Mediagazer: Google News bug means BBC News articles are dominating search results for “news” by UK users, to the detriment of other publishers; Google working on a fix (BuzzFeed)

10:35 AM ET, May 15, 2018

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

A study of two print and two digital-born news outlets in each of 11 European countries revealed that 41% of bylines were by male reporters — Across 11 countries studied, 41 percent of bylines were male, 23 percent female. — It's the era of #metoo, when reporting by female journalists like Jodi Kantor …

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BuzzFeed:

Google News bug means BBC News articles are dominating search results for “news” by UK users, to the detriment of other publishers; Google working on a fix — It comes days after Google announced big changes in how it ranks news publishers.

Tony Semerad / Salt Lake Tribune:

Salt Lake Tribune cuts 34 of its 90 newsroom staff, eliminates Utah news section several days a week, and will cut back on pages amid plunging revenues — In a radical restructuring of Utah's largest newspaper, owner Paul Huntsman proceeded Monday with cutting 34 Salt Lake Tribune employees …

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Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:

Profile of David Brody, correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, who receives access to Trump while giving a direct line to an evangelical audience — David Brody has unusual access to the president. In return, Mr. Trump gets a direct line to the evangelical audience he depends on.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says ~85% of new spending to go toward original content, plans to have about 1,000 originals total by the end of 2018 — Netflix is sharply steering its new content spending toward original projects, with around 85% of new spending going to original TV shows …

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Bloomberg:

Sources: Amazon tests display ad product letting merchants buy spots across other sites after it abruptly stopped buying Google Product Listing Ads last month — - New service lets merchants run Amazon ads on other sites, apps — Amazon abruptly stopped buying Google shopping ads recently

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Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the ten journalists killed in Afghanistan on April 30, nine of whom died in a suicide bomb blast, based on interviews with the people who knew them — The funeral of AFP photographer Shah Marai. Photo courtesy Andrew Quilty. — It was the deadliest day for journalists in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime.

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The Guardian:

Facebook releases first content moderation report, closed 583M fake accounts in Q1 2018, took action on almost 1.5B accounts and 2.5M instances of hate speech — Firm's first quarterly moderation report also shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence — Facebook took moderation action …

Discussion: @alexhern, more at Techmeme »

Jason Schwartz / Politico:

Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti threatened to sue conservative outlet The Daily Caller News Foundation after they published a report on him — Stormy Daniels's lawyer calls out Daily Caller News Foundation for alleged “hit pieces.” — On Sunday, a national news outlet published …

Discussion: The Wrap and Mediaite

Committee to Protect Journalists:

CPJ urges Kenyan president to not sign a bill that would target journalists, bloggers, and others with jail and fines for publishing “false” information — The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta not to sign into law a cybercrimes bill …

Discussion: Daily Nation

Emily Smith / Page Six:

Sources: Bill O'Reilly is in talks to return to cable news at Newsmax TV, one year after being forced out from Fox News amid sexual harassment allegations — Bill O'Reilly is in talks to head back to cable news in his old 8 p.m. slot, but this time at Newsmax TV, sources exclusively tell Page Six.

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