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12:55 PM ET, June 27, 2018

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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:   Source: Fox News host Sean Hannity has been lobbying Trump to hire Bill Shine as White House communications director for several months
Will Oremus / Slate:
Following changes to Facebook News Feed, Slate's traffic dropped 87% from 28M in January 2017 to 4M in May 2018  —  The social giant is retreating from the news business.  It's been a painful transition for publications that had come to depend on it—including Slate.
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Trey Williams / The Wrap:   Walt Disney Co. has won approval from the US Department of Justice in its $71.3B acquisition of Fox's film and TV entertainment assets
Sridhar Ramaswamy / The Keyword:
Google rebrands AdWords as Google Ads, consolidates enterprise tools as Google Marketing Platform, and unifies publisher monetization tools as Google Ad Manager  —  We launched AdWords nearly 18 years ago with a simple goal—to make it easier for people to connect online with businesses.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Sources: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dined with and consulted Ted Cruz, Mercedes Schlapp, Sean Hannity, and others to assuage complaints of liberal bias  —  Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms — and sought to rile voters …
Davis Richardson / The New York Observer:
When asked for comment on stories, Milo tells reporters he can't wait for “vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight”  —  Milo Yiannopoulos has started issuing reporters threatening messages when asked to comment for stories.  —  “I can't wait for the vigilante squads …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Facebook says users who saw subscription offers from news publishers inside Instant Articles were 17% more likely to subscribe than those who saw mobile links  —  Eight months after Facebook started testing subscription sales within news publishers' Instant Articles pages …
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Selina Wang / Bloomberg:
Twitter to require email or phone number confirmation for new accounts, use ML to take action on spammy accounts, add warning on accounts behaving suspiciously  —  - Platform will require new accounts to confirm email or phone  — Twitter will place warning sign on suspicious accounts
Dan Taylor-Watt / About the BBC:
BBC Sounds, an app which brings together BBC radio, music, and podcasts into one place, is now available from Apple, Google, and Amazon app stores  —  Head, BBC iPlayer & BBC Sounds  —  Over the past year or so we've talked a lot about how we need to reinvent the BBC for a new generation.
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
A look at Facebook's struggle with differentiating between legitimate political campaigns and disinformation ahead of the Mexican election next week  —  — This spring, a doctored image claiming that the wife of the leading Mexican presidential candidate was the granddaughter …
Roberto Lovato / Columbia Journalism Review:
News outlets have covered the child separation crisis at the border as if it's a new scandal, failed to quote experts, and reported stories without context  —  Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas.
Discussion: iMediaEthics and ThinkProgress
 
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Graham Rapier / Business Insider:
Netflix's growth has slowed, but analysts say it could reach 90M domestic subscribers in the next decade; shares have risen 97% since start of 2018
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Excerpt of new Sumner Redstone biography, detailing the Redstone and Philippe Dauman meeting that set in motion the fight for Redstone's empire after his death
Ben Munson / FierceCable:
Cisco announces it is working with Disney's StudioLAB, an innovation space at its Burbank studios, on remote collaboration, security, and IP-based video tech
Discussion: Variety and VentureBeat
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Dan Ingram, a popular disc jockey who worked at New York radio stations for around four decades, died Sunday aged 83
Discussion: NPR
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Spotify hires Dawn Ostroff as chief content officer, to join in August; Ostroff had been president of Condé Nast Entertainment, the publisher's video studio
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Sony is shutting down Sony Crackle, its ad-supported video service, in Canada on June 28
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Trevor Timm / The Intercept:
Reality Winner pleads guilty to violating the Espionage Act, agreeing to 63 months in prison, the longest known term for a violation linked to a media leak
Nicole Friedman / Wall Street Journal:
Iowa-based Lee Enterprises will operate BH Media's newspapers under a five-year deal for $5M/year and a cut of earnings over $34M; BH Media CEO to step down
 

 
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

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Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live
 
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