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Campbell Brown / Facebook Media:
Facebook extends its Local News Accelerator through the end of the year, launches a $3.5M Membership Accelerator program to help outlets with membership models — Today, we're excited to announce an additional $4.5 million investment in programs that support news publishers.
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Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Les Moonves told CBS board members months ago of an LAPD investigation into an alleged sexual assault; board hired an outside law firm to investigate — CBS board members learned several months ago that the Los Angeles Police Department had investigated an alleged sexual assault …
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Tara Bitran / Variety:
USC School of Cinematic Arts suspends Les Moonves from its board of councilors and says it will discuss further action in October — In light of the recent allegations against Leslie Moonves, the USC School of Cinematic Arts has released a statement announcing its decision to suspend the CBS CEO from their Board of Councilors.
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The New York Times issues a statement standing by Sarah Jeong, its new editorial board hire, after criticisms arise of her old tweets blasting “white people” — The New York Times is facing backlash about its latest hire to its editorial board, Sarah Jeong, after multiple old tweets about …
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Sources: Google is developing a news aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws — Google is developing a news-aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws, part of a plan to re-enter …
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Washington Post:
Activists accuse Facebook of suppressing free speech after it removed an event listing it said was part of a disinformation effort with possible ties to Russia — SAN FRANCISCO — Left-leaning political activists accused Facebook of suppressing free speech when the social media giant removed …
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Matthew Iles / Civil:
Civil delays token sale from August 13 to September 18 and announces daily webinars to explain the token sales process as it seeks consumers, not speculators — I'm sharing an important update today: The CVL token sale will now begin on Tuesday, September 18.
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@mattcoolidge, @mattcoolidge, @digitalnoah, @digitalnoah and @vivian
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
AMC Networks' Q2 revenue rose to $761.3M for profits of $106M, a 3% YoY growth, thanks to shrinking losses at its international operations — AMC Networks said second-quarter profit rose 3% as the owner of cable networks like AMC and IFC narrowed operating losses at its international operations.
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New York Times:
Sources: Condé Nast plans to put Brides, Golf Digest, and W up for sale after losing $120M in 2017 due to a sharp decline in ad revenue from print — Anna Wintour is staying, but the once-plush company behind Vogue and The New Yorker lost $120 million last year.
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Milan Schreuer / New York Times:
Belgian government now requires ~1K journalists living there to pay the €50 cost of the biannual background check of those covering European Council summits — BRUSSELS — Journalists who cover the regular gatherings of the leaders of European Union countries got a rude surprise this week …
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Spotify has removed some episodes of “The Alex Jones Show” for violating policies around hate speech, but the podcast is still available on the service — The music streaming service has been the target of public outrage for carrying Jones's show.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Univision chairman Haim Saban is considering stepping down and would like Tribune CEO Peter Kern to replace him — - Billionaire wants Tribune Media CEO Peter Kern to replace him — Sinclair-Tribune sale woes complicate Saban's sucesssion plan
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Vizio launches WatchFree, a free, ad-supported streaming service powered by Pluto TV that offers access to over 100 channels — Think there are too many streaming services? How about one more? Today, Vizio says it's launching its own streaming service called WatchFree that will be available …
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