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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Zuckerberg says Facebook won't pay annual fees to publishers, an idea floated by Murdoch, and emphasizes interest in helping news outlets sell subscriptions — Sorry, Rupert Murdoch: Facebook isn't a pay TV company. — Quick memo to Rupert Murdoch, Jonah Peretti and other media executives …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Zuckerberg says Facebook is already ranking news organizations based on trust, will invest billions to fight fake news, remains committed to WhatsApp encryption — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based …
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The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, HuffPost, @emilybell, Axios, TIME, @realsaavedra, @dnvolz, @kantrowitz and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook announces Clear History feature, letting users stop Facebook-collected browsing history from being associated with their account — It's arguably the company's biggest update since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. — Facebook users will soon be able to opt …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook, which relies on Republicans to advocate for minimal regulation, is bringing in advisors to investigate claims it's biased against conservative voices — To address allegations of bias, Facebook is bringing in two outside advisors — one to conduct a legal audit of its impact …
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Sources: Wendell Jamieson, the NYT editor who resigned after an internal investigation, was accused of inappropriate behavior by at least three female employees — Wendell Jamieson, the metro editor whose resignation was announced by The New York Times on Monday after an internal investigation …
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@nytmedia, @davidfolkenflik, @amandahess, @mathewi, New York Post and Gothamist
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
NYT Executive Editor Den Baquet tells staff that the resignation of Metro Editor Wendell Jamieson was within the #metoo realm and not about journalism — The paper of record talks the talk on sexual misconduct—but in yet another case, it doesn't fully walk the walk.
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@joepompeo and @petersterne
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snapchat is rolling out an update, previously in testing, that will sort friend communication by recency and move Stories from the friends page to Discover — Snapchat's redesign was a disaster. It cratered ad views and revenue and led Snapchat's user count to actually shrink in March.
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The Wrap, Recode, New York Times and investor.snap.com, more at Techmeme »
Variety:
Sources: NBC News told reporters to mention letter of support for Tom Brokaw in their reporting, raising concerns among some staffers who had issues with letter — On Monday, NBC News staffers received a memo with guidance from the network's standards and practices on how to handle reporting …
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TVWeek.com, Washington Post, The Villager Newspaper, The A.V. Club, @sarahlellison, Music Business Worldwide, @danielleiat, @andrewwmullins, @shannonrwatts, @ewagmeister, @jimwindolf, HuffPost, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, New York Daily News, Fox News, @moorehn, Mediaite, TV Tattle, The Wrap, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller, Refinery29, @poniewozik, AOL, Splinter, Washington Free Beacon and Page Six
BBC:
BBC Afghan service reporter Ahmad Shah was shot dead by armed men on Monday, becoming the fifth BBC journalist to die in Afghanistan since the 1990s — A BBC reporter has been killed in the east Afghan province of Khost, on a day of attacks which left nearly 40 people dead, other journalists among them.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
GLAAD denounces Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he dedicates segment to Pulse survivor Brandon Wolf, leading to Wolf receiving death threats — GLAAD blasts the Fox News host for a segment criticizing Pulse nightclub survivor Brandon Wolf — Tucker Carlson is facing heat from GLAAD …
Manish Singh / The Outline:
Facebook has quietly ended its Free Basics program in more than six nations and territories in recent months including Myanmar and Latin American markets — Facebook enabled ethnic-cleansing-related hate speech in Myanmar; many died and thousands fled. Rather than take responsibility, it's turning away.
Discussion:
Engadget and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
The Weinstein Company declares Lantern Capital is the winning bidder in bankruptcy sale and turns away a late bid from Broadway producer Howard Kagan — Despite a last minute bid that didn't come in until the day after the polls closed, The Weinstein Co. officially declared …
Discussion:
Variety, New York Times and TVWeek.com
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: CBS News execs were so dismayed by WHCD this year that they considered withdrawing from future events, until WHCD said changes are being considered — As the power elite of Washington filed out of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday …
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The Wrap, ABC News, theGrio, Vox, @rezaaslan, Splinter, The New York Observer, @rodneyanon, @thefawz, @ggreenwald, @kharyp, @scott_tobias, @walkerbragman, @grynbaum, @wajahatali, @jamespmorrison, @sally_field, @todayshow and @jennyjonesie
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PR Newswire:
Letter from The Hill's Chairman James Finkelstein to WHCA's Exec Director, explaining its decision to withdraw from future events over Michelle Wolf's comments
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Columbia Journalism Review, New York Post, Mediaite, Adweek, Splinter, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @swanniontv, @tomgara, @moj_kobe and @existentialfish
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