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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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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Helping people examine killers' motives could help defuse radicalization, but the press has a responsibility not to pour gasoline on a roaring blaze of racism — Mass shootings have a way of making the theoretical talk about Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and their role in spreading hate all too real.
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live — On Friday, at least 49 people were killed in terror attacks in New Zealand. Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees show …
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George Rodrigue / The Plain Dealer:
Cleveland's The Plain Dealer is laying off 12 reporters and editors, in addition to a prior cut of ~29 production staffers, mainly copy editors and designers — Since around 2001, newspaper advertising revenue nationally has been plummeting. It's below the levels of the 1950s now.
Charles R. Davis / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tax filings show relatively high salaries at both The Intercept and parent company First Look Media as well as heavy dependence on Pierre Omidyar's donations — On Wednesday, First Look Media delivered the latest in a flurry of bad news for digital media: the company, which includes …
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Spotify says “every monopolist will suggest they have done nothing wrong”, that Apple's response is not new, and is entirely in line with Spotify's expectations — In Friday's early hours, Spotify and Apple traded potshots in their ongoing battle over the App Store.
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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”
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”
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Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
The new editor of Alabama's The Democrat-Reporter, an African-American woman, resigns, claiming interference from the prior editor who published a pro-KKK oped — When a white newspaper editor in Alabama drew widespread condemnation for an editorial that called for the Ku Klux Klan to ride again …
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Ric Sanchez / Washington Post:
The tweets from Netflix announcing the cancellation of One Day at a Time seem to tell fans they matter, but not enough to override an opaque business decision — On Thursday, Netflix informed viewers that it would be canceling “One Day at a Time,” its reboot of the classic Norman Lear series, after three seasons.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Insider says it has 3.7M subscribers across its daily channel and video shows on Snapchat and is adding 15,000 subscribers a day — Insider has found a new way to make money off its old Facebook news-feed videos: by recutting and distributing them on Snapchat.
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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Source: Nielsen will begin sharing Amazon and Hulu viewing data later this year, increasing the pressure on Netflix to start sharing viewing data for its shows — Looming competition, mounting pressure from entertainment industry players and tracking efforts from media measurement companies are pushing Netflix to open up.
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Snigdha Poonam / Financial Times:
A look at the online video market in India, valued at $700M+, where 245M watch YouTube on their phones each month and 300+ content creators have 1M+ subscribers — For eight minutes last month, the Swedish video blogger PewDiePie was no longer king of the internet.
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Brian Gallagher / Nautilus:
Q&A with James Evans, a computational scientist, and Misha Teplitskiy, a post-doc fellow at Harvard, on filter bubbles and political diversity on Wikipedia — A lesson in how to break out of filter bubbles. — In 2013, James Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and computational scientist …
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