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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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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.
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, @kemc, Real Stories and @freepress
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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
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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@cnnmoney and Real Stories
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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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
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@mathewi, @matthewstoller, Nieman Lab, DoubleClick, Financial Times, AdExchanger, Consumerist, the Econsultancy blog, BGR, Fortune, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, Inside AdWords, Softpedia News, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Ars Technica UK, Axios, ZDNet, Recode, Business Insider, @reneritchie, @film_girl, TechCrunch, Chromium Blog, The Verge, Variety and Ad Age, more at Techmeme »
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, @byamberphillips, @callumborchers, @sue_sullivan, @johnbonazzo, @byamberphillips, Observer 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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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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@sstirling, @mathewi, @nmuscavage, @njassemblydems, @freepressaction and Current
Max Willens / Digiday:
Refinery29 gets a 63% click-to-open rate on its biggest newsletter, Refinery29 Everywhere, higher than the average rate of 15% for media newsletters — Refinery29 knows how to stand out in its readers' inboxes. Its biggest newsletter, Refinery29 Everywhere, boasts a click-to-open rate of 63 percent …
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@digiday and @meena_thiru
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
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Asia Credit Reporter, Seoul — 
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Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
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Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
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Retail Reporter, MN — 
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Los Angeles Issues Reporter, CA — 
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National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
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