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Facebook let ad buyers target users interested in algorithmically generated anti-Semitic topics like “Jew hater”, then removed some topics after being contacted — Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you.
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Chantal Fernandez / The Business of Fashion:
Editor-in-chief of Condé Nast's Glamour, Cindi Leive, announces she's stepping down after 16 years, becoming fourth longtime magazine editor to leave in 2 weeks — After 16 years leading the women's title at Condé Nast, Leive is resigning at the end of the year.
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Financial Times:
News execs say Google plans to revise rule that hurt rank of paywalled news sites that did not offer “first click free”; Google says it has nothing to announce — Google is expected to end a policy that allows users to breach newspaper paywalls to read articles for free …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Leaked memo directs every federal government department or agency to hold one hour event on handling classified and unclassified information to prevent leaks — The top US national security official has directed government departments and agencies to warn employees across …
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Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
Sources: ESPN tried to keep Jemele Hill off air Wednesday after Twitter uproar, but cohost balked and fill-ins sought by producers refused; ESPN refutes claim — Her colleagues, including co-host Michael Smith, weren't having it. — At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders calls Jemele Hill's criticism of Trump a “fireable offense”; Hill later tweets her regrets, and ESPN says it accepts apology
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Comedy Central extends Trevor Noah's contract through 2022 and adds year-end specials for The Daily Show — The deal, which includes year-end specials featuring the host, will keep him on the Viacom-owned cable network through 2022. — Comedy Central is fully committing to Trevor Noah.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
New York Times reporter Mike Isaac is writing a book about Uber for W. W. Norton, due out in 2019 — Crazy ambition, betrayal, sex, deceit and naked power grabs all make for a page-turner. — The Uber story has crazy ambition, betrayal, sex, deceit, naked power grabs, and lots and lots and lots of money.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Survey: WAN-IFRA publishers get average of 7% of digital revenue via Facebook, with 25% getting no direct revenue; 69% say main goal of using FB is distribution — For years publishers have held onto the hope that all their investments in Facebook will, at some point, pay dividends when it comes to revenue.
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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Journalists, filmmaker, and others sue DHS, ICE, and border patrol for digital searches at border, saying First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated — Americans who say their phones and laptops were seized by US border agents filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts on Wednesday arguing …
The Annenberg Public Policy Center:
In open-ended question, 37% of US adults couldn't name any rights guaranteed by First Amendment; 39% support Congress stopping natsec reporting without gov't OK — Many Americans are poorly informed about basic constitutional provisions, according to a new national survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
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European Journalism Observatory:
Study of four UK print papers on four days shows men have over half of all bylines and photos for news, business, and comment sections — • ETHICS AND QUALITY, LATEST STORIES, NEWSROOM MANAGEMENT — National newspapers in the UK are mostly written by male journalists, even though women make up nearly half of the profession.
Jack Neff / Ad Age:
At a conference, P&G CBO Marc Pritchard calls on marketers and tech firms to reinvent digital ads, which average ~1.7 second view time, with focus on targeting — Marc Pritchard sees digital media players making progress on transparency and brand-safety, but the chief brand officer …
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