Mediagazer: Leaked UK government plans propose that social media companies be policed by an independent regulator, with annual “transparency reports” on harmful content (The Guardian)

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

Modifying metadata to highlight publication dates, like the Guardian is doing, is one of several ways of better contextualizing articles shared on social media — This is a great idea: In order to reduce the number of its old stories that get recirculated as new, The Guardian is making …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, @klasfeldreports, @niemanlab, @kathviner, @equartey, @chrismoranuk, @jbenton and Press Gazette

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Interview with Susan Smith Richardson, new CEO of the Center for Public Integrity, on increasing representation, using databases to connect trends, and more — Thirty years after it was founded, the D.C.-based investigative nonprofit Center for Public Integrity operates in a very different news environment …

Discussion: Center for Public Integrity, Columbia Journalism Review, @dabeard, @jenny8lee and @publici

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Conde Nast names Roger Lynch its first global CEO; Lynch was president and CEO of Pandora prior to its acquisition by Sirius XM — Roger Lynch has been named Condé Nast's first global CEO, with the former Pandora and Dish Network exec stepping into the role April 22.

Discussion: New York Times, Recode, @pkafka, WWD, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Folio, @katierosman, MediaPost and WWD

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Snap emphasizes that its approach to privacy is different than others as it adds integrations like sharing buttons, with The Washington Post as a launch partner — Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wants to have it both ways: Keep Snapchat insulated from the darker sides of the internet, and also open it up to some of the rest of the web.

Discussion: Digiday, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Recode, Fast Company, The Wrap, Bloomberg and @lucas_shaw, more at Techmeme »

Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Snap announces plans for the Snap Audience Network, which would sell vertical video ads on others' ad inventory, taking a percentage of revenue — Here's one way for Snap to grow its business without adding new users. — Snap has a plan to grow its young business: It wants to sell ads that appear inside other companies' apps.

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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Snap announces 10 new original shows from Indigo Development, a joint venture of Snap and NBCUniversal, BuzzFeed, New Form, and others

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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announce a divorce settlement that will leave him with 75% of their Amazon stock and their full stake in The Washington Post — In a tweet Thursday, MacKenzie Bezos said that her divorce from Jeff Bezos was finalized and that she would give her ex-husband voting control of her Amazon shares.

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Jack Crosbie / Splinter:

The BuzzFeed union accuses the company of union-busting as recognition drags; the company only wants to recognize specific titles, not the newsroom as a whole — I don't know where he was today. It's a Wednesday, so I'm assuming he was at work, or doing work somewhere.

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New York Times:

iHeartMedia files for an IPO, whose sale proceeds it would use to pay its debts, as it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy — Is there room for radio in the age of Spotify? — That is the question underlying a securities filing on Wednesday by the broadcast giant iHeartRadio for what it says could be an initial public offering.

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The Guardian:

Leaked UK government plans propose that social media companies be policed by an independent regulator, with annual “transparency reports” on harmful content — Exclusive: Long-awaited white paper proposes regulator to enforce duty of care and fine offenders

Discussion: Adweek, Variety, HBR.org and Real Clear Politics, more at Techmeme »

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

SiriusXM and Pandora announce Pandora NOW, a station that streams on both services, spanning genres and letting users influence which songs get played — More changes are coming to Pandora, following the $3.5 billion acquisition by SiriusXM last year. The company today launched …

Discussion: Variety and RAIN News

Associated Press:

Following criticism, Twitter has stopped blocking French government ads urging people to vote; Twitter banned French political ads after new law on ad funding — PARIS (AP) — Twitter said Thursday it has stopped blocking French government ads calling on people to vote after it came under fire …

Discussion: TechCrunch, BBC and Politico, more at Techmeme »

Nat Levy / GeekWire:

Court filing: Amazon says it ended Woody Allen deal because his reactions to sexual abuse allegations destroyed any benefit it would get from working with him — Amazon said in a new court filing Wednesday that it ended a deal to finance and distribute films by Woody Allen because his …

Discussion: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Deadline, Telegraph, BBC, Variety, Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap

Brian Stelter / CNN:

Q&A with The City's EIC Jere Hester and chair of the board Ben Smith on the nonprofit site's plans, with a staff of 18 journalists: “We're here to collaborate” — New York (CNN Business)New York City now has its very own nonprofit news website.

Discussion: New York Times, Hit & Run, Law & Crime and New York Post

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