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Some ad tech firms worry EU's GDPR will just increase market share for Facebook and Google, but EU's Věra Jourová doubts that will be an effect of the law — Big tech companies gain while smaller online ad firms are squeezed under the European Union's GDPR, which takes effect in May.
Chris Butler / Internet Archive Blogs:
Wayback Machine says it declined to take down “fraudulent” blog posts after Joy Reid's lawyers contacted archive; robots.txt later excluded blog from archives — Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid …
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Twitter user shared screenshots of homophobic posts on Joy Reid's Reid Report, found via Wayback Machine; Reid claims content was manipulated by external party
Twitter user shared screenshots of homophobic posts on Joy Reid's Reid Report, found via Wayback Machine; Reid claims content was manipulated by external party
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
McClatchy partners with Google to roll out its new subscription tool, Subscribe with Google, across all 30 of its local news sites across 14 states — Google is rolling out its subscription tool, Subscribe with Google, on April 24, and it picked newspaper chain McClatchy as its first launch partner …
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@dawnbvaughan, @laurenhorsch, @doug_hanks, @mcclatchy and @cforman
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Mark Anderson / Sacramento Business Journal:
McClatchy's Sacramento Bee announces plans to lay off or buy out 14 editorial staffers and eight working on production and copy desk, effective in early May — The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday announced another round of layoffs in its newsroom. The latest round of job cuts includes 14 journalists …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Some YouTube thumbnails depicted bestiality, now pulled; YouTube says monitoring tech missed because bestiality thumbnails may lack signals of typical porn — There is bestiality on YouTube, and it's surprisingly easy to find. It's also surprisingly prevalent, but not in videos …
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@pkafka, Mashable, The Verge, @jimwaterson, @gaywonk, @mattmittenthal, @cwarzel, @cwarzel and @cwarzel, more at Techmeme »
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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches a redesigned mobile app for its free users that lets them listen on-demand to any song on one of 15 personalized discovery playlists — Today at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström announced a brand new free version of the Spotify mobile app.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sinclair revises plan for Tribune deal, would sell 23 TV stations, keep New York's WPIX, sell but operate Chicago's WGN, end up with 215 stations in 102 markets — Sinclair Broadcast Group has been forced to significantly revise its plan for station divestitures if its $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media is approved.
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TVSpy, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Reuters, Radio & Television …, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis and sbgi.net
Mike Shields / Business Insider:
Sources: Bloomberg is planning to erect a paywall on its site, possibly as soon as next month — - Bloomberg is planning to start charging readers to access stories on Bloomberg.com, potentially starting next month, according to people familiar with the matter.
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@yoda and Talking Biz News
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
UK-based digital publication The Debrief, which launched in 2014 and was aimed at young women, is shutting down, possibly due to changes to Facebook News Feed — It launched in 2014 with ambitions to be more than just a “BuzzFeed” for young women. Now, The UK-based digital publication The Debrief, is shutting down.
Amy Russo / Mediaite:
Trump tells supporters in email he's boycotting the White House Correspondents Dinner and will hold a rally that night in Michigan's Washington Township instead — President Donald Trump is explaining his absence from the upcoming White House Correspondents' Dinner with a fundraising email …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and The Daily Caller
Kellen / Droid Life:
Source: Google Play Music will be replaced by YouTube's upcoming music streaming service, with Play Music users forced to use the new service by the end of 2018 — When Google finally launches its rumored YouTube Remix platform this year, one of its other services will be put to rest.
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9to5Google and @mhbergen
Radhika Jones / Vanity Fair:
Vanity Fair's website has launched a paywall, with readers getting four articles a month for free before needing to subscribe — I've been an avid watcher of The Crown for its first two seasons. It is one of the most subtle and fascinating studies of female power I've seen.
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Digiday, Wall Street Journal, @digiday and @claireatki