Mediagazer: Sources: YouTube plans to create Intelligence Desk to seek out inappropriate content using Google data, user reports, social media trends, outside consultants (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed)

4:50 PM ET, January 19, 2018

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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:

Los Angeles Times employees vote 248 to 44 in favor of joining NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America union — A day before the vote, senior editors had made a last-ditch effort to quash the unionizing campaign. — Los Angeles Times staffers have voted to unionize …

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Sarah Rabil / Wall Street Journal:

Ross Levinsohn, publisher and CEO of LAT, to take an unpaid leave of absence as Tronc hires outside law firm investigate allegations of misconduct — Parent Tronc has hired outside law firm to investigate allegations of misconduct — Ross Levinsohn, the publisher and chief executive …

Discussion: @haileybranson and Ad Age

David Folkenflik / NPR:
LA Times CEO Ross Levinsohn has been defendant in 2 sexual harassment suits, and colleagues questioned his conduct over 2 decades; Tronc says it's investigating

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Alex Heath / Cheddar:

Leaked Snap memo to staff threatens them with termination, financial liability, and even jail time if they leak confidential information about the company — Snap Inc. has a simple message to its employees: leak information and you could be sued or even jailed.

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Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Sources: Snap laid off about 24 people across 8 teams, mostly in the content unit that curates users' videos; some staff were asked to relocate to Los Angeles

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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Sources: YouTube plans to create Intelligence Desk to seek out inappropriate content using Google data, user reports, social media trends, outside consultants — YouTube is planning to proactively seek out and police inappropriate or offensive content following public backlash …

Discussion: Business Insider and 9to5Google

Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
YouTube's change to Partner Program rules, favoring highly viewed channels, causes backlash among its community, with many smaller channels feeling penalized

Discussion: Techdirt, Business Insider and Marketing Week, more at Techmeme »

Daniel Funke / Poynter:

Google suspends Reviewed Claims fact-checking feature after criticism from conservative news outlets over erroneous link debunking a Daily Caller story — Google is suspending a search feature that displayed fact checks associated to publishers after receiving criticism from conservative news outlets.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

Vice worked to address its culture problem ahead of NYT article in order to protect its image as a maturing brand and its somewhat improbable $5.7B valuation — After months of rumormongering and speculation, Shane Smith's media empire seems to be surviving a highly anticipated Times story by reforming its culture—and publicizing it.

Discussion: @vanityfair, @raju and @vanityfair

Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica:

Twitch debuts Video Producer that lets creators pre-record, post-produce, rerun videos; brings in four of YouTube's popular gamers to create exclusive content — Four of YouTube's most popular gamers will produce “exclusive” Twitch content. — The Amazon-owned video site Twitch announced it's introducing …

Discussion: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, VideoInk, Engadget, VentureBeat and Variety, more at Techmeme »

Boing Boing:

Boing Boing and EFF file a motion to dismiss Playboy lawsuit that would set a dangerous precedent by making publications liable for linked content — A few weeks ago we were shocked to learn that Playboy had, without notifying us, sued us over this post (we learned about it when a journalist DM'ed us on Twitter to ask about it).

Discussion: Fast Company, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Hit & Run, Techdirt and TorrentFreak, more at Techmeme »

Paul Mozur / New York Times:

Sources: Facebook's lead liaison with Beijing, Wang-Li Moser, resigned in December after a three-year tenure in a fresh setback to its China charm campaign — HONG KONG — The executive in charge of Facebook's efforts to court China has left the company, a fresh setback for the social network …

Discussion: @michaelschuman, @paulmozur and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »

Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:

At Slate, podcasting has gone from zero to 25% of its revenue since 2014; Slate could become “a podcast publisher with a significant written web engine” — Plus: WBEZ tries to turn a podcast into a franchise, Science Friday joins WNYC Studios, and Gimlet opens up the HBO playbook.

Discussion: Digiday and Slate

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