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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Reuters report: ad blocking growth stalls, 18% of 18-24-year-olds in US pay for online news, 33% of same age globally use social media as their main news source — The Reuters Institute's annual report on digital news contains some surprises. — The United States recently elected an unusual president.
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MediaShift, Nieman Lab, Sputnik International, @kreissdaniel, @shansquared, @shansquared, @newsbyschmidt, @dskok, @niemanlab and @nbj914
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republican coal baron Robert Murray is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight — A Republican coal baron is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
A civil case from Murray Energy in a New York appeals court is testing whether the state's shield law protects small, subscriber-based news organizations
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Boing Boing, @nytmetro, @aclaudecase, @johnastoehr, @marlownyc, @noahshachtman, Talking Biz News and Associated Press
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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Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, @shiraovide, Variety and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »
Emily Peck / HuffPost:
An internal email from 6 female WSJ reporters reveals growing frustration with how the paper's leadership has addressed the gender pay gap and racial diversity — An internal email obtained by HuffPost reveals growing unrest. — The Wall Street Journal's staff is about as diverse …
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@jdelreal, @emilyrpeck and @huffpostmedia
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO — As Spotify inches its way to a public listing, the streaming music company — which now has 140 million users — has made some significant changes to its board of directors.
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breakit.se, Billboard, Business Insider, RAIN News, Variety and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Sources: conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt will host a live half-hour show on MSNBC, airing Saturdays at 8am and beginning this week — MSNBC is expanding weekend news with live programming until 9 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday nights, TVNewser has learned. — As part of the expansion …
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Forbes, Media Matters for America, @hadas_gold, @richardgrenell, Mediaite, @benwikler, @jbouie, @owillis, @igorbobic, @hadas_gold, @kelseymsutton, @alexweprin and Inside Cable News
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Tesla is talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service that would be bundled with its cars — Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others? Good question. — Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file …
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Forbes, Variety, @tconrad, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, RAIN News, Electrek, hypebot, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, MacRumors and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge eyes Atlanta's Cox Communications as acquisition target, but Cox has long said it's not interested in a sale — The upcoming season for cable TV could see yet another merger. — Charter Communications — the nationwide cable giant whose …
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BGR, Consumerist and TVWeek.com
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
The Washington Post launches ModBot, a proprietary tool that uses machine learning to moderate comments — The Washington Post has launched ModBot, a software application that utilizes artificial intelligence to moderate comments. The proprietary technology uses machine learning …
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Journalism.co.uk and @gjbarb
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
The gunman motivated by the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, Edgar Maddison Welch, gets four years in prison — The North Carolina man who commandeered a pizza restaurant at gunpoint in Northwest Washington to investigate a false Internet rumor of a pedophile ring there was sentenced to four years in in prison Thursday.
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BuzzFeed, @apsouthregion, AP News, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and vice
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump has left the WH communications director job open since mid-May, when Michael Dubke resigned, suggesting he wants the job for himself to control messaging — He wants to be communications director. — Trump doesn't really want to be president. If he did, he'd nominate candidates …
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@timothynoah1, @jackshafer, @lindseyadler, @nickgillespie and @dcakraemer
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Knight Prototype Fund awards $1M to projects aimed at fighting misinformation, including a mobile game that tracks falsehoods and a media literacy program — A mobile game that tracks falsehoods, a tool that busts lie-spewing internet bots and projects aimed at increasing the reach …
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Nieman Lab, @janeeliz, @azi, @madalinacrc, @davisshaver and @erika_check
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