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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.
Washington Post:
Activists accuse Facebook of suppressing free speech when it removed an event listing it said was part of a disinformation campaign 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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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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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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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
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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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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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 …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The emergence of the gun-loving QAnon conspiracy theorists at a Trump rally is dangerous; Trump should stop the anti-media rhetoric at these rallies — Hostility toward the media at Donald Trump's rallies is nothing new. It infected the presidential campaign and has marred every raucous gathering of supporters since the election.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders used a debunked story about the hunt for bin Laden to disparage media accuracy in Wednesday's press briefing — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders just accused the media of hindering the American government's pursuit of Osama bin Laden just a few years before 9/11.
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