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Journalist says Seattle Times reporter Mike Rosenberg sent her sexually harassing Twitter DMs, and the paper says it's suspended him amid its own investigation — Seattle Times journalist Mike Rosenberg has deactivated his Twitter account after another journalist accused him of sending sexually explicit and harassing messages.
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Facebook updates its video guidelines to promote original content, loyal and engaged viewership — Facebook today announced a series of changes to the way it ranks videos on its social network, which determines how widely they're distributed. According to the updated guidelines …
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Sources: Amazon in talks with big US publishers about paying them to expand internationally so it can reach more shoppers with its affiliate business — Big US publishers already make money from Amazon's “affiliate” business. Amazon wants them to make more, and may pay them upfront.
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@pkafka, @martinsfp, @jbenton, @mims and @rafat


Sources: after considering Spotify's complaint about App Store fees, the EU has decided to launch an antitrust probe into Apple's conduct — The EU will launch a formal antitrust investigation into Apple in the next few weeks after Spotify accused the iPhone maker of “tilting the playing field to disadvantage competitors”.
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Study examines how Report for America fellows struggle to build real trust in local news with communities in rural Kentucky and inner-city Chicago — Last June, Report for America (RFA) fellow Will Wright was looking for interviews in Eastern Kentucky. He was standing at a temporary health care clinic …
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Nieman Lab, @samthielman, @bgrueskin, @andreawenzel and @cjr


By broadcasting Russian disinformation about Syria's White Helmets, the One America News Network, which Trump watches, “source launders” propaganda — One America News Network has no qualms with playing the mouthpiece for Kremlin-hatched conspiracy theories.
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@kpoulsen and @mikercarpenter


A freelance writer details how journalism's use of part-time freelancers has hurt the industry, making corporate writing the only refuge for a steady income — In 2009, in the paranoid middle days of the recession, I enacted a boomerang-child stereotype: I moved back home into my parents' basement.
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Instagram starts reducing reach of posts identified as false by Facebook's 50+ fact-check partners, who will see Instagram posts in their dashboards this week — In an expansion of Facebook's partnership with fact-checking sites around the world, Instagram has started reducing the reach of false posts.
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How Ukraine elected comedian Volodymyr Zelensky as president while TV viewers searched in vain for measured, fact-based news on oligarch-owned channels — On a recent spring evening in Kyiv, 22,000 people gathered under cotton-candy skies in the capitol city's Olympic Stadium. Millions more watched at home.
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American Press Institute, @wiczipedia, @fabiochiusi and @wiczipedia


Pitch deck shows Amazon aims to build a video advertising business on Fire TV devices and IMDb FreeDive to rival Roku, Hulu, and others — - Amazon wants a piece of OTT advertising and is targeting advertisers who are migrating from TV's $70 billion market.


Interview with Dan Rather on the state of TV news, his news diet, time at CBS News and relationship with Les Moonves, Trump's war on the press, and more — Ask Dan Rather for his reaction to the Mueller Report and he does not hold back. “What's revealed is absolutely damning,” …
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@laurakeeney and @yashar


After initial moments of fear following a campus shooting, college journalists at UNC Charlotte worked on telling the stories of their classmates and friends — When UNC Charlotte student Nikolai Mather first saw frantic messages about a shooting on campus Tuesday, he turned off his dorm room lights …
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CNN, @spj_3, @ericaperel, @raleighreporter and @daniellechemtob


Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has prioritized pumping up the White House's communications machine, but the daily press briefing is unlikely to return — One of Mick Mulvaney's first acts after he started working as President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff in December was to hit the television airwaves.
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