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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney is prepping budget cuts of 10% in Disney/ABC Television Group, including job reductions of up to 300, at ABC News, local TV stations, more — As many as 300 jobs could be cut in aim to reach 10% reduction in costs — Walt Disney Co. is preparing significant budget cuts …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Facebook-funded shows begin rolling out this week on Watch, as publishers including Business Insider, Tastemade, Refinery29, and Nat Geo debut original content — Facebook's latest attempt to take on YouTube begins in earnest this week as various publishers begin to roll out Facebook-funded shows on the platform.
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Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
UN human rights chief rebukes Trump's repeated verbal attacks on some media outlets and journalists, says the claims could amount to incitement — GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday that President Trump's repeated denunciations of some media outlets as …
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Reuters, @glennkesslerwp, @phelimkine, @whca, Washington Post and Mediaite
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Medium founder Ev WIlliams on the platform's pivot away from advertising and how its new reader-powered business model will work — “What we want to do is create the best possible place to support great content. How does the best media in the world work?
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@niemanlab, Wired, @felixsalmon, @ia and @raju
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Freedom Forum spent too much on the symbolic $450M Newseum rather than on supporting journalism — You know that triumphant feeling that sweeps from your brain to your toes when one of your enemies stumbles and falls into a mass of his own excrement? Such delight overwhelmed me yesterday …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Ben Jacobs, the Guardian reporter assaulted by congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, says Gianforte is refusing a promised on-the-record interview — Reporter recounts fight with GOP candidate — Ben Jacobs, the reporter who was assaulted by Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte …
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@bencjacobs, Washington Post, Real Stories, USA Today, @mattnegrin, @dangillmor, New York Magazine, Business Insider, @sahilkapur, @cernovich, Mediaite and @sahilkapur
Mike DeNardo / CBS Philly:
Philly.com to limit free stories to 10/month starting 9/5; print subscribers can get digital access for $0.25-$0.30/week, with digital-only subs at $3/week — PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Starting next week, there will be a limit to the free stories you can read on Philly.com.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Scottish blogger Jason Michael McCann, who calls himself a journalist in his Twitter bio, defends his viral hoax tweet showing a shark in Houston's flood waters — “Of course I knew it was fake, it was part of the reason I shared the bloomin' thing.” — It was just before 6 a.m. in Dublin …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Publishers are letting writers go as they turn to video and try to replicate success of Vice, which is said to be valued at $5.7B or twice that of the NYT — Digital media churns out videos for tech and media giants — Adults to spend 81 minutes a day on digital video: eMarketer
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Digital Content Next, Forbes, @michaelmossc and @jackmarshall
The Guardian:
Over 21M comments have been submitted to FCC on its proposed neutrality roll-back as it closes submissions, although many are duplicates or created by spambots — The FCC has received nearly 22m comments on “Restoring Internet Freedom” with just hours left before the window for public feedback closes on Wednesday
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Caroline Scott / Journalism.co.uk:
How Vox used crowdsourcing to help plan its new six-part Borders documentary series, coming this fall, with audience suggesting locations, activities, more — Vox reporter Johnny Harris has created and maintained a dialogue with his audience as he travels around the world
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@carolinescott91 and @storybench
Shane Bauer / Mother Jones:
News outlets erred in Berkeley protest coverage by focusing on scattered violence, ignoring bigger story that Bay Area has become targeted by far-right groups — The violence I saw was only part of the story. — Over the weekend, thousands of people hit the streets of San Francisco and Berkeley …
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