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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
FAA says it will offer “instant authorization” for drone flights for journalists and others near 50 airports by the end of year, mostly at quieter sites — Drone journalists just got some very good news. The FAA says that this year it will begin offering “instant authorization” for drone flights in controlled airspace.
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Axios, Forbes, @mattwaite and @mattgrosack
Felix Gillette / Bloomberg:
Profile of Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose low production values and politically conservative agenda are clashing with local newsrooms as the network expands — In the menagerie of television talking heads who have come to prominence advocating for Donald Trump, Boris Epshteyn is hardly the most memorable.
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@brucebartlett, @devinleonard, @riceid, @matthaber, @mlcalderone, @timkarr, @felixgillette and @randalljudt
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Local TV affiliates convened with the WH on Tuesday as part of a relationship building meeting and to discuss how to book WH officials — PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAT DOWN FOR AN EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE ‘FAILING NEW YORK TIMES’ — his second interview with them in just over a month.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
A look at CNN Talk, a weekly half-hour politics chat show streamed on Facebook Live and TV simultaneously — Since May 5, CNN International has produced “CNN Talk,” a half-hour politics chat show streamed on Facebook Live and TV simultaneously at noon London time each Friday.
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Facebook launches tool that lets publishers compare Instant Articles traffic to traditional links that point to mobile pages — Facebook today released a new developer's tool for publishers to see how their stories are doing on the social media platform. — The analytics tool …
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Facebook Media, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, @rafat, Facebook for Developers, Digiday and TheStreet
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu adds 3,000 drama and comedy shows including How I Met Your Mother, M*A*S*H, Glee, and NYPD Blue, expanding its deal with 20th Century Fox — Hulu and 20th Century Fox Television Distribution announced an massive new agreement that will add nearly 3,000 episodes from 26 recent …
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Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch, Home Media Magazine, @willmckinley, @deggans, Hulu, Deadline, Adweek and The Verge
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New research finds people struggle to detect fake images and pinpoint where they've been manipulated — I recently, shamefully fell for a photo plastered all over my timeline last week of Vladimir Putin sitting in a chair at G-20 as other world leaders, including Donald Trump …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter says it's taking action against 10x the number of accounts it did a year ago, and that majority of disciplined accounts don't commit a second infraction — But real data is in short supply — A sustained push to reduce abuse on Twitter has shown promising results, the company said …
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Twitter, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, @cwarzel, Recode, Mashable, VentureBeat and BuzzFeed, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Vimeo promotes Anjali Sud, who has been the video company's general manager, to CEO — Anjali Sud gets a promotion; Joey Levin goes back to running IAC full time. — Vimeo has a new boss, after going more than a year without a full-time leader. — Parent company IAC has promoted Anjali Sud …
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TechCrunch, The Wrap, VentureBeat and Variety
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The Knoxville Mercury, a Tennessee alt-weekly, is closing just two years after its launch — Staff at the Knoxville (Tennessee) Mercury went back and forth on how depressing their final issue should be. — The two-year-old publication distributed its last edition on Thursday.
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Talking New Media, @jones_mattryan and @kristenhare
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
A look inside NBC News new twice-daily news show on Snapchat, “Stay Tuned”, which is aimed at younger viewers who no longer watch traditional TV — NBC News is bringing news broadcasts to Snapchat, the company announced today, with the launch of a twice-daily headline news show it's calling “Stay Tuned.”
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Nieman Lab, Ubergizmo, @kurtwagner8, Axios, Engadget, Fortune and Refinery29
Phil Howard / The Computational Propaganda Project:
28-country study including democracies and autocracies finds that gov'ts and political parties spend greatly on manipulating public opinion over social media — Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media.
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