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Kelly Fiveash / Ars Technica UK:
UK government announces that porn websites will have to verify UK users are aged 18+ by April 2018; users may be asked to verify with credit card details — UK gov't brings in online porn watchdog to police site operators and force compliance. — The wobbly, squabbling, minority Tory government …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Politico Pro has 20K subscribers and generates 50% of the site's annual revenue — On Monday, Politico is expected to announce a series of updates and a new product for Politico Pro, its subscription service, including a legislation compass that tracks the progress of bills making …
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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Snapchat launches its Snap Publisher self-serve ad creation tool, which can convert horizontal videos and websites into vertical video ads — Snap Publisher enables brands to edit a horizontal video into a vertical one or to have have Snapchat's computer vision technology do the work.
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Variety, Business Insider, Tamebay, socialbarrel.com, Tubefilter, Business Insider and The Drum
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
US intel officials say UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatar News Agency and social media sites in late May to plant false statements, sparking regional crisis — The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed …
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Reuters, The Guardian, Motherboard, The Daily Caller, Forbes, France 24, Mother Jones, The Week, @emptywheel and @nawafalthani
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity joins TYT Network, whose flagship show is The Young Turks, as head of programming — TYT Network, the online politics and entertainment news network, has hired Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity head of programming.
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Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Tubefilter and @matchity
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $2.79B, vs. $2.76B expected, and total streaming subs grew 5.2M to 104M, vs. 3.2M expected; stock up 10%+ — Netflix added 5.2 million overall streaming subscribers in the second quarter of 2017, dramatically beating investor expectations for both U.S. and international growth.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Reuters, Fortune, Ad Age and Recode, more at Techmeme »
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed:
Not all Republican lawmakers like Trump's fracas with the press, with some saying it is distracting from coverage of key issues like tax reform — “I love the media,” said the Freedom Caucus chairman. — Reporting From Washington, DC … You've read a lot about the Republican war on what Donald Trump calls fake news.
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Mediaite, The Washington Journal, @alexis_levinson and @katherinemiller
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
OMGDigital, a 7-year-old media company for African youth, boasts over 90M monthly views and has raised $1.1M from Kima Ventures, Soma Capital, others — “In the West, Cracked, BuzzFeed, and Mashable had really picked up steam. We couldn't relate to the contents; we didn't get the jokes.
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
ABC News launches The Briefing Room, a live digital program focusing on White House press briefings and political reporting from DC — ABC News is launching The Briefing Room today, a new, live digital program focusing on “White House press briefings and the latest political reporting from Washington …
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ABC News Public Relations, @rickklein and Broadcasting & Cable
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Streaming service fuboTV says it is adding Fusion TV to its entry-level fubo Premier bundle — Univision channel is part of $34.99 tier — Streaming service fuboTV said it was adding Fusion TV to its entry-level fubo Premier bundle. — Fubo, which emphasizes sports programming …
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Press Association EIC Peter Clifton says the news org is not replacing reporters with robots, after being awarded near $1M to develop an automated news project — Press Association editor-in-chief Peter Clifton has said he is “certainly not replacing reporters with robots” …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Gannett's local news teams are helping USA Today expand the frequency and scale of its VR projects by collaborating on pieces, writing companion articles, more — “We have to remember that not only we as content creators are new to VR, but so is our audience. For a lot of people, it's still very experiential."
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