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Peter Kafka / Recode:
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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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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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Nick Brown / Reuters:
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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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
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.”
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
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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Motherboard:
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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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
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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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Video Advertising Bureau report says addressable TV spending in the US is expected to rise 33% to $3.37B in 2020, as the audience has grown 27% to 162.2M — U.S. addressable TV spending is expected to rise 33% next year to $3.37 billion from $2.54 billion in 2019, according to the Video Advertising Bureau.
James Walker / Press Gazette:
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.
Scientific American:
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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Jack Neff / Ad Age:
MRC releases its draft version of cross-media audience measurement standards for video, opens a 60-day public comment period, expects final version by Q3 2019 — Ratings for individual commercials and duration-adjusted views part of MRC draft — The Media Rating Council has issued …
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Columbia Journalism Review:
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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Max Willens / Digiday:
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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