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Reuters:
AT&T confirms it will buy AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Monday it would buy online advertisement exchange company AppNexus Inc, less than a month after the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier closed its $85 billion deal …
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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.
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BuzzFeed:
A profile of Jeffrey Rambo, the CBP officer who confronted reporter Ali Watkins, slammed immigrants, and called them “'hyphenated-Americans” — Craft beer, a business partner in the FBI, and “Dear Failure.” — The Customs and Border Protection officer who reportedly tried …
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Apple:
Apple is launching a new 2018 Midterm Elections section in Apple News, offering exclusive features from Washington Post, Axios, and Politico — An Easy Way to Follow the Elections, With Reporting From Trusted Sources Curated by Apple News Editors — Cupertino, California …
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Stewart Clarke / Variety:
Discovery and German TV giant ProSiebenSat.1 have invited German broadcasters to join their new streaming service and compete with Netflix — Discovery and German TV giant ProSiebenSat.1 are pushing further into OTT, expanding their joint streaming service and targeting 10 million users within two years.
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Danah Boyd / Medium:
Rebuilding trust in US journalism lies in creating business models that allow local journalism to profit without ROI pressure and are driven by social benefits — Loading... 30:58 — For the second time in a week, my phone buzzed with a New York Times alert, notifying me that another celebrity had died by suicide.
The Guardian:
Brexit donor Arron Banks discussed using private investigators to dig up personal info on then BBC Newsnight Editor Ian Katz following story about his finances — Donor to Leave.EU campaign ‘wanted to find personal stuff’ on BBC Newsnight editor — Arron Banks, who funded Nigel Farage's …
The Daily Beast:
On Sunday, five major shows, including NBC's Meet the Press, had 12 headline guests, yet all were male and only one was Hispanic — After a week dominated by heart-wrenching stories of Hispanic children being separated from their parents at the border, the Sunday show lineup featured... remarkably few Hispanics.
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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.
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Microsoft and Ernst & Young announce blockchain-based content rights and royalties management network, first to be deployed for Microsoft's gaming partners — Blockchain might actually prove helpful for a change — In an effort to demonstrate there are actual uses for blockchain technology …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Fox News contributor David Bossie offered apology on Sunday after he told African-American guest on “Fox & Friends” that he was out of his “cotton picking” mind — “I should have chosen my words more carefully and never used the offensive phrase that I did," says David Bossie in a tweet
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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.
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