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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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New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Variety, hypebot and Fortune
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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@dougfisher, @tanzinavega, @samwhitmore, @cmorgantv, @audreygray and @martypieratt, Thanks:@steverubel
Reuters:
Sources: Chinese government issues strict directives to state media to minimize coverage of trade war, telling journalists to criticize US government, not Trump — SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China is clearly angry about Washington's hard line on trade, but has controlled coverage of the row in its media …
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@oknox, South China Morning Post, CNBC and Bloomberg
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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Broadcasting & Cable, Reuters and BloombergQuint
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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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Adweek, YouTube Creator Blog, MediaNama, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Engadget, Tubefilter, AndroidHeadlines.com and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Congressman Jordan's tweet about CNN contacting sources exemplifies how legitimate journalistic practices are portrayed as witch hunts for political ends — Should you have any information to share about Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), you can be sure to have a captive audience at one news organization.
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@maggienyt, @therealjimrich, New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
At Facebook event touting its work to combat misinformation, company defends maintaining InfoWars page by saying fake news doesn't violate Community Standards — Parents of Sandy Hook victims sue Alex Jones — Facebook officials struggled on Wednesday to explain why it permits InfoWars …
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@oliverdarcy
Ryan Holiday / The New York Observer:
As the Gawker domain and archives go up for auction on Thursday, a look at the ins and outs of the auction and the site's potential future — On Thursday, July 12, a locker containing the bones of Gawker.com—killed in action, as it were, for its publication of a fully nude sextape …
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 …
Discussion:
@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?
Discussion:
@claresambrook, @marcusryder, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
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) …
Discussion:
Multichannel News and Radio & Television …
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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@drudge_report and CNBC
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