Mediagazer: Interview with Lisa Tozzi, global news director at BuzzFeed News, about curating breaking news, headline writing, and advice for journalism students (Andy Bechtel/The Editor's Desk)

9:20 AM ET, March 4, 2018

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Brands like Nike, Expedia, Acer suspend ads on Infowars' YouTube channels when contacted by CNN; some wonder why YouTube filters failed to block ads on Infowars — Facebook, YouTube fail to blunt conspiracy theories — Some of the biggest brands in the U.S. had ads running on the YouTube channels …

Discussion: The Hill, The Verge, @kylegriffin1, Mediaite, Motherboard, The Daily Caller and Gizmodo

Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:

BuzzSumo study of 100M articles posted in 2017 shows social sharing halved since 2015 and Google sites drove 2x more referrals to publishers than social media — Publishers may be getting dinged — and in some cases destroyed — by Facebook's move to decrease the amount of publisher content …

Discussion: BuzzSumo, @skgreen, @torystarr3, Search Engine Journal and Social Media Today, more at Techmeme »

Cara Buckley / New York Times:

E! producer Aileen Gram-Moreno says she was fired for allowing a clip that criticized the network over gender pay disparity to air during Golden Globes show — With accusations of sexual harassment dogging its star host, Ryan Seacrest, and celebrities reportedly planning to steer clear …

Discussion: Hollywood Life, @shannoncoulter, @caranyt, Refinery29, @tvwiththinus, Deadline, Variety, East Bay Times, Mediaite, Yahoo! News, Glamour, Hollywood Reporter, Vulture, The Wrap, TV Tattle and The New York Observer

Andy Bechtel / The Editor's Desk:

Interview with Lisa Tozzi, global news director at BuzzFeed News, about curating breaking news, headline writing, and advice for journalism students — Lisa Tozzi is global news director at BuzzFeed News, a position she has held since 2013. She previously worked at The New York Times …

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

Interview with Anna Veduta, one of two people running the English-language version of Latvia-based Meduza, an independent Russian news site — The English edition of the three-year-old Russian news site now gets an average of 100,000 monthly unique visitors and can count among its readers everyone …

Discussion: Meduza.io and New York Times

Rick Gladstone / New York Times:

World's longest-imprisoned journalist, Yusuf Ruzimuradov, has been freed in Uzbekistan after spending 19 years in jail — Uzbekistan has freed a reporter who was incarcerated for nearly two decades on sedition charges, the longest-known prison term served by a journalist, human rights advocates said Friday.

Discussion: Human Rights Watch, @nytimesworld, pulse.ng, The Express Tribune and Committee to Protect …

Pew Research Center:

Study: in the US, 78% of 18-24 year olds use Snapchat, 71% use Instagram, 45% use Twitter; nearly 75% of US adults and 94% of 18-24 year olds use YouTube — A majority of Americans use Facebook and YouTube, but young adults are especially heavy users of Snapchat and Instagram

Discussion: Forbes, Social Media Today, The Verge and Pew Research Center, more at Techmeme »

Max Willens / Digiday:

Publishers like ViralNova, 9gag, Bored Panda, Diply see engagement drop precipitously after Facebook algorithm changes; Distractify saw traffic decline 78% YoY — LittleThings shut down after Facebook's algorithm change cut its organic reach by 75 percent, but it's not the only social publisher that's …

New York Times:

Advertisers complain Facebook is inconsistent and gender biased in its process of determining whether images should be rejected for being sexually suggestive — Advertisers, especially smaller ones, complain of inconsistency and gender bias in the process that determines whether images are rejected for being sexually suggestive.

Discussion: TechCrunch and The Next Web

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

The Weinstein Company avoids bankruptcy through a $500M takeover led by Maria Contreras-Sweet; deal includes up to $90M in compensation for Weinstein accusers — Weinstein empire unravels amid scandal — The Weinstein Company's bankruptcy talk has been replaced by deal talk.

Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:

Some sites change domain names, a practice known as domain hopping, to avoid ad agency blacklists and losing traffic as a result of Facebook's algorithm changes — Domain hopping is one way publishers are combatting declining traffic from Facebook while also staying one step ahead of advertising blacklists.

Discussion: @adam22

Paul Mozur / New York Times:

China is prosecuting a citizen who shared a critical message on WhatsApp; message was likely obtained by hacking a phone or via spy in a WhatsApp group — SHANGHAI — Within its digital borders, China has long censored what its people read and say online. Now, it is increasingly going beyond …

Discussion: @nytimesbusiness, @theresaafallon, @ehundman, @peterinexile, @dgtam86, @scs_disputes, @niubi, @paulmozur, @emilyywu, @nytimes and @politicalshort, more at Techmeme »

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