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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google details how Chrome's optional ad blocking, which goes live tomorrow, will work: which kinds of ads will trigger it, how Chrome will notify users, more — Chrome's built-in ad blocker will go live tomorrow. It's the first time Google will automatically block some ads in Chrome …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix signs five-year exclusive contract with Ryan Murphy, creator of American Horror Story and Glee; sources say deal is worth as much as $300M — The streaming giant Netflix has won yet another battle against old Hollywood. — On Tuesday night, Netflix announced that it had poached …
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HuffPost:
James Bennet, NYT editorial page editor, says Quinn Norton will not join editorial board after her prior tweets with slurs emerge following hiring announcement — Quinn Norton has tweeted that she's friends with neo-Nazis, and has used slurs on a regular basis.
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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.
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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” …
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BuzzFeed:
At a meeting of trade group Digital Content Next, which includes NYT, Vox Media, and News Corp, publishers weighed supporting regulation of Facebook and Google — At a trade group meeting last week, one media executive likened Facebook to Big Tobacco. — Media executives have for years …
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Experts say Trump's threats of a legal assault on media may actualize, and although big media has resources to mount defenses, smaller pubs may be unprepared — Trump so far has failed to follow through on his promised press assault. Could it still come? — 1743 WORDS
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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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: AT&T and Time Warner's list of people to call upon as witnesses in forthcoming trial with DoJ includes antitrust chief Makan Delrahim — Company lays the groundwork to challenge the legitimacy of government's antitrust suit — WASHINGTON— AT&T Inc. T -.56% is considering …
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Mike Shields / Business Insider:
NBC is using the Olympics to push its new metric for measuring reach, Total Audience Delivery (TAD), which accounts for viewers outside of live TV — - NBCUniversal is using the Olympics to tout its custom Total Audience Delivery metric as an alternative to the classic Nielsen ratings.
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New York Times, @digitalshields, Ad Age and Hit & Run
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 — For more than two months, the Burmese government has held two Reuters reporters in prison for their investigation into a massacre by the country's military.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
USA Today names Nicole Carroll, the editor of The Arizona Republic, as its new editor-in-chief — Nicole Carroll, a veteran of the Arizona Republic, was named editor in chief of USA Today, a signal that emphasizes the national broadsheet's emerging function as a provider …
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WWD, Adweek and Arizona Republic
Politico:
Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward quoted a column endorsing her and criticizing her opponents from a fake news site, the Arizona Monitor — Political-messaging sites mimic names of independent news organizations to help GOP candidates around the country.
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