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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook partners with seven news orgs, including ABC News, CNN, and Fox News, to roll out a series of news shows on Facebook Watch this summer — After going through the fake-news wringer, Facebook is shelling out money on original news content. The strategy is partly aimed at driving …
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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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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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The Verge, Tubefilter, Fast Company, Variety, Engadget, Gizmodo, @juiceboxca, Business Insider, Mashable and The FADER, more at Techmeme »
News Corp:
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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Michael Wilson / New York Times:
A Brooklyn eatery lost customers and faced a massive online backlash after a HuffPost article identified its owner as the brother of a right-wing troll — The night that ended far differently started out normal. It was Thursday at Mekelburg's, a busy Brooklyn grocery with a cafe and bar …
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Nick Baumann / HuffPost:
After naming woman behind anti-Muslim Twitter account, a HuffPost reporter's Twitter account was temporarily suspended, while 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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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Spiegel expands its paywall and announces subscription service Spiegel+, offering readers a digital-only subscription for €19.99/month, or €24.99 with print — The pivot to paid has many variations. German publisher Spiegel, which publishes weekly news magazine Der Spiegel …
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
SEC filing: McCormick Media's deal to buy ex-Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro's 25.6% stake in the company for $208.6M has fallen through — Michael Ferro, Tronc's former chairman, said he terminated the agreement to sell all his shares in the company to McCormick Media because of a “breach of its obligations” by the buyer.
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Chicago Sun-Times, Wall Street Journal, @kurtgessler and @megjameslat
Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:
The New Yorker's editorial staff are unionizing with the NewsGuild of New York — The era of white-collar organized labor is fully upon us: the editorial staff of The New Yorker wants to unionize. This morning, organizers sent a letter to the magazine's editor, David Remnick …
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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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First Amendment Watch, @juddlegum, Hollywood Reporter, @davidjoachim, @mattmittenthal, @adamweinstein, Vanity Fair, @joepompeo and @joepompeo
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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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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