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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Interviews with current and former Facebook content moderators in US show they make $28K/year, some develop PTSD, and a few are radicalized by fringe content — The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training …
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Justin Osofsky / Facebook:
Facebook says it's committed to enforcing its expectations of working conditions for contractor moderators, and the firms it partners with excel in their domain — We know there are a lot of questions, misunderstandings and accusations around Facebook's content review practices …
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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Univision says Jorge Ramos and his team, who were in Caracas to interview Maduro, were briefly detained at the palace after Maduro “didn't like” their questions — Univision reporter Jorge Ramos was detained at the presidential palace in Caracas Monday by order …
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Ratings for the 2019 Oscars, which had no host and ran 41 minutes shorter than last year's, increased ~12% YoY to 29.6M viewers, after 2018's all-time low — ABC's broadcast up by more than 10 percent from 2018's all-time low. — The 2019 Oscars delivered year-to-year gains in Sunday's ratings …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
At the Oscars, Netflix's Roma wins Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Film, but not Best Picture
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John Williams / New York Times:
Five months after Editor Ian Buruma departed, the New York Review of Books has named Emily Greenhouse and Gabriel Winslow-Yost as co-editors — The New York Review of Books has installed two editors to lead the magazine after being without a top editor since the sudden departure of Ian Buruma in September.
Manish Singh / VentureBeat:
Mozilla partners with Scroll to test alternative funding models for the web, following the news subscription service's acquisition of Nuzzel earlier this month — News subscription service Scroll, which is yet to launch to consumers but has received the backing of several top publishers, courted another major player today: Mozilla.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Sources: publishers struggle to sell their Apple News inventory directly, citing limited user targeting and the inability to use programmatic advertising — Last year, Apple News brimmed with promise for publishers, offering an engaged, high-quality audience that seemed to do nothing but grow.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Lara Logan says she was approached by right-wing media companies but doesn't want to be a “darling of the conservative media” and has not talked to Fox News — In a lengthy interview, Logan told THR she's been approached recently by right-leaning media companies but hasn't had discussions with Fox News.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook restores network of Russia-backed pages targeting US millennials, 10 days after suspending them, after forcing those behind them to disclose RT ties — New York (CNN Business)Facebook said Monday that it would allow a network of millennial-focused pages tied to the Russian state …
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson says the newspaper is considering producing more television shows based on its reporting — “We're going to look at whether we can extend in TV,” Mark Thompson told an investors conference in San Francisco. — As The New York Times gets set to launch The Weekly …
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Dave Zohrob / Chartable:
Survey finds that about 24% of US adults listen to podcasts daily or a few times a week and about 50% listen at least once a month — Podcasts have been around since at least 2004. But unlike text-based news and blogs, which have gone through waves of centralization and disruption thanks …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Evening Standard's parent company says the newspaper's editorial integrity was formally protected in an agreement with Saudi shareholder — A formal agreement has been undertaken to protect the Evening Standard's editorial independence after a Saudi investor took on a large stake in its parent company.
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Variety:
Spotify's launch in India hits a snag as Warner Music Group files an injunction to bar Spotify's access to Warner/Chappell's library of 1M+ songs — UPDATED: Spotify's long-anticipated launch in India could be days away, but the Swedish company is taking its licensing negotiations with the three major music groups to the wire.
Washington Post:
The Washington Post announces the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship, a new global opinions program established to honor the late Post columnist — Award-winning Saudi scholar and activist Hala Al-Dosari named inaugural fellow — The Washington Post today announced the launch of the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship …
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