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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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Press Gazette, @jayrosen_nyu, @jarroddicker, @benmullin, @markscott82, @tessatkinson and @justin_b_smith
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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@sarafischer, Gizmodo, Engadget, @digitalshields, @pkafka, MacRumors, @shiraovide, @jonathanex, @charliebeckett, @raju, Fast Company and Seeking Alpha, more at Techmeme »
Susan Goldberg / National Geographic:
National Geographic asked a historian to audit its archives, admits to “appalling stories” filled with racism in its past, vows to examine and confront racism — We asked a preeminent historian to investigate our coverage of people of color in the U.S. and abroad. Here's what he found.
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@deggans, bookforum.com, @frankshyong, @dulinor, @littlemsfossil, NPR, Isma'il Kushkush, Cindy Gallop, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, theGrio, Splinter, Newsweek, The Outline, Salon, Boing Boing and Fast Company
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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Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter and CNN
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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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Journalism.co.uk, @jeluebering, @jonathanstray and @niemanlab
Catherine Neilan / City A.M.:
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom says RT's broadcasting license may be revoked if UK finds Russia was behind attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal — Ofcom has told Russia Today that if the UK government confirms Moscow was behind the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia it may prompt the watchdog to consider its licence.
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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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The Guardian, CNNMoney, @hadas_gold and Editor & Publisher
Tom Miles / Reuters:
U.N. 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.
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Motherboard, TechCrunch, Thomson Reuters, New York Magazine, The Hill, Mashable and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos and co-founder of SBNation, announces he is launching Civiqs, a public opinion research group — Nearly a million respondents are a deep new data source for Democrats. One early finding: Don't talk about impeachment. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief
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@billinportland, @buzzfeedben, @taniel, @markos, @markos and Daily Kos
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sources: A&E Networks CEO Nancy Dubuc is in advanced talks to take over as CEO at Vice Media from co-founder Shane Smith; Abbe Raven to serve as interim CEO — UPDATED: In a surprise move, A+E Networks CEO Nancy Dubuc is in advanced talks to take over the chief executive role at Vice Media …
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Following “blagging” allegations, Sunday Times reporters instructed not to delete emails relating to former UK PM Gordon Brown and Alastair Campbell — A Sunday Times private investigator turned whistleblower has told BuzzFeed News the newspaper should have “thousands of emails” …
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@byline_media, @markdistef and @markdistef
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MoviePass CEO backtracks on previous comments about tracking users before and after movies, says the app only tracks users' location when they use the app — MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe said he misspoke at a recent industry conference in describing the kinds of data the company tracks on its users …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, BGR, 9to5Mac, [H]ardOCP News/Article Feed, Fast Company and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Eddy Cue Q&A on the line between free speech and open platforms, plans to integrate Texture content into Apple News, why Apple likely won't buy Disney, Netflix — We're on the ground at SXSW 2018 in Austin, Texas where Apple's Eddy Cue is about to take the stage to discuss media curation with CNN's Dylan Byers.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources”
Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources”
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Business Insider, The Verge, Washington Post, @joshelman, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, @richdemuro, Folio, PR Newswire, Quartz, Gizmodo, Variety, MacRumors and Fortune