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Jon Passantino / BuzzFeed:
Source: CNNMoney executive editor Rich Barberi tells staff not to publish any content involving Russia before clearing with him and a CNN VP — The decision came after the network deleted and retracted a post on Friday. — CNN is imposing strict new publishing restrictions …
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Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:
CNN Deleted A Story Linking Trump And Russia, Then Issued A Retraction After Questions Were Raised — The story cited a single, unnamed source claiming that a Senate committee was investigating a Russian fund with connections to President Trump's transition team.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook courts talent agencies as it prepares to debut TV-quality shows by late summer with budgets of up to $3M/episode, as well as short-form videos — Facebook is talking to Hollywood studios and agencies about producing TV-quality shows with an eye toward launching original programming …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Uptime, YouTube's experimental app for watching videos with friends, opens to all — YouTube's experimental app Uptime, which lets you watch videos with friends while reacting and commenting, has now opened up to all users. The app was first launched in March of this year …
Sheila N. Dang / Reuters:
Time Inc. licences Fortune brand to Barclays for stock indexes based on Fortune 500 — Time Inc (TIME.N) said Monday it will license its Fortune brand for stock indexes based on the Fortune 500 in a new partnership with Barclays PLC (BARC.L) in an effort to diversify Time's revenue into the growing index-investing business.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Pandora founder and CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down, will likely stay until a replacement is found — The streaming music giant doesn't have a replacement for its founder lined up. — Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down as the streaming music company's leader …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Vimeo says it will not be launching the subscription video service it announced three years ago — Everyone wants to sell internet video subscriptions. Except Vimeo: IAC's video unit, which had announced it wanted to launch a subscription video product three years ago but never got one off the ground …
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Sources: Amazon wants to charge advertisers $2.8M for 30-second spots during the NFL games it will stream to its Prime customers this coming season — Amazon.com Inc is looking to charge advertisers $2.8 million for packages that include 30-second spots during the Thursday night National …
Alexis Sobel Fitts / Wired:
A look at some Alt-Right wiki sites, which were created as an alternative to Wikipedia and its perceived liberal bias — Vox Day thinks that Wikipedia is the worst. But the things that bug him aren't the typical complaints you'll hear about the crowd-sourced encyclopedia …
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
OMG Digital, the “BuzzFeed of Africa,” raises a seed round of $1.1M — OMG Digital, the Ghana-based media startup dubbed the “BuzzFeed of Africa,” announced today that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. Its main site, OMG Voice, already has versions for Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya …
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Behind “Killing Pavel”, a new documentary by an international team of reporters that investigated the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet in Ukraine last year — A police officer cordons off the area around the charred car of journalist Pavel Sheremet, after he was killed in a car bomb in Kiev on July 20, 2016.
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Inside Blankspot, a fully reader-backed reporting initiative to cover underreported stories in Sweden, started by journalist Martin Schibbye — The organisation has story-specific Facebook groups where the public can contribute their knowledge or follow journalists on reporting trips