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Tim Mak / NPR:
NPR analyzes how 48 Russia-linked Twitter accounts posed as local news sites, posting real local news for years and exploiting Americans' trust in local news — Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news.
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Boing Boing, @craigsilverman, @charlesmartinet, @wgrz_stevebrown, @arictoler, @kylebetts, @k_cimini, @bponsot, @tracylofgrenlee, @wm_bbc and @emkohlman
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: holding company owned by Bustle and Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg wins Gawker in bankruptcy auction, beating Didit Inc; opening bid was $1.13M — Holding company owned by the founder of Bleacher Report and Bustle has been picked as the successful bidder for Gawker
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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 …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC voted 3-1 to begin the process of easing rules on the amount and type of children's programming required from broadcasters — Lone Dem calls it ‘cruel disregard’ for kids — A politically divided FCC has voted 3-1 to launch a revamp of its children's television rules.
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Radio & Television …, Ad Age, Deadline, TechCrunch, @kelceegriffis, @jrosenworcel, Washington Post and Motherboard
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Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
FCC voted to approve controversial changes on how it handles consumer complaints, which some say will further weaken an already weak process — The FCC knows that Americans hate telecoms, and it's doing everything it can to give us reason to hate them more.
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Techdirt, Broadcasting & Cable, Radio & Television …, @jbrodkin, @jbrodkin, Washington Post and @jrosenworcel, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Business Insider columnist Daniella Greenbaum resigns over removal of her post that defended Scarlett Johansson playing the role of a transgender man — Daniella Greenbaum, the Business Insider columnist whose piece defending Scarlett Johansson's upcoming role as a transgender man was removed …
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@dgreenbaum, The Wrap, Fast Company, Talking Biz News, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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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South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune and @oknox
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
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, Adweek, Plagiarism Today, Marketing Land, MediaNama, 9to5Google, 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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@therealjimrich, @maggienyt, New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
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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Reuters and BloombergQuint
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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, hypebot, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Variety and Fortune
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