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Laura McGann / Vox:
Study: male DC journalists reply on Twitter to other male journalists 92% of the time, retweet other men 69% of the time, and 62% of follows are other men — A new study reveals why female journalists are so much less influential on Twitter than men. — Anyone that follows Beltway Twitter knows it's …
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix fires PR head Jonathan Friedland; CEO Hastings memo: his use of the N-word at least twice “showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity” — In lengthy internal memo, CEO Reed Hastings addressed letting go top communications executive Jonathan Friedland …
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Glenn Beck's TheBlaze laid off more than a dozen employees as negotiations to sell the site to backers of The Daily Wire broke down — Conservative media firebrand Glenn Beck's multimedia empire TheBlaze appears to be on its last legs after another round of layoffs and after a prospective high-profile buyer lost interest.
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@maxwelltani, @hc_richardson and Mediaite
TechCrunch:
Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited, a $2.99/month subscription service of curated content for kids, launches on iOS — Five and half years after it launched, one of the more popular apps for kids' reading and entertainment has finally arrived on the iOS. Amazon FreeTime Unlimited …
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Rob Price / Business Insider:
Instagram deleted a 2017 ProPublica video identifying members of a violent white supremacist group citing “Community Guidelines” violation, later reinstated — - Instagram has taken down a video posted by news outlet ProPublica, saying it was in violation of its rules.
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@lhwaldron and Gizmodo
Jonathan Handel / Hollywood Reporter:
Study: 16% of 651 films released theatrically in 2017 were directed by women, 12% of films with $250K+ box office take directed by women, 10% by people of color — “Every aspect of the entire system disadvantages women and people of color," charged guild president Thomas Schlamme.
Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:
Instagram's IGTV had a chance to learn from the embarrassments of YouTube and Facebook, like conspiracy videos, but seems to have largely ignored the lessons — Its new video venture seems ill-prepared to weed out inappropriate content. — Facebook Inc. didn't learn from the last two years of internet scandals.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook has hired a team that will try to spot vulnerabilities in its systems before bad actors exploit them, to prevent abuses like 2016 US elections debacle — Silicon Valley's giants are looking for future crises before they happen. — In an attempt to spot vulnerabilities in its system …
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Gizmodo, @dcwoodruff, @kantrowitz, The Hill, @facebook and @kantrowitz, more at Techmeme »
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Amid national furor over Trump admin's policy of separating children from their families, White House has not held a press briefing since Monday — It has been a busy week at the White House as questions continue to swirl around the family separation policy at our nation's southern border …
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The Guardian and Fox News
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
IFCN survey of 42 fact-checking projects: vast majority are small, new, digital-first nonprofits or academic initiatives; 62% had budgets under $100K in 2017 — ROME — Snopes. Full Fact. Chequeado. Teyit. Africa Check. — Chances are, no matter where you are …
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@mantzarlis and @poynter
Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet:
Tumblr has agreed to cooperate with South Korean authorities to better monitor illegal porn distribution, Korea Communications Standards Commission says — Tumblr has agreed to better monitor illegal porn distribution with South Korean authorities after initially refusing to do so.
Wall Street Journal:
How tensions between Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and 21st Century Fox Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch have complicated Comcast's efforts to buy 21st Century Fox — Tensions between Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and 21st Century Fox's Rupert Murdoch have complicated Comcast's pursuit of the biggest media deal in years
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