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Zosha Millman / SeattlePI:
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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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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Peter Kafka / Vox:
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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Rochelle Toplensky / Financial Times:
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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Columbia Journalism Review:
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
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
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
Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
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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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
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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@dpfunke, Engadget, The Hill and @dpfunke, more at Techmeme »
Nina Jankowicz / Columbia Journalism Review:
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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Lauren Johnson / Business Insider:
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.
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
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
Danielle Chemtob / The Charlotte Observer:
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
Nancy Cook / Politico:
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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