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Facebook details progress with its Journalism Project after six months: 2.6K publishers met, new features and training for its products, more — Since launching the Facebook Journalism Project, we've met with 2,600 publishers around the globe to create a dialogue around how they use …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook begins disabling the ability to edit the headline, text, and images on link previews, with exceptions for original publishers — Until now, any Facebook Page that posted a link could change the headline, body text and image that appeared in the News Feed preview.
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Facebook Media, HuffPost, Engadget, Newsmax, Adweek and socialbarrel.com
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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Nieman Lab, New York Times, Journalism.co.uk, Media Matters for America, Ad Age, @hadas_gold, The Wrap, France 24, New York Magazine, The Hill, CBS New York, Business Insider, Slate, Axios, Talking New Media, @hadas_gold, Washington Post, Fortune, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Week, NPR, Politicus USA, Mother Jones, AOL and ABC News Public Relations
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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@riceid, @matthaber, @mlcalderone, @devinleonard, @timkarr, @felixgillette, @randalljudt and @brucebartlett
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, Adweek, Fast Company, CNNMoney, Washington Post, Variety, TechCrunch, Fortune, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, Recode, @cwarzel, Mashable, VentureBeat and BuzzFeed, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube TV expands to 10 new areas, including Washington, D.C., Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, up from its five launch metros — YouTube TV, Google's entry in the crowded market of live TV streaming services, is now available in ten more U.S. metros, the company announced this morning.
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The Wrap, 9to5Mac and 9to5Google, 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, Multichannel News, The Wrap, VentureBeat and Variety
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.
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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 …
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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@kristenhare, @jones_mattryan and Talking New Media
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
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg outlines his vision for short-form video with 10-minute episodes, called New TV, and how he's seeking at least $2B in investment — When Jeffrey Katzenberg touched down in Sun Valley, Idaho, last week, it extended a streak of appearances at the annual conference …
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CNBC, Tubefilter, MacRumors, Vanity Fair and 9to5Mac