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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
In her final column, Liz Spayd says NYT's elimination of public editor position sends “ambiguous signal” and wonders if the paper is growing weary of criticism — There probably hasn't been a time in recent American history when the role of the media was more important than now.
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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
The New York Times erred by ending its public editor position because the job adds credibility in the face of wide efforts to discredit the media — No, New York Times! Not the public editor! Why, with trust in news organizations at an all-time low, would you cut the one position dedicated …
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Politico, iMediaEthics and Media Matters for America
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
The $5.7B defamation lawsuit brought by Beef Products Inc. against ABC over “pink slime” reports goes to trial in South Dakota on Monday — A journey to South Dakota to hear arguments whether preconceived negative spin in the media should result in massive punishments.
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@alexweprin, @michaelstjames, @taylorjwofford, @jo_tovey, @hadas_gold, @emily_cohn, @eriqgardner, @eriqgardner and @eriqgardner
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Four journalism groups ask congressional ethics office to investigate Greg Gianforte's alleged assault of Ben Jacobs and also ask Trump to denounce violence — Four groups representing journalists plan to call on Congress to investigate the alleged assault of a reporter by Rep.-elect Greg Gianforte …
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The Guardian, @freepress and Real Stories
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Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times:
Google's Contributor services now let some publishers ask ad-block users to whitelist sites or pay a small fee per page view to make up for lost ad revenue — Group to launch ‘funding choices’ and charge people through new Contributor service — Read next
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@matthewstoller and @jason_kint, more at Techmeme »
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George Slefo / Ad Age:
Google says it will preinstall an ad filter in Chrome starting early 2018 aimed at ads deemed “annoying” by the Coalition for Better Ads
Google says it will preinstall an ad filter in Chrome starting early 2018 aimed at ads deemed “annoying” by the Coalition for Better Ads
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@mathewi, DoubleClick, Financial Times, AdExchanger, 24/7 Wall St., BetaNews, Silicon UK, MacRumors, Marketing Week, The Guardian, Pocket-lint, Inside AdWords, Neowin, VentureBeat, Editor & Publisher, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Adweek, Chromium Blog, Engadget and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google will give publishers at least 6 months to prepare for a Chrome-based ad filter coming next year, offering a self-service tool for analyzing ads
Sources: Google will give publishers at least 6 months to prepare for a Chrome-based ad filter coming next year, offering a self-service tool for analyzing ads
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@matthewstoller, Nieman Lab, Consumerist, MSPoweruser, Fortune, the Econsultancy blog, BGR, Softpedia News, Ars Technica UK, Axios, ZDNet, Recode, Business Insider, @reneritchie, @film_girl, The Verge, TechCrunch and @mathewi
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Interview with Nader Sobhan of iflix, which recently raised $90M to take on Netflix in emerging markets, on producing an original show in Arabic and censorship — After launching in Asia in 2015, streaming service iflix is positioning itself as a low-cost alternative to Netflix in emerging markets.
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Q&A with Megyn Kelly, whose new Sunday night NBC show debuts June 4, on forthcoming interviews, the future of Fox News, and more — Megyn Kelly in 90 seconds — Megyn Kelly is managing expectations for her move to NBC — up to a point. — “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly,” …
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Real Stories
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Tax experts question relationship between DailyCaller.com and nonprofit Daily Caller News Foundation, which produces most of the content for the site — The Daily Caller is a media success story, a conservative news site that in seven years of existence has become one of the most called-upon outlets …
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EXPOSEDbyCMD, @johnbonazzo, Observer, @byamberphillips, @callumborchers, @sue_sullivan, @byamberphillips and Wonkette
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Wall Street Journal is shutting down its standalone What's News app on June 30 with plans to revamp its main news app — The Journal is the latest news organization to build a mobile-first secondary app as a user-interface playground — and then return focus to the core app.
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@s_m_i, @annett_tim, @s_m_i and @jbenton
Ed Christman / Billboard:
Music publisher Concord Bicycle Music acquires Imagem, paying what sources say is close to $600M and making Concord sixth largest music publisher in the world — Justin Timberlake during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 11, 2016 in Cannes, France.
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New York Times
Nick Muscavage / MY CENTRAL JERSEY:
New Jersey lawmakers introduce the Civic Information Consortium bill that would allocate $20M from the sale of NJ's public TV licenses to fund local journalism — TRENTON - A bill was introduced in the state Legislature on Thursday that would create a fund to promote innovative journalism and support local journalism in New Jersey.
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@nmuscavage, @mathewi, @freepressaction, @sstirling, @njassemblydems and Current
Richard Horgan / Adweek:
Lifehacker makes new hires and launches parenting site Offspring, the second vertical launched in 2017 by Gizmodo Media Group — The first big content stamp applied by new EIC Melissa Kirsch — A couple of weeks before the Memorial Day weekend holiday, Lifehacker editor in chief Melissa Kirsch sent out the following email to staff.
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Offspring and @jmrivera02