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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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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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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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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Sources: Bloomberg News lays off about a half-dozen employees amid newsroom reorganization — Bloomberg News has reorganized a part of the newsroom into a “breaking news” team to handle first versions and first 15 mins of breaking news, mainly to focus an expanded breaking news team to catch and break news faster.

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

White House-press relations turn toxic as communications team tries to hire more staff and President Trump berates media in public, schmoozes in private — Five months into Donald Trump's presidency, White House-media relations are hanging by a thread. — The White House is facing daily criticism …

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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Journalists condemn White House ban on video at press briefing as WHCA President Jeff Mason says the group is working on the issue

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The Guardian:

King's College hospital withdraws complaint alleging that a Sun reporter impersonated the friend of a Grenfell Tower victim to get an interview — Sun apologises for not following media protocol and King's College accepts journalist did not impersonate friend

Stephanie Strom / New York Times:

Food & Wine is relocating to Birmingham, Alabama, where Time Inc.'s test kitchens are located; Hunter Lewis, the editor of Cooking Light, will become EIC — Food & Wine, the glossy, chef-focused food magazine, is moving to Birmingham, Ala., joining a stable of other publications owned …

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