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Tom Wolfe, the journalist and author who helped create the 1960s movement known as “The New Journalism”, has died at age 87 — Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers …
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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Betting-focused channels and fantasy sites expected to crowd the media field with the SCOTUS decision to allow states to offer sports betting — TVG, HRTV, WinView ready to pounce on opportunity — The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to offer sports gambling services …
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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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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 …
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 …
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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.
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@dimblebot, @robmanuel, @chrismoranuk, @charliebeckett and @markdistef
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.
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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Paul Boyle / News Media Alliance:
Bipartisan group of ten senators debut PRINT act, to try to suspend new tariffs being imposed on US news industry's main source of paper, which is from Canada — Bill Would Suspend Newsprint Tariffs While Government Studies Effects on U.S. Industries — Arlington, Va. - Today …
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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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Marketing Land and Marketing Dive, more at Techmeme »
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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@cjr and @malalibashir
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TiVo adds Alexa voice control to its DVRs, says assistant will be able to perform tasks like changing channels, launching apps, more; roll out expected June 1 — TiVo's DVRs are getting Alexa support. The company is announcing its lineup of DVRs, including Series 4 (Premiere), 5 (Roamio) …
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