Mediagazer: Study: US adults who are politically aware, digitally savvy, and trust reporting are more likely to identify factual statements in media (Pew Research Center)

10:05 PM ET, June 19, 2018

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Daniel Holloway / Variety:

Modern Family's Steve Levitan revises statement about not re-upping with Fox, says he'll “take some time” to see where studio executives land after Fox sale — “Modern Family” co-creator Steve Levitan reversed course Tuesday after initially saying he would leave Fox …

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:

Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan says he will not be re-upping his contract with 20th Century Fox TV due to the studio's ties with Fox News — UPDATED with Levitan's statement: After Steve Levitan tweeted last night that he was “disgusted” to work for Fox following a controversial statement …

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:

Days after criticizing Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Seth MacFarlane donates $2M to NPR and $500K to NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles — EXCLUSIVE: Days after Seth MacFarlane's outrage over Fox News host Tucker Carlson's suggestion that viewers should discount any other media besides Fox News ignited …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook debuts game-show platform that lets creators add quizzes, polls, and more to live and on-demand video; Facebook tests ability to award prize money — Rather than build its own HQ trivia competitor, Facebook is launching a gameshow platform. Today the company announced a new set …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook launches Brand Collabs search engine to connect brands and creators for sponsoring and product placement deals; Facebook is not currently taking a cut

Discussion: Gizmodo

Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Facebook says it's opening Watch to more types of content, including non-episodic long-form, in bid to capture YouTube stars, and is adding polls, quizzes, more

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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:

NYT agreed not to use audio recordings of an on-the-record interview with Trump advisor Stephen Miller for its podcast The Daily after the White House objected — As the immigration crisis rages on, a key adviser's voice has been hushed. — Bowing to pressure from the White House …

Alex Heath / Cheddar:

Sources: AT&T in talks to acquire AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges; source says AppNexus won't sell for less than $2B — AT&T is in talks to acquire the advertising company AppNexus, Cheddar has learned. — Privately-held AppNexus operates …

Discussion: AdExchanger, @alexeheath, @aexm and @alexeheath, more at Techmeme »

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

When DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told a sheriffs' association, “Don't believe the press”, she was following her boss's lead to discredit the media — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday abandoned precision in bashing media coverage of the Trump administration's immigration policies.

Discussion: Washington Post, Bloomberg, @nora_kelly, The Hill, @sulliview, CNNMoney, Media Matters for America and @mediaite

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:

Dissecting how the US family-separation policy for immigrants became big news after percolating for months as reporters probed and legislators asked questions — How the many-chambered heart of the internet turned the Trump administration's family-separation policy into a different kind of scandal.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Vox Media is folding Racked, the retail and fashion site it acquired in 2013, into a vertical within the Vox website called The Goods — Racked, the retail website that was acquired by Vox Media in 2013, is going to be converted from a standalone website into a vertical that will live within Vox (the website), Axios has learned.

Discussion: @notorioustib, @chavielieber, @chaykak, @voxmediainc, @manymanywords, @racked and Mediawire

K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK:

An overview of the EU's proposed new copyright law that will require internet platforms to automatically filter uploaded content, ahead of Wednesday's vote — A proposed new European copyright law could make memes illegal and threaten the future of the internet as we know it. Time to panic?

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Gizmodo, Techdirt, infowars.com, @_elibaum, The Next Web, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi, @carnage4life, @doctorow, @nppalawyer, @apetimezas, @wireduk and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed:

Twitter, Medium, and GitHub have blocked users from posting information scraped from LinkedIn about ICE employees, saying it violates rules against harassment — Medium and GitHub say posting the LinkedIn data of a targeted group of employees constitutes doxing. The artist who made the database disagrees.

Discussion: Gizmodo, @a_man_in_black, @mmasnick, @ceodonovan, @joftius, @joemacare, @joftius, @generativist, @ceodonovan, @ceodonovan and The Verge

Pew Research Center:

Study: US adults who are politically aware, digitally savvy, and trust reporting are more likely to identify factual statements in media — The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements

Discussion: @gottfriedjeff, The Hill, NPR, @michaelbarthel, @pewjournalism, @kubremner, @jboren4507, @greta, @kabir_here, @brendannyhan, @pewresearch, Trust, Media and Democracy, Poynter, The Next Web, Pew Research Center and Editor & Publisher

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