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Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Richard Parsons resigns as CBS board member and chairman, citing complications in his fight with myeloma; board appoints Strauss Zelnick as interim chairman — Richard Parsons has resigned from the CBS Corp board of directors, including his role as interim chairman which he undertook …
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New York Times, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, @josiefiorda, @wsj, @businessinsider, CNN, The Daily Beast, Roland Martin and The Wrap
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.
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
New York Times:
Detecting fake news using AI will require a number of major advances far beyond today's AI, which just flags word patterns and operates at a keyword level — At least not for decades to come. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. — Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neural science.
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@carnage4life, @bendee983, Fortune, @noelsharkey and @went1955, 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, The Daily Caller, @ericontrarian, @davidgura, @davidgura, @politicalelle, @ksieff and @profmjcleveland
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Study: of 1,220 Twitter users, Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative; conservative bots didn't change Democrats — Echo chambers aren't what's polarizing America. — There's a simple story for how the media is driving political polarization.
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@ezraklein, @ezraklein, @jayvanbavel, @fawfulfan, @adamjohnsonnyc, @chris_bail, @davidklion and @cruickshank
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
UK study: poorer people consume less news than the wealthy and are less likely to go directly to news sites; no brand among 32 had significantly more poor users — News is more unevenly distributed in the UK than income is, according to new research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
To fight “fake news”, news outlets should ban reporters from doing anything on social media beyond sharing stories; snark and blatant opinion reduce trust — While speaking at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, I was asked by several students how to restore faith and trust in media.
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Jordan Green / HuffPost:
How Big League Politics, owned by political operative Reilly O'Neal, fueled tensions over an NC Confederate statue and fed a Charlottesville conspiracy theory — Patrick Howley's Big League Politics is for people who find Breitbart too reasonable. And it's just getting started.
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@jordangreentcb, @elimeye and @eric_ginsburg
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Brazilian media outlets owned by a far-right billionaire are being used to intimidate journalists critical of the leading presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro — The highly likely ascension to power of far-right extremist Jair Bolsonaro is already unleashing a climate in which journalists …
Michael McGowan / The Guardian:
Australian actor Geoffrey Rush testifies on first day of two-week defamation trial against Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph, over stories alleging misconduct — Oscar-winning Australian actor says front-page story published by Murdoch-owned Nationwide News made him sick to his stomach
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Associated Press
Sky News:
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will reveal “in all its nakedness” how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died at the Saudi consulate — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will reveal “in all its nakedness” how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died at the Saudi consulate.
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Rita Katz / Wired:
Research shows ISIS and al-Qaeda have shifted away from YouTube for disseminating propaganda following the platform's 2017 crackdown against extremist content — BEFORE MOST PEOPLE even knew that terrorist outreach was happening online, YouTube was a top recruitment venue for jihadi terrorist groups.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, more at Techmeme »
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