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Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
YouTube showed a link and description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as part of its fact checking, underneath live streams of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire — A fire has broken out at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral today, and, as you'd expect, many news networks are offering live coverage of the breaking situation.
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Lydia Polgreen / HuffPost:
HuffPost is launching a membership program, HuffPost Plus, with tiers from free to premium, offering access to members-only newsletters and other features — From voting rights to self-care, HuffPost's stories put people before power. Support the mission by becoming a member.
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media acquires Epic Magazine, which has a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox and 40+ projects in production, says Epic will remain independent — With the purchase of the producer behind Apple's ‘Little America,’ Vox Media is reorganizing its entertainment teams under a new studios division led by Marty Moe.
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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
A list of winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes, including Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, the NYT, WSJ, and others — This post will be updated as the awards are announced. — The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York City on Monday.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
The Wall Street Journal wins a Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category for stories on Trump's hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
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Marina Fang / HuffPost:
The Capital Gazette received a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize committee for its coverage of its own newsroom shooting in which five colleagues died
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
The LA Times wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for its series on a USC gynecologist accused of sexually abusing hundreds of students
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources say that Facebook Watch, like YouTube, will accept content from anyone; Facebook confirms it will convert Watch show pages into broader video pages — Facebook Watch's transformation from a video section reserved exclusively for professionally made, episodic shows to videos of all kinds …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
In an open letter, Schibsted follows Spotify's lead, says Apple is abusing its position as the dominant player in the app market — Nordic publishing giant Schibsted is the latest publisher to back Spotify's allegations that Apple is abusing its stance as the most dominant player in the app market.
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
Newspapers with subscription-based models need to stop trying to “lock” their customers into contracts, adopting best practices from Amazon and Netflix instead — The internet for news is closing. In the wake of the global failure for digital advertising, publishers are putting their hopes in subscriptions.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As The New York Times launches a 5G Journalism Lab to explore storytelling possibilities, a look at how speedier mobile networks could boost newsrooms — If there's one thing you can count on in modern life, one truism that will never let you down, it is this: You want more Gs.
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@hannahsbirch, @thebeenster, @niemanlab and @jbenton
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Hulu has repurchased AT&T's 9.5% stake in the business for $1.43B, giving Hulu a valuation of $15B; Disney said in November that Hulu was worth $9.26B — - Hulu bought back AT&T's 9.5 percent stake in the entity for $1.43 billion, valuing the streaming company at $15 billion.
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Source: the Financial Times is no longer available on British Airways flights following critical coverage of the airline in the paper — British Airways has stopped offering the Financial Times to passengers in response to negative stories about it in the paper, a source at the business title has told Press Gazette.
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Vice is canceling its nightly news show “Vice Live” just weeks after its debut — Vice canceled its flagship show, Vice Live, just weeks after its debut. Multiple sources told The Daily Beast that the millennial news company had canceled the new nightly show.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: James Murdoch wants to use some of his proceeds from the sale of 21st Century Fox to invest in comic book publisher Artists, Writers and Artisans — Former chief of 21st Century Fox is beginning to invest some of the $2.2 billion he made from the sale of the company's major entertainment properties
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Reuters:
Google has removed the popular video app TikTok from its Play Store in India to comply with a state court's directive — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads …
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