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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times re-examined its February 14 story on Trump campaign links to Russia that Comey testified was inaccurate and stands by its reporting — After re-examining its Feb. 14 article alleging contacts between members of the Trump campaign and senior Russian intelligence officials during …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Comey reinforced or confirmed the bulk of recent mainstream reporting on Trump, but denounced one NYT story as almost entirely inaccurate in his testimony — Flawed: yes. Fake: no. And, sometimes, extremely useful. — That was the portrait of the mainstream news media that emerged …
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Comey says he authorized a “close friend” at Columbia Law School to leak the content of his Trump memo to the press to prompt a special counsel investigation — Shortly after his dismissal as head of the FBI, James Comey authorized “a close friend” to leak the contents of his memos …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Al Jazeera Media Network says it is under cyberattack, following Tuesday's revelation that Russian hackers may have breached the Qatar state news agency — Al Jazeera Media Network was in the midst of a cyberattack on Thursday, Al Jazeera News said on Twitter.
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Kevin Ponniah / BBC:
Experts believe that the current diplomatic crisis in Qatar imperils Al Jazeera, which may not be closed but whose editorial policies could change — Qatar's Al Jazeera media network has undoubtedly put the tiny Gulf state on the international map. — It is the showpiece of the oil …
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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook now lets all Audience Network publishers insert ads under “Related Articles” at the bottom of Instant Articles — All publishers in Facebook's ad network can now feature ads within “Related Articles” sections at the bottom of their Instant Articles.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Interview with Audrey Cooper, editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, on changing newsroom culture: celebrating success and avoiding toxicity — This piece originally appeared in Local Edition, our newsletter following the digital transformation of local news. Want to be part of the conversation?
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Sources: Verizon will cut about 15% of AOL-Yahoo staff, or as many as 2.1K jobs, after merger closes — The proportion of jobs being made redundant across AOL and Yahoo is around 15 percent globally, we have confirmed with our sources. — This shakes out to as many as 2,100 jobs being lost as part of the corporate merger.
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Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:
Yahoo shareholders officially approve $4.48B sale to Verizon; deal will close on June 13th
Yahoo shareholders officially approve $4.48B sale to Verizon; deal will close on June 13th
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Rani Molla / Recode:
Cisco: online video is expected to triple bandwidth consumption in the next five years — What the internet will look like in 2021. — Video will make up 82 percent of all internet traffic in 2021, according to forecasts released today by Cisco, which sells networking equipment.
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David Cohen / Adweek:
TNT will stream drama series Claws on Twitter directly after its premier on June 11, the network's first-ever streaming of a basic cable drama — U.S. Twitter users will be able to access the stream and a curated timeline of related tweets via claws.twitter.com or @ClawsTNT
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Upbeat PR raises $1.5M to offer membership based PR service to clients, appropriate and targeted pitches to journalists — “Our goal has been to just start from the ground up: If you were to design a PR agency today, from a software engineer's perspective, how would you approach it?"
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Daniel Sieberg / Google:
Google is supporting an initiative, in partnership with the World Bank and Code For Africa, that aims to train 6K+ journalists in 12 African cities by Feb. 2018 — For journalists, recent advances in digital technology present compelling new opportunities to discover, tell and share stories …
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IOL, TechFinancials, @siebergd and @googlemaron
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Ahead of UK and German elections, Facebook's role in political advertising and misinformation falls under scrutiny — Lawrence Dodd lives in one of Britain's most fiercely fought voting districts, and has been peppered almost daily with ads from the country's major political parties on Facebook.
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