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11:30 AM ET, February 23, 2019

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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.
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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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 …
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
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 …
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.”
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 …
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 …
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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
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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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 …
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 …
 
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Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
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Tim Ingham / Rolling Stone:
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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