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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
John Amato, CEO of Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media, leaves after probe into whether he derailed stories on harassment claims against record exec Charlie Walk — Investigation looked into John Amato's friendship with record executive Charlie Walk — John Amato has stepped down as CEO …
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BBC:
UK government clears a proposed deal for 21st Century Fox to buy Sky if it sells Sky News — The UK government has cleared a proposed deal for Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox to buy Sky. — The British broadcaster has been the subject of a fierce bidding war between Fox and US cable giant Comcast.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook will roll out news shows for Facebook Watch from July 16, with the lineup including shows from CNN, Fox News, Quartz, Bloomberg, Univision, ATTN:, Mic — Facebook will launch a slate of video shows on its video platform, Watch, on July 16. — Why it matters: The tech giant …
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Facebook Watch, @juddlegum, @katieglueck, Slate, The Wrap, Tubefilter, @lpolgreen, Engadget, @newsmary, @mcclatchy, @xeni, @cwarzel and @kevinroose, more at Techmeme »
Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Next week, YouTube will roll out Copyright Match, which scans uploaded videos and notifies original creators with 100K+ subscribers if a video is a copy — YouTube is releasing a tool for creators that checks to see if their videos are being stolen. Now, every time a video is uploaded to YouTube …
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YouTube Creator Blog, MediaNama, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Engadget, Tubefilter, AndroidHeadlines.com and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Dan Rather, who found a large Facebook audience and appeared on digital newscasts for The Young Turks and Mark Cuban after leaving CBS in 2006 — Editor's note: This is the second interview in an occasional series of journalists on journalism. Read the first, with Seymour Hersh.
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@tanzinavega, @dougfisher, @samwhitmore, @cmorgantv, @audreygray and @martypieratt, Thanks:@steverubel
Alexsandra Canedo / International Center …:
TruthBuzz, an ICFJ effort to spread fact checking, to embed fellows in Brazil's Aos Fatos, Nigeria's Africa Check and Daily Trust, and Raleigh's News & Observer — One of Brazil's largest newspapers, an independent fact-checking organization in Nigeria, and a McClatchy newspaper …
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@politifact, @politifactnc and @icfj
Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
A look at PressPad, which aims to match people who get journalism internships in London, but can't afford housing, with an industry host — It's a longstanding quandary for aspiring journalists: How can I get housing in the big city for just a few weeks, while I'm paid nothing or close to it?
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@claresambrook, @marcusryder, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Karen Weise / Bloomberg:
Facebook research group Social Science One to offer scholars access to a petabyte of anonymized user data to understand the role of misinformation in elections — An independent research initiative that Facebook Inc. announced in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is launching its first study …
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Wired, @sarahfrier, TechCrunch and @kerrymflynn, more at Techmeme »
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The Weinstein Co. lays off over 20 employees of a remaining staff of 70 two days before it plans to close its $289M bankruptcy sale to Lantern Capital — The Weinstein Co. is laying off more than 20 employees on Wednesday, two days before it closes its $289 million bankruptcy sale to Lantern Capital.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube TV went down during a crucial World Cup match, the second such outage since it went down during an NBA game in May — YouTube TV, Google's internet-delivered subscription TV service, was hit with nationwide outages — right in the middle of the 2018 World Cup semifinal match between England and Croatia.
Reuters:
Sources: Apollo Global Management has approached Nexstar, which owns TV stations that reach nearly 40% of US households, to express interest in acquiring it — (Reuters) - Buyout firm Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N) has approached Nexstar Media Group Inc (NXST.O) …
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Louise Matsakis / Wired:
Twitter says over the next week it will adjust users' follower counts to no longer include locked accounts, dropping Twitter's combined follower count by ~6% — Perhaps a healthier Twitter is one with smaller follower counts—even if that comes as a blow to your ego. That's what the company is hoping, anyway.
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Business Insider, @keithweed, Twitter, Washington Post, New York Times, @benimmo, @wexler, VentureBeat, @nxthompson, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Guardian, more at Techmeme »
Stefanie Fogel / Variety:
Blizzard Entertainment announces exclusive multi-year agreement for live TV coverage of its professional esports league for Overwatch with ESPN and Disney — The Overwatch League quarterfinals start Wednesday, July 11 at 8 p.m. ET and fans can now watch all of the action on ESPN, Disney …
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