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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
CNN and CBS News issue corrections in stories about an email sent to Trump Jr. about WikiLeaks docs; both orgs independently reported incorrect date — - CNN on Friday issued a major correction to a Trump-Russia story. — A Washington Post story may have nullified the bombshell of CNN's report that it corrected.
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TechCrunch:
Sources: Apple to acquire music recognition app Shazam; one source puts the deal at about $400M; Shazam's post-money valuation after its 2015 funding was $1.02B — As Spotify continues to inch towards a public listing, Apple is making a move of its own to step up its game in music services.
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Greg Evans / Deadline:
Charlie Sheen sues National Enquirer for defamation over a story claiming he raped a 13-year-old boy in 1986 — Charlie Sheen is suing the National Enquirer over the publication of a story claiming the then-19-year-old actor raped a 13-year-old Corey Haim when the two were filming 1986's Lucas.
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Hollywood Reporter, Page Six, Gossip Cop, TMZ.com, The A.V. Club, Variety and The Wrap
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox News updates headline and story saying Roy Moore's accuser “forged” yearbook inscription attributed to Moore to say she added “notes”; deletes related tweet — Fox News has updated a report that initially said a woman accusing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore …
Boston Herald:
GateHouse Media acquires Boston Herald's operational assets for an undisclosed amount; company to continue day-to-day operations as usual — Boston Herald Publisher Patrick J. Purcell announced today that the media company with its flagship Boston Herald tabloid has reached an agreement …
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Profile of Sreya Guha, a senior at a Palo Alto high school, who built Related Fact Checks website and Chrome plugin to help users find existing fact checks — Instead of pool days and part-time jobs, Sreya Guha spends her summers with lines and lines of code.
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@adrienneshih, @mantzarlis and @dpfunke
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Genies, which raised $15M at $100M+ valuation, launches its iOS app that uses lifelike personalized avatars to reenact news, had ~680,000 waitlisted to signup — “We plan on making Bitmoji obsolete,” says Akash Nigam, CEO of Genies. Bragging about beating one of the world's top apps …
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Programmatic ads for McDonald's, Lyft, and UPS appear alongside neo-Nazi radio shows on Stitcher and TuneIn; platforms challenged by task of policing content — Online radio looms large in white nationalism, and some advertisers unwittingly bought into it.
WBUR:
WBUR places On Point host Tom Ashbrook on leave over unspecified allegations, while an outside organization investigates — Yesterday, Boston University and WBUR received some allegations against Tom Ashbrook. Tom will be on leave from his duties at WBUR while an outside organization hired …
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Washington Post and BostonGlobe.com
TechCrunch:
Facebook debuts Sound Collection tool for inserting copyright-free music into Facebook and Instagram clips, starts camera loaner program for 360 video creators — The right soundtrack can make a boring video interesting. So after years of reported discussions with the record labels …
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facebook360.fb.com, The Next Web, Adweek, Tubefilter and Fidji Simo
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Music royalty tracker Kobalt acquires Songs Music Publishing for an estimated $160M; Songs expected to shut down with some execs moving to Kobalt — In a closely watched music deal, one upstart is buying another for the rights to a catalog of fresh pop hits like Lorde's “Royals” and the Weeknd's “Can't Feel My Face.”
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Bloomberg, Billboard, PR Newswire, Variety and Variety
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Membership Puzzle Project, a yearlong study of membership models like De Correspondent's, finds that members of a publication want it available to the public — Both last year and this one, Jay Rosen has watched a realization ripple across the media: Digital advertising alone isn't going to support strong newsrooms.
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