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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Seven organizations are receiving $750K in funding for projects combining AI and news, including The Seattle Times — How will artificial intelligence change society? How should journalists cover it? And how can AI actually be helpful to newsrooms and reporters?
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AI Initiative, Poynter, @timhwang, @mantzarlis, @degarciaknight, TechCrunch, @pilhofer, @jeffjarvis and Muckrock News
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Sources: Vice Media is seeking to raise up to $200M, possibly through a mix of debt and equity, and aims for profitability in the next 12 months — Vice Media is looking to raise a new round of financing of up to $200 million, which the company hopes will give it enough cash to reach its goal …
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@cityofthetown, @felixsalmon, @jessicalessin, @dansinker and @amir
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter has launched its first ever podcast, “Character Count”, a series about its advertising business with interviews with companies like Dropbox — Twitter today is joining the podcasting arena. This morning, the social network is launching its first-ever podcast series …
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Adweek
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS buys out Lionsgate's 50% ownership of the Pop TV cable channel, formerly the TV Guide Network, gaining full control — CBS has taken full ownership of the Pop TV cable channel after buying out the 50% stake held by Lionsgate. — CBS said it aims to better integrate Pop with the rest …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify Premium now offers a subscription to Hulu's ad-supported plan for free, in a deal available to new and existing users in the US until June 10 — Hulu and Spotify today announced an expansion of their partnership on discounted streaming bundles, which lowers the price of Hulu's ad-supported service to, well... nothing.
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Variety, CNET, The Verge, /Film, @klingebeil, @dcseifert, @billboard, The Wrap, @backlon, @musicbefore, MediaPost, The A.V. Club, @danrayburn, Mashable, @chriswelch, Adweek, Fortune, Thurrott, MacRumors and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Alfred Ng / CNET:
Alphabet's Jigsaw releases Tune, a Chrome extension that filters out “toxic” comments on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Disqus using its Perspective AI — The comments sections of websites bring out the best and worst of the internet — engaging insights are often found right next to enraging insults.
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Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Speaking on his show on Monday night, Tucker Carlson said he would “not bow to the mob”, but his program had just four ad breaks and few national advertisers — Tucker Carlson took to Fox News Channel's 8 p.m. slot knowing he had the full support of the cable-news network's regular viewers.
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CNN, Women in the World, @brianstelter, Media Matters for America, @mickpuck, VICE News, @brianstelter, @markfollman and Washington Post
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Madeline Peltz / Media Matters for America:
Clips surface of Tucker Carlson's calls into Bubba the Love Sponge's radio show from 2006 to 2011, where he often spoke in vulgar terms about women and teen sex
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Media Matters for America, Washington Post, Mediaite, Media Nation, New York Times, Poynter, The Intercept, National Review, The Daily Caller, @brithume, The Wrap, The Week, @joshtpm, Washington Post, Breitbart, @atrupar, The Guardian, Slate, wgbh.org, @peltzmadeline, RealClearPolitics, Mother Jones, Newser, @andrewkirell, @juddlegum, Politico, @karaswisher, @fred_guttenberg, Media Matters for America, @hatewatch, The Daily Beast, @jamilsmith, @ananavarro, @tomgara, @bittrscrptreadr, @sfdukie, @colinhanks, @brandondarby, @jaycaruso, @susan_hennessey, Splinter, @jamesdelingpole, @alyssa_milano, @calvinsloan, @cristinamartar, @missryley, @mykecole, @jwgop, @jesselehrich, @parkermolloy, @slpng_giants, @erikwemple, @tvietor08, @goldengateblond, @jonfavs, @laurenduca, @heerjeet, @bro_pair, @cathyyoung63, @letsgomathias, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @charliearchy, WGN-TV, Vanity Fair, Fortune, Business Insider and Boing Boing
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Three Democratic lawmakers reintroduce the Journalist Protection Act, which would make it a federal crime to physically assault journalists — Three Democratic lawmakers reintroduced a Journalist Protection Act that intends to designate “certain attacks on those reporting the news” as a federal crime.
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SPJ News and East County Today
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Facebook has launched a new funding program for Facebook Watch shows pairing publishers and creators, starting with 12 publishers including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast — Facebook is recruiting publishers, including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast and Complex Networks, to produce …
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@sarahmarshall and Adweek, more at Techmeme »
Ellery Roberts Biddle / Global Voices:
Venezuelan journalist Luis Carlos Diaz, a critic of Nicolas Maduro, has been detained by government security forces — On the evening of March 11, political commentator Naky Soto and wife of Venezuelan journalist and media activist Luis Carlos Diaz tweeted that he had been missing for five hours.
Discussion:
Committee to Protect …, @avilarenata, Reporters Without Borders, Al Jazeera, @jilliancyork, @dylanbaddour and The Guardian
Luke Mullins / Washingtonian:
How lobbyists are using geofencing of ads on digital platforms and hiring TV pundits to send policy messages to the president and those who influence him — Paying shills who go on Fox News, planting super-targeted ads in the President's Twitter feed, and all the other eyebrow-raising ways lobbyists …
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@annalecta, Slate, @jeffsmithmo, @digiphile, @crewcrew, @sbg1, @jonathanchait, @lmullinsdc, @asmith83 and @douglevin
The Daily Beast:
Court documents: Nicholas Sandmann, a student who was part of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder, sues CNN; he sued The Washington Post earlier — Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky high-school student who was at the center of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder in Washington …
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Mediaite
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Lori Conkling, EVP of strategy and business development at NBCUniversal, is joining Google as global head of partnerships for YouTube TV and Google Fiber — - DirecTV Now Prices Going Up by $10 per Month for All Customers, AT&T Rolling Out Two New Reformatted Packages
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