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Crain's Chicago Business:
Jim Kirk, former editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times, to return to Crain's Chicago Business as publisher and executive editor — Chicago media veteran Jim Kirk returns to Crain's Chicago Business to lead business operations as well as the newsroom. — Jim Kirk, a veteran …
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Media Star, Talking Biz News and @kirkjim12
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says European Union's copyright legislation, Article 13, threatens creators' livelihoods if implemented as proposed — ‘Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs’ — The European Union's contentious copyright directive became a major talking point …
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YouTube Creator Blog, Engadget, CNBC, Mashable, MediaPost, YouTube Blog, The Hill, Axios, TechCrunch, Deadline and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Jared Kushner says that the Trump administration is trying to establish facts around Khashoggi's death, while saying US must work with allies like Saudi Arabia — (CNN)Jared Kushner said Monday he'd advised Mohammed bin Salman to be fully transparent in his investigation of a Saudi journalist's death.
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Washington Post, BBC, @selectedwisdom and @thedailybeast
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The Membership Puzzle Project:
The Membership Puzzle Project launches a $700K fund for projects around the world experimenting with membership-based business models for news — Last year when the Membership Puzzle Project started studying news sites that were working with their supporters for revenue and to benefit their journalism, we heard two themes.
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Nieman Lab, @emgollie, @jayrosen_nyu and @membershippzzle
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
A look at former BBC News director James Harding's Tortoise Media, a member-funded news organization targeting a younger audience that's set to launch next year — James Harding has said his move into “slow news” with new venture Tortoise Media was the result of a “lesson learned” …
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The Drum, The Guardian, @broderick, @jimwaterson, @emilybell and Kickstarter
Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Study: from the end of 2014 to the middle of 2018, 491 IRA-linked accounts sent 12K+ tweets about the NFL or anthem; 87% of partisan tweets leaned conservative — Russia-linked Twitter accounts sent more than 12,000 tweets about the NFL or the anthem in their alleged efforts to sow discord
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@bachscore, @bomani_jones and Awful Announcing
CNN:
Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with Infowars, some for helping Infowars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban — New York (CNN Business)Twitter on Monday removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with the fringe right-wing media organization InfoWars, a company spokesperson told CNN.
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TechCrunch, @nickmon1112, @maggiejordanacn, @oliverdarcy and The Hill, more at Techmeme »
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The Associated Press deleted a tweet Sunday evening which called a large caravan of migrants from Central America a ragged “army” — “Some of the members of this 'army' are quite literally malnourished babies," says BuzzFeed's David Mack — The Associated Press deleted …
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Washington Post, Mediaite, CNN, @davidgura, @ericontrarian, @davidgura, @politicalelle, @ksieff, @profmjcleveland, The Daily Caller, Associated Press and iMediaEthics
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix says it's going to raise $2B through debt securities, the sixth time in less than four years it's raising $1B+ through bonds — Netflix is again going to debt markets to fund its enormous appetite for content, announcing plans Monday to raise $2 billion in financing through debt securities.
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PR Newswire, Reuters, TechSpot, Telegraph, Fortune, Ad Age, TechCrunch and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Report: warrantless electronic device searches at the US border have tripled in three years; journalists say border searches impact ability to protect sources — Secondary screenings of journalists crossing U.S. borders risk undermining press freedom as Custom and Border Protection agents search devices …
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@superanne, News & Advocacy, @aaschapiro, @robertmmahoney and ACLU
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Piper Jaffray: Netflix and YouTube account for 70.7% of teens' daily video consumption in the US, while cable TV now accounts for just 16.4% — - Netflix and YouTube rule the daily video consumption of teens, according to a new survey by Piper Jaffray. — Cable TV has seen …
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The Wrap and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
BBC:
YouTube says it will spend $20M as part of its YouTube Learning initiative to develop educational content that will be hosted on a new Learning channel — YouTube will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content on the platform, the company has announced.