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John Ingold / The Colorado Sun:
Twenty years after Columbine, a journalist who covered the shooting reflects on how media unwittingly created a narrative that may have inspired more attacks — But the mythology around killers no longer needs press coverage to spread — Red Lake High School. Dawson College. Sparks Middle School.
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Angelina Rascouet / Bloomberg:
Publicis to buy US digital marketing company Epsilon, which collects vast amounts of consumer data like transactions, location, and web activity, for $3.95B — - Ad group makes biggest purchase yet in consumer-data bet — Traditional marketing firms are fighting new rivals online
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Marcela Kunova / Journalism.co.uk:
To fight trolls and abusers, Rappler started collecting data, such as public social media posts, to monitor and analyze the spread of disinformation online — News websites Rappler in the Philippines and the Quint in India have found new ways to combat disinformation and defend free speech
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Twitter has removed TorrentFreak's tweet pointing to a news story on recent leaks of unreleased TV shows, after a questionable DMCA takedown request from Starz — At TorrentFreak, we have been covering copyright and piracy related news for well over a decade.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
After recording 10-hours of conversation for the podcast Texting Keith Olbermann, sources say the ex-MSNBC host changed his mind and demanded BBC not to post it — In a BBC podcast, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann criticizes Rachel Maddow and Steve Kornacki for lack of gratitude …
Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Alden Global Capital's MNG Enterprises says it would cut costs and consolidate operations at Gannett if it succeeds in its bid to take over the company — A hedge fund-owned newspaper company signaled in a response to questions from U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer D-N.Y. that it would cut costs …
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Interview with European Commission's GDPR chief Giovanni Buttarelli on why Google and Facebook need to do more on GDPR compliance — It's been a year since the roll-out of the General Data Protection Regulation, yet big questions still linger around what the right consent strategy looks like …
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@emilyadwoman, @digiday, @fastbreakdgtl and @journalism
Ren LaForme / Poynter:
Frame, a new digital news weekly, launches with a novel distribution strategy: delivering new stories to subscribers' Apple or Google calendars — There's an empty spot on millions of coffee tables where weekly news magazines once sat. They're not likely to make a resurgence in print …
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@jeremycaplan and @poynter
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Whereby.Us, a network of five local news sites, curbs its 25-city expansion as it deepens community ties through a $10/month, experience-focused memberships — “I would love to be in 25 cities and I wish we could've lived up to that. The financial reality and the operational reality of it was not quite ready for that."
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@niemanlab and @niemanlab
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Yemeni bodega owners' association representing 4K+ NYC bodegas announces a boycott of NY Post over its Thursday cover attacking Ilhan Omar for her 9/11 comments — Murdoch-owned paper published front page that Yemeni American Merchants Association says ‘provoked hatred’
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Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
Pew poll: 62% of urban residents say their local news media mainly cover their area; 57% of rural residents say their local media mostly cover some other area — Americans in urban communities are more likely to say local news media mostly cover the area where they live …
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Interview with Nancy Pelosi on online privacy, net neutrality, big tech companies and hate speech and antitrust law, and the media response to Trump's tweets — “He's just being a freak.” — Enough people use Twitter to get their information that politicians have to be there, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says.
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