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The Guardian:
Walmart announces it will remove Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout aisles but not from entire store, following pressure from conservative lobby groups — National Center on Sexual Exploitation calls Walmart a ‘trailblazer in corporate responsibility’ for pulling magazine from checkout aisles
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Peter White / Deadline:
BBC publishes annual content strategy, says it risks being “squeezed out” of the global market by competitors like Amazon and Netflix amid market consolidation — The BBC has warned that it risks being squeezed out of an “ever more competitive global market” …
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bbc.co.uk, The Guardian and Press Gazette
Jethro Mullen / CNNMoney:
Playboy magazine has announced it is leaving Facebook, citing the social network's handling of user data — Zuckerberg says he's open to testifying before Congress — Playboy says it's leaving Facebook over the social network's handling of user data. — The move was announced late Tuesday …
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Nieman Lab, PR Newswire, The Daily Caller, @coffeeownsme, TechSpot, BGR, Gizmodo, The Verge and Mashable
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress “within a matter of weeks”
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Louise Matsakis / Wired:
Princeton University study finds 90% of affiliate marketing ads on YouTube and Pinterest are not disclosed, violating FTC guidelines — IF YOU SEARCH for the millennial makeup brand Glossier on YouTube, one of the first results likely to appear is from Olivia Jade, a fashion and beauty vlogger with over one million subscribers.
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Engadget, @lmatsakis and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
NBC has fired EVP Scot Chastain, who ran marketing for its affiliated and owned television stations, after an interval investigation into alleged misconduct — NBC has fired longtime affiliate-marketing chief Scot Chastain following an internal investigation into alleged misconduct by the executive.
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TVSpy, Ad Age, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Wrap
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Profile of the West End Phoenix, a non-profit and ad-free community newspaper founded by the rock star Dave Bidni, which covers Toronto's West End neighborhood — Almost six months ago, a Canadian rock star started a community paper. Amazingly, that's the least interesting thing about West End Phoenix.
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Fair housing groups sue Facebook, saying its ad targeting tools still allow discrimination against certain groups, including disabled veterans, single mothers — Fair housing groups filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday saying that Facebook continues to discriminate against certain groups …
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Vox Media's new package template groups related stories and emphasizes context to drive recirculation within the site — With Facebook turning down the traffic firehose, it's more important than ever to convert those all one-pageview visits into two- and three-pageview visits.
Discussion:
MediaShift
Neil Shah / Wall Street Journal:
Last year, US recorded music revenue rose 17% to $8.7B; amount of music released in 2017 is ~7x that of 1960; many artists focus on singles over albums — The sea of music that the industry is producing has both artists and fans feeling submerged — In the age of music-streaming, some fans are drowning.
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@wsj, @bmorrissey and @steven_hyden
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
By attacking Parkland students, some mainstream voices on political right are adopting conspiracy mongering and bad-faith arguments from outlets like Infowars — Six months ago, the conservative radio host and blogger Erick Erickson wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times, inspiringly titled “How to Find Common Ground.”
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@dankennedy_nu, @bgrueskin, @jjsahadi, @parkermolloy, @sulliview, @normornstein, @jennifermascia and @olivianuzzi
Claude Solnik / Long Island Business News:
Newsday Co-Publisher Edward Bushey is leaving to join Tronc while Debby Krenek has been promoted to role of sole publisher — Newsday Co-publisher Edward Bushey is leaving the Melville-based publication and its affiliated properties as of April to work for Tronc, the successor to Tribune Publishing …
eMarketer:
US TV ad spend will slip 0.5% YoY to $69.87B in 2018 and will make up less than 25% of total ad spend by 2022, while digital ads will rise 18.7% YoY to $107.30B — TV ad spending will continue its decline this year, according to eMarketer's latest US advertising forecast.
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TechCrunch and Recode
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