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Graham Ruddick / The Guardian:
Facebook launches Online Civil Courage Initiative in UK to fight hate speech and extremist content, will train and support charities and anti-terror groups — Firm's Online Civil Courage Initiative, already launched in Germany and France, aims to help charities and NGOs identify and eliminate hate speach
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Facebook introduces Facebook Safety for Journalists, an initiative designed to help reporters protect their accounts and themselves on Facebook — By Catherine Cole, Journalism Partnerships, Facebook and Antigone Davis, Head of Global Safety, Facebook — As part of the Facebook Journalism …
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
CIA set up back channel to get missing journalist Austin Tice freed, but effort fizzled in April after Syria's nerve gas attack — WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Trump administration, national security officials began exploring ways to free Austin Tice, an American journalist …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Gabe Pressman, the senior correspondent for WNBC-TV, has died at 93; he was among the first local TV reporters in NYC, and believed by many to be the first — Gabe Pressman, the senior correspondent for WNBC-TV and the indefatigable dean of New York's television reporters, who chased breaking news …
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Lara O'Reilly / Wall Street Journal:
Reddit is rolling out video ads, redesigning its ad-buying platform, and partnering with media agencies to build self-service ad products — Reddit is rolling out video ads and improving its ad-buying platform — CANNES, France - While Snapchat had its Ferris wheel and Google and Facebook …
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Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Blog:
At VidCon, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announces 1.5B logged-in viewers visit YouTube each month, says YouTube TV will expand to 10 markets, and more — I just got off stage after a great conversation with Rhett and Link at VidCon, where we announced a number of exciting new updates.
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Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing:
Charles Harder, the lawyer in the Gawker-Hogan case, sues Gizmodo Media on behalf of Randall Busack of Pregame.com, for Deadspin story about sports betting site — Just over a year after Hulk Hogan was awarded $140 million in his lawsuit against Gawker (he eventually received a $31 million settlement …
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Bloomberg:
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson says the company is in “very advanced” discussions with Facebook about subscriptions — CEO Thomson says he discussed content value with Zuckerberg — News Corp. says talks focused on subscription mechanism — News Corp., publisher …
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Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter:
Facebook Is Launching A Standalone App Exclusively For Video Creators — Facebook is set to launch a standalone app for video creators later this year, the company's product director, Daniel Danker, announced during a presentation entitled The Future of Facebook Video this morning at VidCon.
Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:
Sources: The Chicago Sun-Times isn't interested in a $1 bid from a group led by Eisendrath because the bid will keep current owners liable for future expenses — Owners of the Chicago Sun-Times aren't interested in a $1 bid for the newspaper from a group led by former Ald.
New York Times:
The Wall Street Journal is conducting a review of hundreds of articles by foreign affairs correspondent Jay Solomon, who was fired on Wednesday — The Wall Street Journal is conducting a review of hundreds of articles by Jay Solomon, who was the paper's chief foreign affairs correspondent.
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Katrina Manson / Financial Times:
Group of Arab states tells Qatar to close state-owned Al Jazeera and all affiliated channels as part of a list of demands to be met in 10 days — Read next … Kuwait has passed on a list that gives Qatar 10 days to comply with a series of demands from the Arab states that cut ties with it more than two weeks ago.
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