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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Elon Musk is backing comedy project from former Onion editors Cole Bolton and Ben Berkley, who've hired three writers and an editor away from The Onion — Early in February, the satirical news publication The Onion published a story about Elon Musk, titled, “Elon Musk Offering $1.2 Billion …
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
A&E Networks Chief Executive Nancy Dubuc becomes CEO of VICE, while co-founder Shane Smith moves to executive chairman role — News comes a day after Dubuc made official her plans to leave a longtime role at A+E Networks. — Nancy Dubuc is officially taking the reins at Vice.
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Press Gazette:
Following nerve agent attack on ex-Russian spy in England, UK MPs call for RT's broadcasting license to be reviewed and for the network to be banned — Kremlin-funded TV station RT (formerly Russia Today) has hit back at MPs' calls to ban it from broadcasting in the UK after the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Salisbury.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti discusses the company's missed 2017 targets, struggles with advertisers, and potential for a partial paywall on the site — This article is a free preview of the new issue of Digiday magazine, our quarterly print publication that's distributed to Digiday+ members.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Facebook is aiming to launch a news section for its Watch platform this summer and is testing different video partnerships with roughly ten publishers — Facebook is getting ready to launch a news section for its Watch platform and it's testing different video partnerships with roughly 10 publishers, Axios has learned.
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Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
How conservative activists from Project Veritas use hoax job recruitment and seduction to catfish tech giants like Twitter; experts question legality — Mo Norai has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's done stints at Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple, but only as a contract worker …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: subscribers to newspapers will find articles from those outlets appearing higher in Google search results; Google to share more details on March 20 — Tech giant said to begin sharing data on potential customers — Publishers have pushed for new tools to find readers who pay
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at Lynx Insights, a Reuters in-house automation tool that surfaces trends and anomalies in data, which reporters can then use to accelerate their work — With Lynx Insights, Reuters wants to marry the data-crunching skills of machines with the editorial judgment of human reporters.
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Greg Dool / Folio:
New York magazine and The New Yorker top National Magazine Awards, with Ronan Farrow's reporting about Harvey Weinstein receiving the public interest award — NEW YORK—Despite honoring an industry in never-ending flux, much about the 2018 National Magazine Awards (or the Ellies …
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Debra Kamin / Variety:
CBS News President David Rhodes says Stormy Daniels interview has not been delayed because of legal action from Trump and dismissed talk of an injunction — JERUSALEM — CBS News boss David Rhodes hasn't seen Stormy Daniels' “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper, but he promises that it's coming soon.
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Tom Miles / Reuters:
UN human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar say that Facebook has played a role in spreading hate speech in the country — GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech there.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Some cable networks have again aired a live Trump campaign rally filled with insults and falsehoods, and it's still wrong — Even before the 2016 presidential election, CNN's top honcho admitted that his network had given Donald Trump too much free exposure in the Republican primary.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Jon Miller and TPG acquired majority control of Fandom last month at a valuation, sources say, of $200M — They bought Fandom last month, and they want more. — A few years ago, investors were optimistic about digital media companies. Now they're not. — Time to invest in digital media companies.
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