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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, others from Facebook and Instagram, citing dangerous individuals and orgs policy — Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan have been banned as well — Facebook today removed Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Paul Nehlen …
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Rob Price / Business Insider:
Facebook shared info about extremist ban with some news outlets before the ban was in place, letting Alex Jones and others redirect followers to other platforms — - But the company briefed journalists and made the announcement before the bans came into effect, giving the figures time to respond.
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New Orleans Times-Picayune:
New Orleans Advocate owners John and Dathel Georges buy The Times-Picayune and nola.com from Advance Local, will merge websites and publish one daily newspaper — New Orleans Advocate owners John and Dathel Georges have purchased The Times-Picayune and its nola.com website from Advance Local …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr as it tries to steady Verizon Media Group, which has struggled to meet revenue targets — Wireless giant seeks buyer for social-media service that has lost ground to Facebook — Verizon Communications Inc. is seeking a buyer for blogging website Tumblr …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Analysis of 317 articles in Dutch on De Correspondent shows features and analysis dominate, 43% of posts focus on Netherlands, and diversity is severely lacking — I analyzed six months of articles on De Correspondent to get a hint of what we might see on the English-language site.
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Profile of Katie McHugh, a writer with white nationalist ties who was fired in 2017 from Breitbart News and who now warns against the alt-right — If you remember Katie McHugh, it's probably because of the tweets. — A short selection: “British settlers built the USA.
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CNN:
NYT publisher says editor responsible for publication of anti-Semitic cartoon will be disciplined, promises changes to processes to “ensure adequate oversight” — New York (CNN Business)Reporters in The New York Times (NYT) newsroom could hear the protesters outside on Monday.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources suggest Craig Newmark and other funders need a couple more weeks to decide The Markup's future, possibly pulling funding or diverting it to another site — The tech-nerd founder of Craigslist infamously helped to decimate journalism—inadvertently. But he's finding that remaking it is not that simple.
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@nytimespr:
James Bennet, NYT editorial page editor, will recuse himself from any work related to the 2020 election for the duration of his brother's presidential run — .@nytimes editorial page editor James Bennet has recused himself from 2020 election coverage following the announcement that his brother Senator Michael Bennet intends to run for president. Full statement follows. pic.twitter.com/w7UiX85gDQ
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Discovery meets expectations with net income of $384M in Q1, up from a net loss of $8M in Q1 2018, with $2.7B in revenue, up 17% YoY — The cable networks company, which is led by CEO David Zaslav and last year closed its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, swung to a profit.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches voice-enabled ads, which encourage the listener to say a command to take action on the ad's content, in a limited test in the US — Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company's earnings call with investors.
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Jason Lynch / Adweek:
Hulu is rolling out ads aimed at binge watching; advertisers can offer later episodes ad-free or nod to viewing time by pitching a service like food delivery — Streaming service orders Nicole Kidman series based on book from Big Little Lies author — As Hulu's subscriber base expands yet again …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Hulu says it has 26.8M paying subscribers in the US, up from 23M at the end of 2018, not including the 1.3M users signed up through promotions like free trials
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Katie Pellico / CNN:
One Free Press Coalition, which publishes a monthly “Ten Most Urgent” list of journalists in peril, adds 16 new members including WaPo, Wired, and BuzzFeed — New York (CNN Business)In India, Aasif Sultan is behind bars on anti-state charges for his coverage of the conflict in Kashmir.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Interview with Britain's Daily Express EIC Gary Jones, who's moved the tabloid away from its openly anti-immigrant position and softened its pro Brexit-stance — Marking a year in the job, editor seems to have recanted most things his paper was known for — Which national newspaper …
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