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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
After suing Twitter, Rep. Devin Nunes is suing McClatchy and others for alleged defamation, referring to a McClatchy-owned Fresno Bee article, seeks $150M — Congressman Devin Nunes is filing another lawsuit. — Following the lawsuit he filed last month against Twitter, Liz Mair …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Private equity firm Great Hill Partners has agreed to acquire Gizmodo Media Group from Univision, forming a new company led by digital media exec Jim Spanfeller — Private-equity firm Great Hill Partners has agreed to acquire Gizmodo Media Group from Univision Communications Inc. …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Joseph Azam, who resigned from News Corp in late 2017, says other employees were also troubled by Fox News' rhetoric — New York (CNN Business)Joseph Azam joined Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in 2015. He says he loved working there. But after the presidential election, he noticed a disturbing “change in tone.”
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Viacom's ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV has signed a content deal with BBC Studios and now has 15M MAUs, up 3M from January — Free streaming platform now has over 15 million unique monthly active users, up from 12 million in January — Viacom's Pluto TV Inks BBC Studios Deal …
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Major ad industry associations, including ANA and IAB, are launching Privacy for America, a new lobby group that will advocate for a federal data privacy law — A group of major ad industry associations is launching a new organization, Privacy for America, that aims to shape federal privacy laws.
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Associated Press:
US State Department designates 16 people for their roles in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, making them and their family members ineligible for entry to the US — WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department on Monday publicly designated 16 people for their roles in the killing …
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
The Nation's editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel to step down as editor and continue as editorial director, succeeded by editor-at-large D.D. Guttenplan — For 24 years, the editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel has been the public face of The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly in the United States.
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The Nation and @katrinanation
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Profile of CarpeDonktum, a stay-at-home dad posting highly popular pro-Trump memes and blurring the lines between viral trolling and the business of politics — A stay-at-home dad in Kansas reveals how the lines have blurred between viral trolling and the business of politics.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A look at Facebook's “Today In” feature which only ~1.1M users have opted into so far and which is mostly surfacing crime and courts news — Our analysis of the links 10 cities saw in Facebook's local news section found funeral home obituaries, years-old stories, and yes, some meaningful local journalism.
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Stephen Fowler / Columbia Journalism Review:
Georgia's proposed Ethics in Journalism Act would compel reporters to hand over audio and video recordings and photos free of charge to interviewees when asked — In the waning hours of Georgia's legislative session, between votes on sex trafficking and organ procurement …
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Variety:
Universal Music Group has licensed its catalog to uduX, Nigeria's first domestic streaming service, less than a year after opening an office in the country — Nigerian music streaming service uduX and Universal Music Group today announced the signing of a licensing agreement …
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Music In Africa, Digital Music News, Billboard and Music Business Worldwide
Lasantha Wickrematunge / BuzzFeed News:
“When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me”: the final column of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, murdered in January 2009 — Murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty.
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James Ball / MIT Technology Review:
Some fear the sweeping nature of UK's proposal to combine work done by 8+ regulators into a new “super-regulator” with the power to block online platforms, more — Technology giants will be forced to have a “duty of care” for their users, if a proposal announced by the government on Monday becomes law.
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BBC:
UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs
UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs
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