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The Wall Street Journal's EIC Gerard Baker is stepping down and will become editor at large, to be replaced by Matt Murray, currently executive editor — Matt Murray has been named Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, succeeding Gerard Baker …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos — Feature to allow videos of up to an hour in length — Instagram, which allows users to post photos and brief glimpses …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook tests Lip Sync Live feature to compete with musical.ly and says users can now upload videos with copyrighted music — Facebook users will no longer have their uploaded videos with copyrighted background music taken down thanks to a slew of deals with all the major record labels plus many indies.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News apologizes for using misleading pictures of Philadelphia Eagles kneeling in prayer, during segment about White House visit and anthem protest — Mayor: Trump ‘childish’ for nixing Eagles' visit — Fox News apologized Tuesday after receiving a torrent of criticism over the network's use …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Florida judge rules BuzzFeed can claim “fair reporting privilege” for its post about the Russia dossier in a libel case brought by tech exec Aleksej Gubarev — BuzzFeed scored a significant legal victory on Monday with a judge's ruling that the online outlet appears …
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Pew Research Center:
Pew study: 68% of Americans say they feel overwhelmed by the amount of news available, with the number rising to 77% among Republicans — If you feel like there is too much news and you can't keep up, you are not alone. A sizable portion of Americans are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of news there is …
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Spiegel announces new subscription model with Spiegel+, a service which combines a paywall with a metered system in an effort to increase revenue — The pivot to paid has many variations. German publisher Spiegel, which publishes weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, is taking …
Karen K. Ho / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A: CBS's David Begnaud on covering Puerto Rico when few others did — Just 48 hours before the start of hurricane season, CBS Correspondent David Begnaud was back in the US territory of Puerto Rico, reporting about a Harvard study that estimates the number of deaths linked to Hurricane Maria at more than 4,000.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of independent music journalist Zachary Stoner on May 30 in Chicago and calls for thorough investigation — The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of independent music journalist Zachary Stoner …
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Nick Baumann / HuffPost:
After writing about a person running a big anti-Muslim Twitter account, HuffPost's Luke O'Brien was suspended on Twitter, and he and colleagues were threatened — When Twitter outsources policing its platform to victims of harassment, it empowers brigades of trolls and extremists.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Amazon signs a first-look deal with writer, producer, and director Jordan Peele for his TV series — Jordan Peele, the writer and director of the hit film “Get Out,” has signed a deal giving Amazon the first look at his ideas for television series, the company said on Tuesday.
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Pete Brown / Columbia Journalism Review:
Study: Apple News overwhelmingly favors national outlets in newsletters, with just 14 of the 390 articles reviewed coming from regionally focused publishers — Stung by changes to Facebook's News Feed, publishers are reportedly “falling in love with Apple News”—though the affection may not always be mutual.
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