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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Q&A with New York Review of Books Editor Ian Buruma who defends running Jian Ghomeshi's piece and why the allegations against Ghomeshi aren't Buruma's “concern” — Well before the world associated the phrase #MeToo with sexual assault, Jian Ghomeshi was a popular Canadian radio host and musician.
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Frida Garza / Jezebel:
The New York Review of Books publishes a story by former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi on his experience being accused and controversially acquitted of sexual assault — On Friday, the New York Review of Books published “Reflections on a Hashtag,” the cover story for its October print issue …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Study: Facebook engagement for sites identified as publishing fake news dropped by 50%+ between 2016 election and July 2018, while shares on Twitter kept rising — Facebook's efforts to reduce misinformation in its news feed since the 2016 election have opened the company to all manner of criticism …
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@willoremus, @mantzarlis and @mosseri, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
YouTube's ninth most-watched channel, Little Baby Bum, founded in 2011 by a UK couple, has been bought by Moonbug agency, with one price estimate of £6M-£8.5M — One of YouTube's most popular brands has been bought by a trio of entertainment-industry veterans with ties to Disney …
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@business, @pkafka, Mashable and Tubefilter
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jemele Hill, who drew criticism when she called Trump a white supremacist on Twitter in 2017, confirms she is leaving ESPN — Jemele Hill, the outspoken sports journalist and commentator who took sparked a massive controversy for the Walt Disney-owned cable network when she called President Donald Trump a …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Transcript of conversation between Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Jay Rosen: on news, impartiality, abuse, misinformation, bad actors, and hiring an ombudsman — Dorsey says “we have definitely been gamed” by bad-faith actors and doesn't expect that Twitter will ever build a “perfect antidote.”
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@jack, The Verge, @ggreenwald, @caseynewton, @jayrosen_nyu, Slate and Deadline
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
By handing off power of fact-checking to third parties and providing no guidance, Facebook opens the door to battles like ThinkProgress vs The Weekly Standard — ThinkProgress vs. The Weekly Standard. Here's a mini-saga that encompasses many of the things we argue about now.
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@mantzarlis, Slate, @laurahazardowen, The Intercept and Popular Information
Max Mason / Financial Review:
Sources: News Corp is cutting about 30 editorial jobs across its Australian titles, including The Australian, the Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph — Share via Email — Post on facebook wall — Post to Linkedin — News Corporation is taking the axe to its Australian publications …
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Sonia Elks / Reuters:
IWMF and TrollBusters survey of ~600 female journalists: two-thirds face online harassment or threats, nine in ten see a rise in physical and online abuse — LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female journalists are facing a “relentless” barrage of attacks and harassment …
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Brian Barrett / Wired:
A look at The Weather Channel's “green screen immersive studio”, which allows it to bring extreme weather to life through immersive demonstrations — AT A CERTAIN point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics. A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.
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Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Tencent-backed content aggregator Qutoutiao closes up 128% after raising $84M in its IPO, the biggest first-day increase of a significant US IPO in 2018 — - ‘Fun Headlines’ news aggregator rises as much as 191 percent — Downsized, bottom-range IPO leads to biggest first-day rise
New York Times:
A look at how game apps track kids' data as a lawsuit accuses Google and Twitter ad businesses, and a popular app maker, of violating children's privacy law — A lawsuit by New Mexico's attorney general accuses a popular app maker, as well as online ad businesses run by Google and Twitter, of violating children's privacy law.
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