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Ahead of GDPR, Facebook debuts enhanced privacy controls for all users globally, starting in EU, with more choices about ads, allowing face recognition, more — In recent weeks we've announced several steps to give people more control over their privacy and explain how we use data.
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Erin Somers / Publishers Lunch:
Harper's Magazine Editor James Marcus says he was fired after “opposing the publication of Katie Roiphe's cover story in the March issue” — Subsequent to our brief note from Monday that Harper's Magazine editor James Marcus has left the publication, Marcus tells PL that he was fired …
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David Sims / The Atlantic:
The standoff between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival reflects disagreement that will be hard to resolve over the importance of theatrical movie experiences — The ongoing publicity battle between one of cinema's hoariest institutions (the Cannes Film Festival) and its loudest new …
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Rob Balin, the lawyer who represented news orgs including the NYT on Monday and persuaded judge to name Sean Hannity as Michael Cohen's secret client — Rob Balin, a media lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine, is the reason we know that Sean Hannity was Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's secret client.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sources: Sean Hannity is so close to Trump some WH aides have dubbed him the “shadow” Chief of Staff, with Trump consulting the host about what he should tweet
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Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Quartz, @repspeier, @waldojaquith, Ad Age, The Week, NPR, HuffPost, Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, @philiprucker, @jdawsey1 and The Atlantic
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
After nearly 15 years, The Hill is ending its annual 50 Most Beautiful List that generated controversy and was even featured on HBO's “Veep” — After nearly 15 years, The Hill is bidding a beautiful bye-bye to its annual 50 Most Beautiful list.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sports-focused streaming service fuboTV raises $75M Series D with AMC Networks as a new investor and 21st Century Fox, Sky, and more participating — Days after Disney-owned ESPN launched its new streaming service, ESPN+, a three-year old streaming TV service for sports fans, fuboTV …
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MediaPost, Multichannel News, Variety, Bloomberg and Recode
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube introduces new monetization tools for creators and announces expansion of sponsorships, as it faces backlash from smaller creators — YouTube says it's rolling out more tools to help its creators make money from their videos. The changes are meant to address creators' complaints …
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Adweek, @susanwojcicki, YouTube Creator Blog and Polygon, more at Techmeme »
Eugene Kim / CNBC:
Jeff Bezos says Prime has 100M+ members worldwide, sharing for the first time Prime membership numbers via his annual shareholder letter — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has released his latest annual shareholder letter. — In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having higher standards in running a business.
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Variety, The Wrap, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Verge and Recode, more at Techmeme »
Claire L. Evans / New York Magazine:
Profile of Jaime Levy, the cyber punk publishing pioneer who created two of the most popular magazines of the 1990s, Cyber Rag and Electronic Hollywood — How a punk kid from L.A. created the coolest publications of the 1990s. — In the early '90s, Jaime Levy, a punk-rock hacker chick from Los Angeles …
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
A look at The Denver Post's gilded age of sports coverage in the 1980s, as longtime columnists and reporters mourn its decline and some defect to The Athletic — How a hedge fund slowly unraveled one of the best sports pages in the country — On the sports page of The Denver Post, Jason Blevins was an oddity.
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@joeyrkaufman, @johnwenzel, @robert_matthew, @mikejudsondp, @salimvalji, @willgravesap, @cnewquist, @markkiszla and @mccarthyryanj
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Analysis of ~87K articles about Facebook from USA Today, NYT, Guardian, and BuzzFeed from 2006-2018 shows coverage turned mostly negative after 2016 election — Sentiment analysis of over 87,000 articles provided to BuzzFeed News details the evolution of the social network as seen through the publications that cover it.
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@caseynewton, @brianprovost, @cwarzel and @cwarzel, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Verizon's Oath poaches Alibaba Managing Director K. Guru Gowrappan to be COO, as Head of Media Brands Simon Khalaf - who oversaw HuffPost, others - leaves — Simon Khalaf is out; K. Guru Gowrappan is in. — Verizon is moving around top managers at Oath, its Yahoo-AOL tie-up that's supposed …
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