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4:05 AM ET, June 25, 2018

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New York Times:
Interviews with about three dozen friends and colleagues of Ali Watkins and James Wolfe reveal tough ethical questions and ongoing concerns over records seizure  —  The pearl bracelet arrived in May 2014, in the spring of Ali Watkins's senior year in college, a graduation gift from a man many years her senior.
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.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Q&A with NYT EVP and Chief Operating Officer Meredith Kopit Levien on GDPR compliance, cutting down on ad tech vendors, and turning a podcast into a TV show  —  The New York Times' top brass and journalists were out in force at the Cannes Lions festival this week to meet with marketing clients and support its ads business.
Discussion: Editor & Publisher
Center for Cooperative Media:
Inside the collaboration by a community newspaper company, investigative nonprofits, and a university to investigate data behind high school sports concussions  —  John Schrag, the executive editor of a medium-sized group of community newspapers in Oregon, had known for a while about an unexamined pool …
Discussion: The Rural Blog
Sam Thielman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Astroturfing of outlets like NYT and WaPo by a group funded by restaurant owners shows the need for journalists to dig deeper while covering activists  —  In editorials and juicy quotes to news organizations across the nation, restaurant workers are speaking up against paying tipped workers a minimum wage.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Study: 8% of UK mobile sessions detected ad blockers, 5% in US, 13% in Germany; Le Monde says 20% of mobile sessions use ad blockers, a rate similar to desktop  —  The mobile ad-blocking threat is growing, albeit slowly.  —  Use of ad-blocking software has largely been a desktop issue …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: App Store, Engadget, VentureBeat and 9to5Mac
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.
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.
 
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Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Amid the national furor over its child separation policy, the White House has not held a press briefing since Monday
Discussion: The Guardian and Fox News
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
Rob Price / Business Insider:
Instagram deleted a 2017 ProPublica video identifying members of a violent white supremacist group citing “Community Guidelines” violation, later reinstated
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM Radio owner Liberty Media pulled proposed $1.16B cash injection for iHeartMedia after iHeartMedia rejected Liberty's ask for a 40% stake in return
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Reddit launches News tab in beta to most iOS users, highlights work from news websites based on user engagement, users can filter categories
Discussion: 9to5Mac