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Max Willens / Digiday:
Medium plans to offer four of its own subscription publications, starting with tech, business, health, and general interest, free to Medium subscribers — One of Medium's first big bets was paying to build magazines that lived on its platform. Last week, the venture-backed publishing platform sent …
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Casey Newton / The Interface:
Pinterest has stopped returning results for searches on vaccinations, differentiating between freedom of speech and freedom of reach — Programming note: The Interface will be off Thursday as I finish up a project that I will share with you next week. — Since the reckoning …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney joins Nestle, Epic Games, and others in pulling ad spending from YouTube following details about a “pedophile ring” in YouTube comments — - YouTube faces criticism for recommending videos of minors — Nestle, Epic Games also among companies stopping ad purchases
Chloe Bryan / Mashable:
A look at “Reply Guys”, a mostly harmless but annoying Twitter phenomenon where one or two men reply to every tweet from a woman
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube says it has terminated 400+ channels and deleted tens of millions of comments in response to concerns about its videos being used to exploit children
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Sam Wolfson / The Guardian:
Dutch historian leaks un-aired video of Fox News host Tucker Carlson cursing and calling him names after accusations of hypocrisy and critique of Fox's agenda — In a heated exchange that was not aired, Rutger Bregman accused Carlson of being a pawn for the Murdochs and Kochs
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen buys Sorenson Media, an addressable TV technology provider and a building block for its new Nielsen Advanced Video Advertising group, for $11.25M — Nielsen thinks it has the pieces in place to finally drive up the scale of addressable TV advertising, targeted based …
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The New York Times Company:
New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger says Trump's use of the phrase “enemy of the people” is encouraging attacks on the press at home and abroad — America's founders believed that a free press was essential to democracy because it is the foundation of an informed, engaged citizenry.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
By hiring Sarah Isgur, CNN is aiming for a both-sides-are-equal type of coverage in a bid to boost its ratings, positioning it between MSNBC and Fox News — A few months before the 2016 presidential election, Sarah Isgur tweeted some advice to Donald Trump: “The only 3 words that should be coming …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN employees raise ethics concerns over CNN's hire of Sarah Isgur, who is moving directly into a managerial role
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Memo: several of CNN's top politics editors, including Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist, say they're thrilled Sarah Isgur is joining the network
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Maylan Studart / TheStreet:
Gannett missed Q4 earnings with revenue of $751M and a net loss of $14.2M, down from $13.6M in 2017; digital advertising represented 48% of total ad revenue — Gannett Co. Inc. (GCI) shares fell nearly 4% on Wednesday morning after the company missed fourth quarter earnings and revenues estimates …
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright in CA after refusing to appear before the UK committee investigating online disinformation — (CNN Business)Mark Zuckerberg is finally coming face to face with a top UK official who'd like to regulate Facebook.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Source: former executive producer of CBS This Morning, Ryan Kadro to join Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's Quibi; Kadro expected to oversee news programming — Ryan Kadro left CBS News several weeks ago, but he isn't leaving the news business. — Kadro, the former executive producer of …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: CBS News is considering moving “CBS Evening News” from its longtime home in NYC to Washington DC and appointing Norah O'Donnell as lead anchor
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Page Six, @bristei, @yashar, CNN, @yashar, @will_bunch, @brianstelter, @maxwelltani, TV Tattle, TVWeek.com, Mediaite and TVNewser
BuzzFeed News:
Investigation finds that YouTube is promoting anti-vaccine misinformation in search results and recommendations — Facebook, under pressure from lawmakers and in the midst of a national measles outbreak, says it's working to prevent anti-vaccination content from being algorithmically recommended to users.
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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Yahoo Sports to launch Queens Baseball Club on March 28 at $5-$6 a month, covering the Mets with three writers; Yahoo is working on deals with MLB and NBA teams — Yahoo Sports is creating a potential challenger to the The Athletic's subscription model, The Post has learned.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Sean Spicer joins Extra as a special correspondent, starting with a series on the personal lives of DC insiders like Mike Pompeo and Sarah Sanders — “The idea is to give people a different angle on some of the people they see on the cable news channels every day," says the former Trump White House spokesperson.
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Charter Communications Newsroom:
Charter Communications to launch Spectrum TV Essentials, a $15 per month package of 60+ live TV channels, at the end of March without requiring a cable box — Priced at $14.99, Spectrum TV Essentials Will Feature More Than 60 Live Popular Channels Including Networks from Viacom, Discovery, A&E, AMC and Hallmark
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