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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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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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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
Facebook exits from news after killing notions of the brand, authorship, business model; publishers should focus on products that directly impact their company — For Facebook, journalism has been a pain in the neck from day one. Now, bogged down with the insoluble problems of fake news and bad PR …
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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 …
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
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 has ordered Virgin Trains …
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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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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.
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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 …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief Lewis D'Vorkin, formerly of Forbes, brings in new hires and prepares for a newsroom reorganization — New hires from The New York Times and The Washington Post bring new faces to a news organization that has been in flux under Tronc management.
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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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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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.
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