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2:40 PM ET, June 6, 2018

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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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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
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.
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 …
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 …
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Snap hires Flipboard's ex-Head of Publisher Partnerships Sarah Gallagher to lead its newly created 12-person support team for publishers  —  Snapchat is looking to get publishers more invested into the platform with a key new hire of a publishing veteran.  —  Former Flipboard …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Fox News host Shannon Bream offered an on-air apology on Tuesday night following Monday segment on Philadelphia Eagles players  —  Fox News host Shannon Bream offered an on-air apology on Tuesday night following a Monday segment where she suggested that Philadelphia Eagles players who were kneeling …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Hill and CBSSports.com
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
Business publication Fast Company is unionizing with the Writers Guild of America East  —  Business magazine's 40 editorial staffers become 14th media group to join the Writers Guild of America East  —  Joe Ricketts could not stop the trend of media outlets unionizing.  In fact, he may have helped it.
Discussion: Adweek, @bfishbfish and @katie_honan
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 …
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.
Discussion: Macleans.ca and Gothamist
 
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