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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
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
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Teresa Mioli / Journalism in the Americas:
Journalists and press freedom advocates are highlighting a theme of media for democracy in times of disinformation for the 26th World Press Freedom Day — Each May 3 is a global celebration of press freedom and its importance to society. For this year's World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) …
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Columbia Journalism Review, CNN, @cjr, @pressfreedom, Washington Post and Editor & Publisher
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Reporters Without Borders to launch an all-party parliamentary group in the UK in July to promote press freedom worldwide — An all-party parliamentary group on press freedom in the UK will launch this summer, it was announced today on World Press Freedom Day.
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BBC and Reporters Without Borders
Anabel Pasarow / Refinery29:
Twitter launching a monthly original video series on May 3 spotlighting women in journalism, using the hashtag #HerStory in honor of World Press Freedom Day — In honor of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Twitter is spotlighting female voices in journalism around the world with the launch …
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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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Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
Sources: Gayle King will anchor CBS This Morning, with co-hosts Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil; Norah O'Donnell is expected to move to the CBS evening newscast — Gayle King, staying with CBS This Morning, will be joined by Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil next season.
The Advocate:
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 Dathel and John Georges have purchased The Times-Picayune and its nola.com website from the Newhouse family's Advance Local Media.
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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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says it will make all of its original content free this fall in a strategy that its CBO says is in opposition to what other media companies are doing — - YouTube Renews Kevin Hart Comedy Series, Sets Maluma and Paris Hilton Documentaries, Lollapalooza Live-Streaming Deal
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Publishers and ad tech vendors are broadly content with second version of IAB Europe's framework for GDPR compliance, which will be open for comment for 30 days — Publishers and ad tech vendors may finally have reached a compromise on what an industry standard for GDPR compliance looks like.
Andy Bechtel / The Editor's Desk:
Q&A with Megan Cassella, a Politico reporter covering trade and a 2015 j-school graduate, on typical editing at Politico, essential job skills, and adaptation — Megan Cassella is a reporter at POLITICO in Washington, D.C., covering the trade beat. She previously worked at Reuters news service.
Kali Hays / WWD:
Interview with InStyle's third publisher in three years, Agnes Chapski, on plans to grow digital channels like social and video, where she sees potential — Agnes Chapski, after an apparently acrimonious departure from NewBeauty, is looking to go deep into InStyle's digital channels.