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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump ethics waiver allows Steve Bannon to interact with Breitbart despite prior ties to the news outlet — Exemptions aid Conway, Bannon and four ex-lobbyists. — President Donald Trump's executive order on ethics has been waived at least 11 times since the administration came into office in January …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sources: Trump's leading candidate to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors is Michael Pack, a Bannon ally and conservative documentarian and publisher — With sweeping new powers, the position would oversee public media reaching 100 countries. — The Trump administration's leading candidate …
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blog.pinboard.in:
Pinboard has acquired bookmarking service Delicious, will put the service into read-only mode June 15 — © Nine Fives Software. Problems or questions? Contact <support@pinboard.in>
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Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
The Last Word host, Lawrence O'Donnell, announces new contract with MSNBC that will cover the “next couple of years” — “The Last Word” host has been negotiating a new contract with the cable news network amid reports of behind-the-scenes tensions
Reuters:
After committing to EU to remove hate speech, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Microsoft remove 59% of hate speech in 24 hours on average, up from 28% in Dec. — Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube have stepped up both the speed and number of removals of hate speech …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The AP Stylebook now includes new guidelines on data: requesting it, scraping it, reporting on it, and publishing it — It's fitting that, in a year when the Panama Papers investigation won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting (the entire leaked data set for that investigation …
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New York Post:
Sources: Verizon made a proposal to acquire Charter, but the offer, valued at $100B+, was rejected because it was too low and Charter wasn't ready to sell — Verizon boss Lowell McAdam, his company facing slowing sales of mobile phones, made a proposal to acquire cable-TV giant Charter Communications …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The Intercept is launching a three-tiered paid membership program with perks like invites to events, access to behind-the-scenes reports, and tote bags — “We'd be happy to see a healthy portion of our budget paid for by the membership program.” — Just because a newsroom is backed …
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Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central:
Microsoft Garage launches curated news aggregator app Your News for Xbox One — Your Xbox One might not be the first place you'd think to install a dedicated news app, but Microsoft's experimental Garage division is filling that niche. Called Your News, the Microsoft Garage project acts …
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Colin Lecher / The Verge:
Hillary Clinton discusses misinformation, need for social media curation, and how media impacted her campaign — In an interview today at Code Conference, Hillary Clinton urged social media platforms to figure out new ways to slow “the weaponization and manipulation” of information …
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Jason Guerrasio / Business Insider:
Screening Room, Sean Parker's plan to offer major movies still in theaters for $50 to home viewers, gains little traction after a year — Last year, the tech billionaire Sean Parker made headlines with his latest startup: a streaming service called Screening Room that would give users …
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Stewart Clarke / Variety:
NBC News acquires 25% stake in France-based Euronews for $30M, deal will create EuronewsNBC brand — NBC's news division has acquired a 25% stake in European news network Euronews, in a deal that will close this week and that will see the creation of a new EuronewsNBC brand bearing the American broadcaster's famous peacock.
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