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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Source: MTV News restructures to focus on short-form video, cutting about a dozen jobs as it shifts from long-form journalism, adding video staff — MTV News is being restructured with an eye toward creating more video and short-form content for a younger audience, Variety has learned.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Copy editors ask NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn to compromise on cuts, softening planned reduction of 109 editors to 50-55 — New York Times copy editors facing staff cuts or new jobs in a re-imagined editing system sent a letter to the newspaper's …
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Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Canada's top court rules that Google can be compelled by lower courts to remove search results worldwide, causing concern among civil liberties groups — The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against Google on Wednesday in a closely-watched intellectual property case over whether judges can apply …
Tony Romm / Recode:
White House confirms Trump nominated Brendan Carr, FCC general counsel and Pai ally, for FCC GOP slot; he named Jessica Rosenworcel for Democratic slot earlier — Carr is an ally of agency chairman Ajit Pai, and previously worked in the telecom industry. — (Update, 8:29 p.m. ET: The White House confirmed Carr's nomination.)
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media's Motherboard retracts two articles on Trump's animatronic presence at Disney Parks' Hall of Presidents, citing factual errors, questions on sourcing — NY Digital Editor @xpangler — Vice Media's Motherboard tech site has retracted two articles — supposedly revealing discord …
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Adi Joseph / USA Today:
Q&A with Yahoo NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, who is joining ESPN, on his new role, layoffs at the network, and more — Adrian Wojnarowski has 1.8 million followers on Twitter, yet the hard-core NBA fans who swarm to his breaking news reports may not know what he looks like.
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The UK government says it intends to call in the Competition and Markets Authority for a further six-month examination of Rupert Murdoch's Sky takeover bid — Culture secretary Karen Bradley announces decision after Ofcom warns of potential for Murdoch to ‘influence the overall news agenda’
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Kelsey Sutton / Mic:
Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist for The New York Times, has joined MSNBC and NBC as an on-air contributor — Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist from the New York Times, has joined MSNBC and NBC as an on-air contributor.
ProPublica:
Internal documents show how Facebook polices speech, at times unfairly punishing and censoring black users or those in disputed territories like Palestine — In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims.
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Analysis of EU's Google antitrust fine: digital monopoly definition and focus on promoting competition are good but punishing Google for being best is misguided — The European Commission levied a record €2.42 billion ($2.73 billion) fine on Google yesterday for having …
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Jeff Gerth / Columbia Journalism Review:
Divide between advertising department and the newsroom at NYT has been disintegrating slowly, a change which caused tensions between Abramson and CEO Thompson — The April 2 edition of the Sunday New York Times, where the paper features its best journalism, included a six-page special section …
Ali Breland / The Hill:
US Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. asks DoJ and FBI to look into fake comments filed to FCC site about net neutrality — The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wants the Department of Justice and the FBI to look into fake comments being filed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about net neutrality.
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