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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Glenn Beck announces layoffs for 20% of staff at TheBlaze and Mercury Radio Arts; source estimates number at about 50 — The host announced that 20 percent of his staff was dismissed on Thursday. — Despite an uptick of interest in political news and the ascendant trajectory …
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TheBlaze, Mediaite, Washington Times, @betsyscribeindc, The Daily Caller, IJR and @oliverdarcy
Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
Profile of Elaine Welteroth, EIC of Teen Vogue, which is monetizing its progressiveness with a coming TV integration, a reader convention, a line of merchandise — The editor in chief has taken on a seemingly impossible task: reinventing the glossy magazine for a hyperempathetic generation.
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@taffyakner, Jezebel, @jakesilverstein, @hezelanna, @nicoleblades, @susandominus, @ellieshechet and @dstfelix
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Lifezette has become an uncomfortable place for women to work, with CEO Peter Anthony often making sexually suggestive comments about female staffers — LifeZette, the politics and culture website founded by prominent ally of President Donald Trump and longtime talk radio host Laura Ingraham, is in trouble.
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@justinjm1, The Wrap, @mattgertz, @clarajeffery, @nycjim, @joshtpm, The Daily Caller, @brianbeutler, Mediaite, @clare_oc, @noahshachtman, @lachlan, @noahshachtman, @evepeyser, @joshsternberg, @noahshachtman and @marlownyc
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The appointment of neoconservative journalist Bari Weiss to The New York Times' op-ed team reinforces the paper's lack of viewpoint diversity — Controversy erupted on April 14 over the New York Times' hiring of neoconservative climate-skeptic and anti-Arab polemicist Bret Stephens …
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@mariabustillos, @theintercept, @alexbkane, @jkirchick, @ggreenwald and Jezebel
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How The Houston Chronicle's ~200 journalists are covering Harvey, reporting from home, jogging to work, wading through water, filing from a stranded car, more — Albert Gonzalez tugged a pallet piled with newspapers through a maze of donated clothes, pillows and blankets on Tuesday.
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@mercpurdy, @cshalby, @benbartenstein, @poynter, @ben_brasch, @johnastoehr, @reporterlknake, @dsilverman, @lydiadepillis, @lizentman, @votreami, @andy_ed_brown, @kristenhare and @benmullin
Natt Garun / The Verge:
Instagram rolls out Stories to desktop and mobile web starting today, with ability to upload from mobile web coming in next few months — Mobile web upload is coming soon — Instagram is adding the ability for you to view Stories on desktop and mobile web so you can see the ephemeral posts on larger screens.
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TechCrunch, Fast Company, SlashGear, BuzzFeed and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Alison Weissbrot / AdExchanger:
HowStuffWorks is spinning off from parent company System1 as an independent podcast network with a $15M Series A investment from The Raine Group — Digital media publisher HowStuffWorks is spinning out from parent company System1 as an independent podcast network with a $15 million Series …
Discussion:
Recode
DFRLab:
After documenting botnet attack on ProPublica, DFR Lab faced its own attack from bots and impersonators, including one tweet saying DFR staffer had died — Twitter bots unleashed in a social media disruption tactic — Overnight from August 28 to August 29, a major Twitter botnet opened …
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Forbes, Krebs on Security, @sieverts, @jonathanstray, @grahambrookie and @maksczuperski, more at Techmeme »
Michael Blanding / Nieman Reports:
How some news outlets are covering climate change well, amid a dearth of coverage from networks, uneven newspaper coverage, and issues with false balance — A look at news outlets bringing innovation, urgency and new audiences to stories on climate change — The assignment was simple …
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@niemanfdn, @benswasey, @benswasey and @niemanreports
Al Jazeera English:
Al Jazeera English disables comments on its website, finds social media to be the preferred platform for online debate — Today, we disabled the ability to comment on stories on aljazeera.com. It's a decision that we've given much thought to, and one that we feel ultimately best serves our audience.
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Al Jazeera English and Press Gazette
Max Willens / Digiday:
Gannett plans to throw more than 500 events this year and in the past two years has doubled the size of its events strategy group — To grow its events business, Gannett is thinking nationally and acting locally. — After years of letting its individual newspapers handle events on their own …
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@jcstearns
Casey Newton / The Verge:
How YouTube started using Google Brain's AI to improve video recommendations in 2015, which now drive 70% of videos' watch time — Google Brain gave YouTube new life — Sometime late last year, as I was playing a video game named Dishonored 2, I did a routine YouTube search about how to beat a tricky section of the game.
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