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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
As social media platforms struggle to remove the NZ shooter's video, the Sun and Daily Mirror ran edited footage and Mail Online published the manifesto as well — Other British news outlets, The Sun and The Mirror, featured the attacker's first-person video, including in GIF form on the homepages of their websites.
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New York Times, The Conversation, Washington Post, @drewharwell, The Guardian, Business Insider, CNN, @paulwiggins, @peterbale, @jeffjarvis, @peterbale, @pastpunditry and @rmac18
Mark J. Burns / Morning Consult:
Minute Media, which bought Mental Floss in 2018, buys sports and pop culture site The Big Lead from Gannett; The Big Lead co-founder Jason McIntyre will leave — Minute Media said Thursday that it has purchased sports, media and pop culture website The Big Lead from USA Today parent company Gannett Co. …
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@markjburns88, Deadspin, New York Post, Adweek and Awful Announcing
Apple:
Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace” — We believe that technology achieves its true potential when we infuse it with human creativity and ingenuity.
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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Axios and NBC confirm they have hired an editor to suggest changes to their Wikipedia entries; the editor has also worked for a Facebook PR firm and Nextdoor — Executives at the news company Axios were outwardly unperturbed when Jonathan Swan, one of the Politico-for-kids site's star reporters …
Mahita Gajanan / TIME:
CPJ launches The Last Column, a project that attempts to immortalize the work of reporters around the world who are killed in the line of duty — The names of the dead trickle out slowly at first — Marie Colvin, Samir Kassir, James Foley — before more than 1,300 others pour together to form a thick black outline of a box.
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Committee to Protect …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube star Lilly Singh takes over Carson Daly's NBC's 1:30am timeslot, making her the only woman to host a late-night talk show on a broadcast network — The broadcast network announced in February that ‘Last Call With Carson Daly’ would end after 17 years. — NBC has found its next late-night host.
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CNET and @billkuchman
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
The New Yorker wins four Ellies and New York magazine EIC Adam Moss is inducted into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame at the National Magazine Awards — It was a battle of the titans at the National Magazine Awards Thursday night, pitting Adam Moss, in his final contest at the helm of New York magazine …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A look at Media Matters, which monitors conservative media, and its researcher Madeline Peltz, who dug up Tucker Carlson's chats on Bubba the Love Sponge's show — Madeline Peltz works the night shift at the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reuters, FT, and others form One Free Press Coalition to spotlight journalists under attack and will publish ten most urgent cases on the first of each month — Eleven international news organisations have joined a coalition to use their collective reach of 1bn people to “stand up for journalists under attack for pursuing the truth”.
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CNN, Financial Times and @petervanham
Paresh Rajwat / Facebook:
Facebook is rolling out Watch Party support for live TV, testing first in Groups with live sports events, adds music features including in India and Thailand — Today at SXSW, we're sharing updates on how we're bringing people together around video and music on Facebook …
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Billboard, RAIN News, Music Business Worldwide, 9to5Mac and Engadget
Lynn Elber / Associated Press:
The Hallmark Channel cuts ties with star Lori Loughlin after her arrest in a college admissions scam — LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Hallmark Channel cut ties Thursday with favored star Lori Loughlin, a day after her arrest in a college admissions scam put the family-friendly network …
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Luke DeCock / Raleigh News & Observer:
Charlotte's Raycom Sports is ending its 37-year run as ACC basketball broadcaster, to be replaced by ESPN as it launches its ACC Network in August — The pilot still sails, quietly, behind the scenes. — Before the first game of the ACC tournament in Charlotte, the Raycom television crew will listen …
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Richmond Times-Dispatch and Awful Announcing