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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
In sweeping masthead shakeup, media veteran Ross Levinsohn named publisher and CEO of the LA Times, as Jim Kirk of the Chicago Sun-Times becomes interim editor — In a dramatic shakeup at the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago-based parent company has installed new leadership and plans to invest …
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John Herrman / New York Times:
After wave of neo-Nazi bans, tech firms' censorship policies were shown again to be arbitrary, not derived from moral awakening or newfound sense of civic duty — White supremacist marchers had not yet lit their torches when the deletions began. The “Unite the Right” Facebook page …
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BBC:
Copenhagen police say a woman's headless torso has been found in the search for missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall; it has been sent for forensic analysis — A woman's headless torso has been found by police searching for a Swedish journalist who went missing during a trip with a submarine inventor.
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
BBC World Service to launch 12 new language services as part of its biggest expansion since the 1940s, with the first launching today in West Africa — The BBC World Service has today launched the first of 12 new language services as part of its biggest expansion since the 1940s, backed by £289m in Government funding.
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Nieman Lab and @niemanlab
Yuyu Chen / Digiday:
Sources: the current rise in political tensions is leading brands to avoid advertising on mainstream news sites, with some avoiding Fox News in particular — Political tensions have reached a point where some brands are perceiving mainstream news outlets as too controversial, leading media buyers to pull ads from those sites.
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@steverubel and Mediaite
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify's plan to skip a traditional IPO and list directly on NYSE draws scrutiny from the SEC, as NYSE's direct listing rule-change is still pending — Direct-listing plan is said to draw scrutiny from regulators — New York Stock Exchange rule-change proposal still pending
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@lucas_shaw, VentureBeat, The Hill, @alistairmbarr, RAIN News and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Gaby Del Valle / The Outline:
Behind the collapse of Fresco News, a news startup backed by Ashton Kutcher, which laid off all 40 employees in June — When the money runs out — On June 21, three dozen of Fresco News's 40 employees gathered in the company's cramped Manhattan office for a visit from a special guest: one of Fresco's investors, Ashton Kutcher.
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@mccarthyryanj, @gabydvj, @joshuatopolsky, @benmullin and @thebinarium
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
CNN announces it will launch The Update, a daily Snapchat news show at 6PM ET, one month after NBC debuted its twice-daily news program — The Update debuts a month after NBC News rolled out its own twice-daily program — Just one month ago, there weren't any daily news shows on Snapchat.
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Recode, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Ad Age, TechCrunch, TVNewser, Mashable, CNN and Fortune
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Breitbart has apologized, after it used a photo of a famous German soccer player on an AFP story about a gang ferrying immigrants to Spain on jet skis — Breitbart News apologized Sunday after using an image of soccer star Lukas Podolski to illustrate a story about migrants traveling to Spain on jet skis.
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Agence France-Presse, @anupkaphle, iMediaEthics and Slate
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
A draft of the New York Times editorial that triggered a lawsuit from Sarah Palin didn't include language blaming her PAC for “political incitement” — A draft of the New York Times editorial that triggered a lawsuit from Sarah Palin didn't include language blaming …
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@erikwemple
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A profile of Girls Night In, an online publication with a newsletter boasting 12K+ subscribers, which aims to connect women online and through events — “We are helping serve the need for women to take a break, relax, and recharge.” — Women (especially the more introverted among us) …
James Warren / Poynter:
Samsung's Bixby launches in more than 200 countries including the UK, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, is currently available in US English and Korean — Amy Lambrecht, publisher of The American Prospect, faces a tough challenge every day: How can she make her magazine stand …
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