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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram debuts IGTV, a hub for high-profile creators, and says it will begin letting users upload videos up to an hour long, up from previous one minute limit — Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company announced …
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Walt Disney Company has raised its bid for 21st Century Fox's film and TV assets to $38 a share, up from $28 in December — - The new bid rivals Comcast's $35 a share all-cash bid last week, in a deal that would be valued at $65 billion. — Fox's Rupert Murdoch said in statement …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: AT&T plans to acquire Otter Media, the streaming video company it co-owns with The Chernin Group, in a deal expected to close this summer — Fresh off its Time Warner acquisition, AT&T has another content deal in the works. — AT&T just spent $85 billion on a media company.
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The Wrap, CNBC and Multichannel News
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU Parliament panel passes copyright measures with final vote to come much later; Article 11 is “link tax”, and Article 13 mandates filtering uploaded content — In a key vote this morning the European Parliament's legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements …
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@eff, Hollywood Reporter, RAIN News, Press Gazette, EDRi, The Hill, The Independent, @devlinhartline, @thehat2 and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Univision issues statement calling on Democrats and Republicans to end practice of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border — Univision strongly criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating the families of undocumented migrants at the U.S. border.
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New York Times, The New York Observer and Mediaite
Kevin Loker / Trust, Media and Democracy:
Media Insight Project study: about a third of people in US personally know a journalist or have been interviewed; 80% of those interviewed say coverage was fair — The American Press Institute released a new study on the relationship between the public and the press.
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American Press Institute, @nwatzman and @mayerjoy
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
ABC News apologizes after showing a chyron for about five seconds falsely stating Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to manslaughter — ABC News apologized on Monday for accidentally reporting that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to five charges of manslaughter.
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@abcnewspr, Fox News, Variety, Mediaite, @brianstelter and iMediaEthics
Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
Apple gives a multi-series order to the nonprofit Sesame Workshop for a slate of live-action and animated children's programs, not including Sesame Street — - Dakota Fanning Tells Freddie Highmore ‘Alienist’ Is ‘One of the Greatest Experiences of My Life’ — Apple is getting into children's programming.
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The Wrap, Deadline, Broadcasting & Cable, Stock Market News …, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and The A.V. Club
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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Vox, EW.com, NPR, USA Today, The Texas Tribune, @benbrown, @sarahblackstock, @indicanthony, @georgeprof, @disruptia, @nicolasnova, Snopes.com, CBS News, @marklittlenews, @evanchill, @healthcommphd, @charliebeckett, @urilf, @rojospinks and @adriennelaf
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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
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, Media Matters for America, The Hill, @sulliview, @nora_kelly, @mediaite and CNNMoney
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Telegraph, Guardian, and News UK announce a digital ad sales venture, The Ozone Project, to launch in fall, giving direct access to over 39.4M users — Three leading UK national news publishers have combined forces to create a jointly-owned advertising platform which they hope will build a …
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campaignlive.co.uk, GroupM, The Guardian, The Drum and Digiday
Meena Lee / The Idea:
Interview with Medium's VP of editorial, Siobhan O'Connor, formerly executive editor of TIME magazine, on the company's growing editorial team and strategy — Formerly the executive editor of TIME Magazine, Siobhan O'Connor came to Medium following Time Inc.'s sale to Meredith in February.
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Financial news network Cheddar has acquired free daily newsletter Need2Know, which covers tech, sports, business, and more and has 350K+ subscribers — Business news channel Cheddar announced it has acquired Need2Know, a free daily newsletter with more than 350,000 U.S. subscribers covering business …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Source: Fox News' website is downplaying coverage of child separation at the US-Mexico border because traffic to stories about it has been low — With dwindling traffic on child-immigrant stories, the right's most influential news site downplays the issue.
Patricia Hernandez / The Verge:
Theater chain AMC announces AMC Stubs A-List, a MoviePass-like service that lets patrons watch three films a week for $19.95/month — It'll be twice as expensive, but it boasts fewer restrictions than MoviePass — The largest theater chain in America has announced that it will now offer …
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Taiwan-based news startup The News Lens says it raised a $3M-$4M Series C to finance its international expansion and has 9M unique monthly readers — The News Lens launched in 2013 as an independent news site for Taiwanese readers disenchanted with the country's tabloid-ridden media.
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