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Lorna Fraser / IPSO:
UK study: coverage of youth suicides is disproportionate to the number of incidents and is reported in a more sensational way compared to other age groups — In the second in our series of blogs with Samaritans, Lorna Fraser, Executive Lead of their Media Advisory Service …
Washington Post:
Source: Twitter has been suspending 1M+ accounts per day in recent months, more than double its rate from October, in its fight against disinformation — SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts …
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Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with CBC's Connie Walker on growing interest in and representation of Indigenous people, how specific cases can tell bigger stories, and more — Reporter Connie Walker. Photo courtesy of CBC. — Amid reports that the American government has forcibly separated children …
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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
As Amazon's ad business surges, some advertisers worry they are giving it the data and market power it needs to eventually run them out of business — Amazon has already become something of a corporate boogeyman — and now it could be bringing its industry disruption to advertising.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Univision is exploring a sale of Fusion Media Group, which includes Gizmodo, Deadspin, Lifehacker, The Root, and a stake in The Onion — Unit includes digital properties such as Gizmodo and Deadspin — Univision Communications Inc. is exploring a sale of Fusion Media Group …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Univision wants to cut 15% of staff across Onion, Inc., and is set to begin buyout negotiations with the sites' editorial union
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Peter Caranicas / Variety:
ScriptBook claims it can predict target audiences and box office outcomes for films, and even help improve gender parity, using AI trained on 6,500 scripts — Script analysis company says computers can be more successful than humans in greenlighting projects
David Beard / Poynter:
Jillian Jorgensen, City Hall bureau chief of New York Daily News, explains how her reporting prompted a ruling that Trump pay $48K more in taxes for 2018-2019 — Jillian Jorgensen made a difference this week. — Questions by Jorgensen, the City Hall bureau chief of the New York Daily News …
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Music Business Worldwide:
Tencent says it has received approval from Hong Kong stock exchange for an IPO of its Tencent Music Entertainment subsidiary in US — Chinese media giant Tencent has confirmed that Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) is set to be spun-off via a public listing in the United States.
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Gary Regenstreif / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the projects supported by Press Start, a crowdfunding platform for investigative journalism in countries with little press freedom — Wendy Funes. — Wendy Funes was poring over judicial records when she discovered that the remains of human fetuses and newborns had been found in an indigenous area of her native Honduras.
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Seb Joseph / Digiday:
Formula One is in talks to launch its F1 channel on Amazon Prime in countries where broadcasters don't have exclusive rights — Formula One is in talks to launch the F1 TV channel on Amazon Prime, which could potentially open it up to more than 100 million subscribers over time.
Kaitlin Benz / CNET:
Netflix to end users' ability to post new reviews July 30 and remove existing written reviews mid-August, will keep thumbs up and down system — Soon, it'll be a little harder for you to tell everyone what you thought of Marvel's The Avengers. — Netflix is removing a desktop-only feature …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
News UK says The Times and The Sunday Times now have 500,000 paid subscribers combined, with digital-only subscriptions growing 20% year-over-year to 255,000 — The Times and Sunday Times now have a combined 500,000 subscribers, with digital subscriptions outnumbering print for the first time.
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