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Fred Vogelstein / Wired:
Facebook's head of News Feed Adam Mosseri says the recently announced overhaul, designed to help people better connect, will result in less video appearing — Facebook on Thursday announced sweeping changes to the way it plans to manage the newsfeed, the front door to the service for its 2 billion monthly users.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Some Facebook ex-staffers think Twitter-inspired 2013 shift to display more news was a failed experiment, as time spent on FB has declined the past two years — When news broke on Thursday evening of Facebook's dramatic overhaul of its News Feed, the worlds of media and publishing erupted.
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New York Times, @mosseri, @mattmittenthal, @stevesi and @cwarzel
Felipe Villamor / New York Times:
Philippines government orders independent news site Rappler, which has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, to shut down — MANILA — The Philippines ordered the closing on Monday of an independent online news site that has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's administration …
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RAPPLER, RAPPLER, @natashya_g, @carloshconde, @jamelaaisha, @jerometaylor, Patricia Evangelista, TechCrunch, Franco Mabanta, @cesdrilon, The Drum and Committee to Protect …
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
Condé Nast to issue a code of conduct this month and stop working with photographers Bruce Weber and Mario Testino, who were accused of sexual harassment — Condé Nast, publisher of some of the glossiest magazines in the world, is changing the way it does business.
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New York Times, The Wrap, BBC, thecut, Vogue, Business Insider, @bevysmith, @zlistsibbley, PAPERMAG, @vabvox, @nomoreorg, @jowrotethis, @pagesix, @edwardsiddons, @rwitherspoon, @carocor5, @rswfire, @traceyspicer, @vogueaustralia, @alyssarosenberg, @buildastarpromo, Newser, @jodikantor, @dereonjean, @stevekopack, @katierosman, @matthewschneier, The Week, AOL, Cindy Gallop, Refinery29 and Fashionista
Katharine Viner / The Guardian:
The Guardian has redesigned its website and mobile apps to coincide with the launch of the newspaper's new tabloid format on Monday — oday, our newspaper is being printed in a new tabloid format for the first time, a decision we took seven months ago. We decided then that we also wanted …
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New York Times, The Canary, Press Gazette and @zoesqwilliams
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sir Richard Branson orders Virgin Trains to restock the Daily Mail, saying the decision to stop selling it amounted to censorship — Branson says decision was taken without his knowledge and company should not be seen to be ‘censoring’ or ‘moralising’ — Sir Richard Branson …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
While most media handled the use of “shithole” with professionalism, fewer were successful in exploring the racist thinking behind it — From Harry Truman's “dumb son of a b— " assessment of General Douglas MacArthur to Richard B. Cheney's rude suggestion about what Sen. Patrick J. Leahy …
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Media Matters for America
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Profile of Zig, an Instagram-like news app which has attracted investors including ex-Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter and music producer Quincy Jones — Graydon Carter, the former editor of Vanity Fair, was preparing coq au vin in Provence, France, the other day when he picked up a telephone call from back home.
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Google says bugs, not partisanship, responsible for it wrongly appending a “Reviewed Claims” fact check to right-leaning news site The Daily Caller — This week's furor online over the alleged left-wing bias of Google's fact-checking tags missed the point.
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The Daily Caller, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo and The Daily Caller
Todd Spangler / Variety:
The Young Turks Network Hires Deanna Brown as President — Deanna Brown, a 30-year media and digital-content veteran, has joined TYT Network as the company's first president. — Brown, along with TYT Network founder and CEO Cenk Uygur, will lead the strategic direction for all business initiatives …
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Tubefilter
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
NPR and Edison Research survey: 16% of Americans own a smart speaker today, up 128% YoY; 30% of owners say smart speakers are replacing time spent with TV — One in six Americans now own a smart speaker, according to new research out this week from NPR and Edison Research - a figure that's up 128 percent from January, 2017.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Daily Beast reporter Lizzie Crocker resigned from the site this weekend, following revelations she plagiarized a column in the Weekly Standard — Daily Beast reporter Lizzie Crocker resigned from the company this weekend after allegations of plagiarism against her were confirmed by the publication, TheWrap has learned.
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The Daily Caller, The Guardian and The Daily Beast
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