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Bustle Digital Group, which owns Mic and Gawker, is buying The Outline, founded in 2016 by Josh Topolsky, who says he will continue to run the site — More digital media mergers: Josh Topolsky is going to work for Bryan Goldberg. — In the past year, Bustle Digital Group bought Gawker …
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De Correspondent EIC Rob Wijnberg talks about messaging after the outlet said it would not open a US newsroom following its fundraiser for a version in English — “Keep in mind that, especially in a campaign like this, tons of people talk about what we're trying to do.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit against BuzzFeed from Michael Leidig of Central European News, saying Leidig failed to show anything in an article about him was false — BuzzFeed won a long-running legal battle on Wednesday against Michael Leidig, whom the news site had described in a 2015 story the “King of Bullsh- News.”


US Census Bureau has asked Google, Facebook, and Twitter for help protecting upcoming 2020 count from disinformation campaigns designed to dissuade participants — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off “fake news” …
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Spotify says it will begin to personalize some of its human-curated playlists — Spotify is starting to algorithmically personalize some of its curated playlists, making a major change to how people discover music on the streaming service. — Spotify is already known for having …
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Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content — After a civil rights backlash, Facebook will now treat white nationalism and separatism the same as white supremacy …
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Veteran TV executive Jana Bennett has joined Silicon Valley-based Ozy Media as a senior adviser, tasked with expanding its TV production and podcast operations — History and TLC alum Jana Bennett has signed on with Ozy Media to help the Silicon Valley-based digital content firm expand its TV production and podcast operations.
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Website goes offline for women's magazine The Pool almost two months after staffers were told it would close; the company has yet to file for administration — The Pool website has gone offline almost two months after staff were told the women's lifestyle publication would go into administration.


Research shows that as local newspapers disappear and people rely more on national, conflict-focused sources of political news, split-ticket voting goes down — Study finds newspaper closures are linked to partisanship — Last month, staffers at The Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado …
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While some think Apple News+ offers publishers a bad deal, companies including Vox, theSkimm, and New York Media are using it to test new products or strategies — Media observers have already decided that Apple News+ is a terrible deal for legacy publishers.
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Analysis of Christchurch coverage: 86% of US publications followed guidelines and did not name the shooter but 45% of the stories most shared on Facebook did — On March 15, 2019, a gunman opened fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 and wounding dozens of others.
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Since James Bruggers left his job at the Courier-Journal, Kentucky's coal country has been left without a newspaper reporter on the environment beat full-time — A year ago, the last Kentucky newspaper staffer dedicated to the environmental beat full-time left his job. He was not replaced.
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The EU's Copyright Directive has the potential to further fracture the open web based on location and may lead to the closure of Google News in Europe — How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web — It's strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn't generally need a passport to travel.
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European Parliament approves the Copyright Directive, a controversial law including Article 11, dubbed the “link tax” and Article 13, dubbed the “upload filter”
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