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Sources: Great Hill Partners is in exclusive talks with Univision to buy Gizmodo Media Group for an undisclosed sum — Deal would include websites such as Gizmodo, Deadspin, Lifehacker and Jezebel — Great Hill Partners is in exclusive talks with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications Inc …
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@onionincunion, @jeremymbarr and @jayrosen_nyu
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook says it is exploring ways to address anti-vaccine misinformation including reducing or removing it from recommendations and demotion in search results — Facebook Inc., under pressure to reduce harmful, misleading and fake content, said it is exploring removing anti-vaccine information …
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@rmac18, The Daily Beast, schiff.house.gov, CNN, @jayrosen_nyu, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Week, Fast Company, Fortune, The Hill, Business Insider and The Verge
James Vincent / The Verge:
OpenAI says it won't release the dataset behind GPT-2, its new text generator algorithm that can write, translate, and summarize text, due to fears of misuse — OpenAI's researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed with.
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The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Business Insider, @enkiv2, Fast Company, Gizmodo, @techreview, @jimwaterson and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
Kim Lyons / Columbia Journalism Review:
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh files complaint with National Labor Review Board, claiming Post-Gazette's publisher threatened to fire staff for union activity — On Saturday night, February 9, John Robinson Block—publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of more than a dozen news outlets owned …
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New York Times, @cjr, @cjr, CNN, @michaelafuoco, @jsilverpg, @jamieson, @pgnewsguild and @byrosenberg
Todd Spangler / Variety:
SEC filing: Spotify paid €300M to buy Gimlet Media and Anchor; Spotify told investors it expects to spend $400M-$500M in total on podcast acquisitions in 2019 — - After Machinima Shutdown, Rooster Teeth Revives ‘Inside Gaming’ and Rescues Other Machinima Shows
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TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Critics say India's proposed internet rules, which could let Indian officials compel companies to remove posts, violate constitutional free speech protections — NEW DELHI — India's government has proposed giving itself vast new powers to suppress internet content, igniting a heated battle …
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@sflcin and @histoftech
Gwilym Mumford / The Guardian:
BBC says This Week, its late night politics show hosted by Andrew Neil, will conclude this summer after 16 years on the air — Lighthearted late-night politics show will conclude in the summer when its current series ends — The BBC's long-running late-night politics show This Week …
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The Times & The Sunday Times, BBC, @mrharrycole, @mattkmoore, @hackneyabbott, @iaindale, @afneil and Guido Fawkes
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Adam Jacobson / Radio & Television Business Report:
Apollo Global Management acquires majority stake in Cox Media Group's TV arm; earlier report placed the value at $3B — DAYTON, OHIO — On January 26, RBR+TVBR overheard a conversation involving a Cox Media Group Ohio employee who noted “we should know in a couple of weeks” what their fate would be …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Bloomberg, CNBC, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, @adamrjacobson1 and @b_fung
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Inside.com, which has raised $2.6M from SeedInvest and others, hit $1.1M in revenue in 2018 with 750K subscribers and a newsletter open rate of around 40% — Surprise: Subscribers to a nerdy bitcoin newsletter are just about as engaged as subscribers to a nerdy local newsletter.
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@jason and @niemanlab
Nobel Women's Initiative:
The Nobel Women's Initiative launches InterviewHer, a global database to connect media to women experts on conflict, peace, and security — Ottawa—February 13, 2019. — The Nobel Women's Initiative today launched InterviewHer, a global database that helps connect media to a wide range …
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Sources: Facebook is working with some media partners to test connecting third-party ad tech, like Google Ad Manager, to Watch — Media partners could use Google and other ad tech to control advertising on the video service — Facebook wants to be friendlier to TV networks …
Melynda Fuller / MediaPost:
Hearst Magazines names its first chief data officer, Mike Smith, in charge of ad products, digital ad operations, and data capabilities — In its latest move as a data-driven content company, Hearst Magazines has appointed Mike Smith its first Chief Data Officer. — Smith will report to Hearst Magazines President Troy Young.
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
NPD BookScan: Jill Abramson's Merchants of Truth sold just over 2,800 print copies in its first week of publication, following plagiarism controversy — NEW YORK (AP) — Days of relentless publicity, much of it unwanted, did not lead to many sales for Jill Abramson's “Merchants of Truth.”
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@tomgara and @maxwelltani
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