook tries to explain “how and where we draw the line”  —  Our reviewing of difficult posts and images is complex and challenging.  We appreciate the Guardian revealing how tough it is to get the balance right
Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
The prospect of Joe Lieberman as FBI director does not bode well for press freedom  —  Former Senator Joe Lieberman is reportedly President Trump's leading choice to replace the recently-fired James Comey as FBI director.  If you're a person who values free speech and press freedom rights …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Layoffs hit the Sacramento Bee, the latest in a series of staff reductions executed by its parent company McClatchy  —  The Sacramento Bee on Monday enacted a round of layoffs, the latest in a series of staff reductions executed by its corporate parent, The McClatchy Company.
Discussion: @nickmiller510 and @poynter
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter has hired Todd Swidler, former senior vice president of video and partnerships at Bloomberg, to run its live video business  —  Todd Swidler is joining to run all of Twitter's live video partnerships.  —  Twitter has hired a former media executive to run its growing live video business …
 
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