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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Wenner Media has hired bankers to explore sale of its controlling interest in Rolling Stone; both Jann and Gus Wenner hope to stay on at the magazine — From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers.
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Financial Times, Variety, @rafat, @daweiner and Consequence of Sound
Lee Rainie / Pew Research Center:
Pew survey: 61% of people ages 18-29 say they primarily watch TV via streaming services; 31% say they mostly watch via cable or satellite subscription — The rise of online streaming services such as Netflix and HBO Go has dramatically altered the media habits of Americans, especially young adults.
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Business Insider
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Hatem El-Gamasy, a NYC bodega owner, has appeared frequently on Egyptian TV since he wrote an article predicting Trump's win, which was spotted by producers — Hatem El-Gamasy often appears as a pundit for Egyptian television news programs. His viewers don't know his day job: He owns a bodega in Queens.
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@mlcalderone
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Snap says it has complied with Saudi Arabia's request to block access to Al Jazeera content, including articles and videos, for users in the country — Snap said it is following a request from the Saudi government; Al Jazeera calls move an ‘attempt to silence freedom of expression’
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
UK press regulator IPSO forces The Mail on Sunday to acknowledge that an article about NOAA climate change research was inaccurate and misleading — A self-policing group within the British news industry has forced the tabloid The Mail on Sunday to acknowledge that an article it published asserting …
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Daily Mail, @williamjordann, @richardabetts, @remikalir, @jswatz and The Guardian
Craig Marks / Vulture:
Profile of Spotify's Tuma Basa, who runs its 50-song RapCaviar playlist, followed by 7.67M+ users, on how he finds music, the playlist's influence, more — In this, the year hip-hop won the music business, one of its defining hits was released more or less by mistake.
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details — What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run …
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New York Times, The Wrap, @brianstelter and Vanity Fair, more at Techmeme »
David Folkenflik / Analysis : NPR:
Lessons from Seth Rich story, 4 months after Fox retracted it with no explanation: investigations must be ironclad, don't lead witnesses, transparency matters — On Monday, lawyers for Fox News must submit court filings addressing how the network mishandled a story about the unsolved killing …
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@npr, @npr, @mrjoshuabowling, @silverandsuch, @johnmcquaid, @jayrosen_nyu and @davidfolkenflik
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple says Safari's upcoming “Intelligent Tracking Prevention”, criticized by ad groups, will only block re-targeting, allow cookies from visited sites, more — Apple introduced a new technology to intelligently block browser cookies in Safari, which brought criticism from a number of advertising organizations.
Andrew Zaleski / Wired:
Profile of VidAngel's Neal Harmon, whose streaming service is in a legal fight against studios over the right to filter offensive content from movies, TV shows — On June 9 of last year, a private investigator visited Neal Harmon in his Provo, Utah office with unwelcome news: Disney …