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2:50 AM ET, February 15, 2018

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The Intercept:
Leaked WikiLeaks chats from May 2015-Nov. 2017 of a direct-message Twitter group show anti-Clinton bias, misogyny, encouragement of trolling and fake accounts  —  On a Thursday afternoon in November 2015, a light snow was falling outside the windows of the Ecuadorian embassy in London …
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Chrome's default ad blocker goes live Thursday, removing ads on sites that repeatedly display pop-ups, autoplay video with sound, and other invasive ads  —  Chrome's built-in ad blocker will go live tomorrow.  It's the first time Google will automatically block some ads in Chrome …
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Leaked chat transcript from an NYT Slack channel shows staff concern over diversity efforts, prompted by tweet by opinion section's Bari Weiss on immigrants  —  According to one employee, diversity efforts at the publication “are nothing but lip service.”  —  In 2016, James Bennet left …
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
District court judge dismisses Playboy lawsuit against Boing Boing for linking to Playmate pictures on Imgur and YouTube, gives Playboy a chance to revise suit  —  The magazine sued over a Boing Boing post linking to “scans of every Playboy Playmate centerfold.”
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / ProPublica:
After FEC clarification in December that big political ads on Facebook require disclaimers, review of 300+ ads finds fewer than 40 complied with new rules  —  The Federal Election Commission said in December that big political ads on the social network need disclaimers.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reuters executives explain why they felt an imperative to publish a special report by jailed reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo in Myanmar  —  Alexandra Ellerbeck, North America program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, speaks at a kickoff event for CJR's new print issue in Toronto.
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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:   PEN America to grant Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the two Reuters reporters jailed after their investigation into the Inn Din massacre, the Freedom to Write Award
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube TV adds Turner networks including CNN and TBS, will raise monthly subscription price by $5 to $40/month for new customers from March 13  —  Internet TV ‘skinny bundle’ service also expands to more markets, will add NBA TV and MLB Network  —  The YouTube TV “skinny” …
John Lynch / Business Insider:
Barstool Sports radio host Patrick Connor apologizes after making sexually inappropriate comments about 17-year-old Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim on radio  —  - A Barstool Sports radio host apologized Wednesday for calling the 17-year-old US Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim a “hot piece of ass” in a SiriusXM radio appearance.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Vimeo rolls out tool to live stream on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Periscope simultaneously  —  Video platform Vimeo is today rolling out new features designed to simplify video distribution across social networks, including one tool that allows live video to be streamed to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and Periscope at the same time.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Report: Apple News is driving huge traffic to publishers, accounting for 50% of Vox.com's daily traffic at times, and has ~12 editorial staff in US  —  Apple News can yield a flood of traffic for news publishers, with the app accounting for as much as 50 to 60 percent of readership for some stories …
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Sources: key staff members of HuffPost UK, which has 45 editorial workers, are pushing to unionize with the National Union of Journalists
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
USA Today names Nicole Carroll, the editor of The Arizona Republic, as its new editor-in-chief
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David Faber / CNBC:
Sources: CBS CEO Les Moonves and Viacom CEO Bob Bakish met last Friday to discuss a deal to combine the two companies
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Washington Post:
The Washington Post is opening bureaus in Rome and Hong Kong and has named a second Mexico City-based correspondent, as its international audience increases
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Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
Sources: at a CNN town hall on Tuesday, Jeff Zucker was asked what his position on the network's digital staff unionizing is, says company hadn't considered it
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times says that The Daily podcast will expand to public radio in April, distributed by American Public Media
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down
 
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