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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
NYT looks to expand subscriber base in Texas and Florida with a new TV show called The Weekly debuting in June on Hulu and FX, and experiments with its paywall — - Cooking app shows that newspaper can reach rural customers — Publisher needs to find new markets to hit 10 million target
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Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
NYT says that a reporter and a photographer were disinvited from covering Vanity Fair's Oscar party; on Thursday, NYT ran a story on the party's inner workings — After a story published on Thursday, the paper's staffers say a reporter for the Times was disinvited to the magazine's Oscar party on Sunday.
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@choire, Page Six, @brooksbarnesnyt, @chubailiang, @jimrutenberg, @mcastimovies, @adamnagourney, @thrmattbelloni, @katierosman, Mediaite, WWD, @katierosman, @katierosman and The Guardian
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Peter M. Stevenson / Los Angeles Times:
Profile of Vanity Fair Editor Radhika Jones that looks at her past and efforts at more diversity in the magazine, ahead of her second Oscar party — It was a Sunday afternoon in West Hollywood, the host-less Academy Awards were one week away, and Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones had arrived …
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The Daily Caller, @nytstyles, @ennisnyt and New York Times
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
Survey of 1,000 tech industry workers: 51% believe “Trump has a point when it comes to the media producing fake news”, 38% believe media has become too feminist — A new study by BuzzFeed News and Lucid surveyed tech workers on their attitudes toward the media.
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@mattmittenthal, @emilybell, @anandwrites, @went1955, @yun, @davidmackau, @cequirk, @bernstein, @rmac18 and @carnage4life, more at Techmeme »
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
After reports of pedophiles using YouTube comments to sexualize videos of children, YouTube warns creators it may demonetize videos with inappropriate comments — A new controversy this week over the sexualized exploitation of children on YouTube has set off a wave of advertiser boycotts …
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CNBC, @slpng_giants, @profcarroll, @mattrosoff, The Verge and The Daily Beast, more at Techmeme »
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Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube says it will remove ads on anti-vaccine videos, launches info panel below anti-vaccine videos that links to the Wikipedia page for “vaccine hesitancy”
YouTube says it will remove ads on anti-vaccine videos, launches info panel below anti-vaccine videos that links to the Wikipedia page for “vaccine hesitancy”
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Mashable, @bkphilanthropy, @drsherrypagoto, Gizmodo, @slicedlime, @sidalpha, Variety, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Wrap, NPR, @buzzfeeduk, Daring Fireball and @amywebb, more at Techmeme »
CNBC:
AT&T says it is pulling all advertising from YouTube after reports of pedophiles openly using the platform; Nestle and Epic Games have also pulled ads
AT&T says it is pulling all advertising from YouTube after reports of pedophiles openly using the platform; Nestle and Epic Games have also pulled ads
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Nieman Lab, Fast Company, WIRED UK, @aexm, @rachblevins, Gizmodo, Adweek, B&TB&T, @cnbc, @winnersusedrugs, Beyond Search, @danielmadison78, @mattbinder and @bmorrissey
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Profile of The Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative website launched last month by former Weekly Standard staffers, which wants to call out Trump enablers — The Bulwark's writers are the new outlaws of conservative media. — Charlie sykes is sitting behind a desk in a sparse …
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@mckaycoppins, @julianzelizer, @billkristol and @theatlantic
Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
Alex French and Maximillian Potter on the back story of their Atlantic article on Bryan Singer and alleged pedophilia in Hollywood, which was spiked by Esquire — On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer's Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year.
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@megancarpentier, @jayrosen_nyu, @sunnysingh_n6, @yoloethics, @runwithskizzers, @madelineashby, @woodruffbets, @pamelacolloff and @sil_lai
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK-based non-profit website, Investigative Journal, launches with reports on wiretaps exposing Turkish terrorist support and silencing of Pakistani journalists — A new investigative news website has launched in an effort to “counteract fake news and produce revelatory public interest investigations”.
Jacob Goldberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
Limited information channels meant the same Rohingya victims of sexual violence were interviewed many times for different outlets, incurring an additional toll — In late 2017, on the shores of southern Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people completed a grueling march to escape …
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@suchitrav, @niccijsmith and @sulomeanderson
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
European journalists say Article 11 would enrich publishers at their expense as it enables use of existing contracts and ownership laws to avoid sharing revenue — Promoters of the EU destructive copyright directive keep pushing the bogus line that it is necessary to give money to “artists and journalists.”
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@glynmoody and @jeffjarvis
Brandi Griffin / Poynter:
Newsrooms need to educate journalists on diversity and inclusivity, as simply hiring journalists of color is not enough to mitigate severe underrepresentation — I grew up on the west side of Atlanta in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the city. — I attended predominantly black …
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@poynter, @dankennedy_nu, @doristruong and @raju
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Profile of Roman Dobrokhotov, who runs The Insider, a Russian news site that has published scoops on GRU and other issues in collaboration with Bellingcat — TEN YEARS AGO, Roman Dobrokhotov sat down in the front row of a Kremlin auditorium, surrounded by a polite audience of journalists …
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@dustingiebel, @nxthompson, @caitlin__kelly and @a_greenberg