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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Quartz AI Studio receives $249,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to create articles using AI, expects to work on six stories in 2019 — Quartz has used artificial intelligence technology to help it promote articles through its AI-enabled chatbots. Now the publication is looking …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Publishers gear up to lobby for the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act so they can jointly bargain with tech platforms without violating antitrust law — The news industry is readying a lobbying push with a straightforward, but audacious request: Please let us collude against Google and Facebook.
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The White House Correspondents' Association announces that writer and biographer Ron Chernow will headline its 2019 dinner — The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is pleased to announce that Ron Chernow, one of the most eminent biographers of American presidents and statesmen …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Journalists can avoid spreading Trump's infectious lies via headlines and tweets by abstaining from amplifying or by adding context — Journalists have become complicit in spreading the president's falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Here's how they can do better. — Staff writer at The Atlantic
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@dangillmor, @rmchase, @jcolman, @jeffgelles, @bgrueskin, @lrrthomas, @timobrien, @errollouis, @chrislu44, Ezra Klein and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the future of WikiTribune, which was designed to let anyone contribute and edit news stories but has used up its initial crowdfunding funds and grants — Jimmy Wales in 2008, uploaded to Flickr by Joi Ito — It's been almost a year since the launch of WikiTribune …
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@mathewi, @transscribe, @cjr, @mathewi, @lauraelizdavis and Charles Michio Turner
Robyn Caplan / Data & Society:
Analysis of the tradeoffs between three content moderation approaches: small-scale artisanal, volunteer-based/community-reliant, and automated/industrial — Artisanal, Community-Reliant, and Industrial Approaches — In Content or Context Moderation?, Data & Society Affiliate Robyn Caplan draws …
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Nieman Lab, @zephoria, @datasociety, @janethaven and @datasociety
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Pandora Premium comes to Amazon's Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show, offering the ability to request single songs, whole albums, and custom playlists — Pandora is bringing its paid premium tier to Amazon's Echo speakers. The Oakland, Calif.-based music service announced Monday that owners of Amazon's Echo …
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Pandora Blog, TechCrunch, Fortune, RAIN News, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge and Music Business Worldwide
Middle East Eye:
Source: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave King Salman and MBS a “roadmap” to help shield themselves from the Khashoggi scandal — US Secretary of State gave Mohammed bin Salman a roadmap to insulate himself from the scandal, a senior Saudi source tells MEE
Tyler Fisher / Source:
Politico details and open sources Civic, a system for modeling and publishing election-centric civic data — Our new, highly flexible system is midterms-tested and ready for your contributions — If you work in a newsroom or with any civic data project, you might have a need to manage election data.
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Interview with Aaron Samuels, cofounder and COO of Blavity, which closed a $6.5M Series A in June and reaches 7M readers per month, focused on black millennials — - Aaron Samuels is cofounder and chief operating officer of Blavity, the LA media upstart focused on African-American millennials, and he is a man of many talents.
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@poetryaaron and @rrhoover
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
BuzzFeed is debuting a membership model, offering exclusive newsletters and content for $5/month, as CEO Peretti suggests site could merge with rival publishers — Jonah Peretti, the chief executive, says his company could eventually merge with other online publishers in order …
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Marty Swant / Adweek:
iHeart, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, acquires programmatic ad startup Jelli to expand its digital ad options — Jelli is coming in-house — iHeartMedia is acquiring the programmatic advertising startup Jelli to help it expand its digital advertising capabilities.
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