Mediagazer: 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 (Meena Lee/The Idea)

11:20 AM ET, June 20, 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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Deadline, Consequence of Sound, Ad Age, TVLine, Fortune, Contemptor, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Adweek, Mashable, The Wrap, IndieWire, @gdanielholloway, The Wrap and The A.V. Club

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.

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

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CNBC:

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 …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, MediaPost and io9

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Endemol Shine, the TV producer of Black Mirror that is co-owned by 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management, has hired bankers to pursue a sale

Discussion: Deadline

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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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, @sulliview, @nora_kelly, @mediaite, CNNMoney and Media Matters for America

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: Wall Street Journal, AdExchanger, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, The Drum and @aexm, more at Techmeme »

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 — Facebook wants to help connect brands to creators so they can work out sponsored content and product placement deals, even if it won't be taking a cut.

Discussion: Facebook, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: RAPPLER, What's New in Publishing, FierceCable, Facebook Media, Gizmodo, Fortune, Tubefilter, Digiday, Business Insider, The Verge, VentureBeat and Adweek, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: TechCrunch and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, more at Techmeme »

Jack Shafer / Politico:

Ali Watkins deserves a reprimand if she slept with a source, and a second chance, given that male reporters have escaped punishment over the years — Why shouldn't reporters have sex with the people they cover? — The answer, everybody will tell you, is orgasmically obvious …

Discussion: @erikwemple, @hollyvhays, @kantrowitz, @byrontau, @blowryontv and BuzzFeed

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed:

Medium and GitHub scrub posts and database containing ICE employee LinkedIn data citing rules against doxxing; Twitter suspends bot tweeting info from database — Medium and GitHub say posting the LinkedIn data of a targeted group of employees constitutes doxing. The artist who made the database disagrees.

Discussion: @ceodonovan, @beschizza, @rienzokennedy, Gizmodo, @corporacallosa, @joftius, The Verge, @a_man_in_black, @mmasnick, @ceodonovan, @joemacare, @generativist, @ceodonovan, @joftius and New York Times, more at Techmeme »

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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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 …

Discussion: Variety, Fast Company and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Google's Digital News Initiative partners with the UK's Centre for Investigative Journalism to run 20 free workshops on using online tools — Google has been the target of many an investigative journalism scoop, but today in the UK it's sitting on the other side of the table.

Discussion: The Keyword and The Centre for …

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
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Pew Research Center:
Study: US adults who are politically aware, digitally savvy, and trust reporting are more likely to identify factual statements in media

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Will Robinson / Jacksonville Business Journal:
Newsroom organizers at the Florida Times-Union, bought by GateHouse in 2017, announce their intent to unionize with the NewsGuild-CWA

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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Speaking at Cannes, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson praised Google for listening to the paper's concerns but said Facebook was “difficult”

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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
IAB study: 65% of viewers said they intend to watch the World Cup via livestream, versus just 71% who said they would view it on television

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

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Antitrust experts argue several major acquisitions have given Facebook and Google dominance over the ad market, with the DoJ failing to regulate them

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