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Timothy Burke / Deadspin:
Creator of Deadspin's Sinclair video montage says his intent was apolitical and worries about how the video could be used to confirm people's distrust of news — This past weekend, the media watchdog group Allied Progress began airing a message on Sinclair Broadcast Group stations urging viewers …
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TV stations bought by Sinclair reduce local political coverage, increase national political coverage, and shift rightward, according to Emory researchers — In recent weeks, news anchors at local TV stations across the country have warned Americans about the “sharing of biased and false news” …
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Sinclair CEO David Smith says he told Trump “we are here to deliver your message” during campaign but that he made a similar offer to the Clinton camp — The rightwing broadcaster met Trump at the White House to pitch a potentially lucrative new product to officials
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sinclair uses banner ads on affiliates' websites to point to a YouTube video criticizing Brian Stelter and CNN for a “hypocritical attack on Sinclair”
Sinclair uses banner ads on affiliates' websites to point to a YouTube video criticizing Brian Stelter and CNN for a “hypocritical attack on Sinclair”
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter endorses the Honest Ads Act, a bill introduced last year to promote political ad transparency, following Facebook's endorsement of it last week — Just hours before social media companies face a regulatory reckoning with Facebook's appearance on the Hill, Twitter is taking a step to get right with Congress.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
European Commission investigators raid London offices of 21st Century Fox's Fox Networks Group in broad probe of anti-competitive practices around sports rights — The London offices of 21st Century Fox's Fox Networks Group were raided by European Commission investigators Tuesday …
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Janice Min, former co-president and CCO of The Hollywood Reporter, signs consulting deal with NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment — The Hollywood Reporter's former co-president and chief creative officer will advise E! and other NBCU cable networks. — Janice Min, the former co-president …
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
High-profile accounts and popular music videos on YouTube were hacked and defaced, and the most-viewed video of all time, “Despacito”, disappeared briefly — Lots of popular music videos have been defaced — YouTube appears to have fallen victim to hackers today …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg's TicToc, its Twitter video news service, will launch a podcast, audio news digest, and a newsletter next month — Now that Bloomberg's new live Twitter network TicToc has taken off, it's expanding its brand into more direct-to-consumer offerings, like podcasts, audio digests and a newsletter, launching later this month.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Tegna, which owns TV broadcast stations in 39 US markets, is working with Snap to include public Snapchat videos and images in its news coverage — Local broadcaster Tegna has partnered with Snap to bring public Snapchat stories to its local news programs.
Sally Kohn / Fast Company:
CNN commentator Sally Kohn talks about her experience as a liberal and openly-gay pundit at Fox News and what she learned at the network — Sally Kohn was a left-leaning commentator on the right-wing network. “It taught me that no one is the embodiment of their worst stereotype.”
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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Vimeo launches a free macOS app that helps simplify video sharing and has Final Cut Pro integration — The YouTube competitor video site Vimeo has today debuted a new Vimeo app for macOS, available for free in the Mac App Store. The native client simplifies video sharing for Vimeo users …
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Tony Rehagen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Sarah Kendzior, a political journalist based in St. Louis who foresaw Trump's authoritarian streak and highlighted his relationship with Putin early — Sarah Kendzior still has trouble explaining the limousines to her neighbors. Kendzior is a political journalist who works mostly …