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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: as Verizon execs remain wary about sharing user data with Oath and ad growth fails to take off, Tim Armstrong weighs leaving as early as October — Media executive combined Yahoo and AOL but struggled to marry Verizon's wireless customer data with online advertising
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BuzzFeed:
Twitter permanently suspends Infowars and Alex Jones' accounts, saying they violate “abusive behavior” rules, will suspend other accounts he registers or uses — “We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy …
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
By publishing the anonymous op-ed, NYT changes its position in democracy, forfeits its job of holding power to account, and becomes complicit in own corruption — Let's get the obvious points out of the way first: the anonymous Op-Ed published by the Times on Wednesday was a ploy by someone …
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Michael Burke / The Hill:
White House slams the NYT for creating a “wild obsession with the identity” of the anonymous op-ed author; Sanders urges people to call NYT to ask who source is — The White House on Thursday slammed The New York Times for creating a “wild obsession with the identity” …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The NYT's decision to publish an anonymous op-ed was neither “gutless” as the president has said, nor a crucial public service, but it was newsworthy — Was the New York Times's decision to publish a mystery op-ed piece describing an organized resistance inside the Trump administration …
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is named new director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, succeeding David Levy, who is stepping down after 10 years — Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen has been appointed Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Alan Rusbridger …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
New “popular film” Oscar category is to be scrapped by the Academy and six to eight categories to be moved to commercial breaks in 2019 — LOS ANGELES — The most unpopular move the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have ever made was reversed on Thursday …
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New York Times:
Study of videos on fatal stabbing in Germany found a network of ~650 conspiracy or far-right videos; YouTube consistently led news users toward extremist videos — CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official …
Bennett Bennett / The Drum:
Interview with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on fake news, ad products, algorithms, inspiration, and having a strong identity — Flipboard, the news curation platform, has aggregated stories from The New York Times to Vanity Fair to The Drum on mobile and its web client for over eight years.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fullscreen founder and CEO George Strompolos steps down to move to an advisory role after AT&T secures full ownership of Fullscreen parent Otter Media — George Strompolos, founder and CEO of Fullscreen, is stepping down as chief exec to move into an advisory role …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Playboy CEO, Ben Kohn, says he plans to make the magazine a quarterly, walking back earlier comments about ceasing its publication entirely — A defiant time capsule surfaces, smack in the middle of #MeToo country. — Victoria Oliver placed the upright satin rabbit ears atop her blond tresses.
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Aaron Tilley / The Information:
Apple has hired Liz Schimel, a former president of Condé Nast China, whose LinkedIn page lists a July start date and her Apple role as “head of news business” — Apple is beefing up the management of its Apple News product, with the recent hiring of veteran media executive Liz Schimel.
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