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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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RT:
Russia's Foreign Ministry says it will expel British media from Russia if the UK revokes RT's broadcasting license — Not a single British media outlet will be working in Russia if London decides to shut down RT broadcasting in the UK, Maria Zakharova, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said.
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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@charliebeckett, @sarafischer, Android Police, Gizmodo, Engadget, @pkafka, MacRumors, @shiraovide, @jonathanex, @raju, @digitalshields, Seeking Alpha and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
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, @jarroddicker, @jayrosen_nyu, @benmullin, @markscott82, @tessatkinson and @justin_b_smith
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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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
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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The Wrap, Slate, Magazine, Fstoppers, @umajmishra, bookforum.com, @deggans, NPR, @frankshyong, @dulinor, @littlemsfossil, Cindy Gallop, Isma'il Kushkush, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, theGrio, Splinter, Newsweek, The Outline and Salon
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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Thomson Reuters, Motherboard, TechCrunch, New York Magazine, The Hill, Fast Company and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
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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@abrams, @binarybits, @ellenhuet, @kashhill, @aurich, @danbeucke and @nitashatiku, 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
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Brennan Gilmore, who filmed terror incident at Charlottesville, has sued Infowars, Alex Jones, Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft, and others for defamation — Brennan Gilmore alleges Alex Jones' broadcasts and others led to him receiving real world death threats. — A man who filmed the violence sparked …
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”
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The Verge, Business Insider, Washington Post, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, @joshelman, @richdemuro, PR Newswire, Quartz, Folio, Variety, MacRumors, Gizmodo and Fortune
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