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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, Los Angeles Times, @katierosman, Mediaite, WWD and The Daily Caller
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 on Friday said it would prevent channels that promote anti-vax content from running advertising …
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, The Wrap, NPR, Daring Fireball, @buzzfeeduk and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
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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, The Daily Beast and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
Digiday Research survey of 100 ad buyers: only 14% expect the YouTube crisis to have an impact on long-term spending; ~33% said cutbacks would be temporary
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@aexm, @jackneff, Adweek and AdExchanger
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
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Nieman Lab, Fast Company, Gizmodo, WIRED UK, The Verge, @rachblevins, B&TB&T, @cnbc, Beyond Search, @winnersusedrugs, @danielmadison78, @mattbinder, @bmorrissey, Tubefilter, Engadget, Boing Boing, The Verge, The Verge and The Wrap
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 …
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board — Twitter Co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — “It's been an incredible 13 years …
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@ev, Business Insider, Recode, The Wrap, Business Insider, The Verge and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in editorial call, CNN head Zucker defends hiring former Trump admin official Sara Isgur, emphasizes she won't make decisions about political coverage — On an editorial call, Jeff Zucker endorses former Justice Department official Sarah Isgur, clarifying her role and title
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@coreypein
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN hiring Sarah Isgur is puzzling given her reported loyalty pledge to Trump's anti-press agenda and numerous critical tweets of CNN, reporters, and Democrats
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@atrupar, Forbes, MediaFile, @jdawsey1, @neontaster, @jayrosen_nyu, @espiers, @ericschultz, @parkermolloy, @becketadams, @juddlegum, @parkermolloy, @nytimes, @ewerickson, @simonmaloy, @matthewwolfff, @irin, @maxwelltani, @samstein, @matthewwolfff, @erikwemple, @ericschultz, @blackamazon, @atrupar, @simonmaloy, @ericschultz, @mikiebarb, @kortizart and Media Matters for America
Peter Georgiev / Reynolds Journalism Institute:
As increased use of algorithms in journalism raises questions of responsibility for libel, some stress the importance of transparency in code — “I will work tirelessly to keep you informed as texts will be typed into my system uninterrupted.” — This is how Xinhua News' artificial …
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@niemanreports
Anna Beahm / al.com:
The Democrat-Reporter, the Alabama newspaper that ran a KKK editorial, has named Elecia R. Dexter, an African-American woman, as its new publisher and editor — A new publisher and editor have been named at the Democrat-Reporter, the newspaper that gained national attention this week …
Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
An Arizona cop threatened to arrest 12-year-old journalist Hilde Lysiak while she was reporting; Lysiak uploaded the exchange on YouTube and her own website — When a small-town Arizona cop stopped a 12-year-old reporter who was chasing down a story tip on Monday, he probably had no idea what he was getting himself into.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
In France, ten media companies, which together reach ~80% of the population, are partnering and spending €5M to create a unified login system across their sites — Media companies eager to deepen relationships with their audiences are teaming up and turning to unified login systems …
Jamie Tarabay / New York Times:
Australian billionaire Chau Chak Wing awarded $200K in a defamation case over a 2015 Sydney Morning Herald story connecting him to a bribery scandal — SYDNEY, Australia — A billionaire businessman won a defamation case on Friday against a media organization that he claimed had wrongly linked …
Chuck Strouse / Miami New Times:
McClatchy CEO says ~225 employees have accepted buyout offers across the country with sources saying the Miami Herald is losing at least 10 employees — McClatchy Company CEO Craig Forman announced Wednesday “a bit fewer” than 225 employees had accepted buyout offers and would leave newspapers across the country.
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