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Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
The Guardian updates style guide to recommend “global heating” instead of “global warming”, and “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown”, over “climate change” — From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’
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Press Gazette, @cwharlow, @greenpeaceuk and @markdistef
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Digital First Media's bid for Gannett may have failed this time, but industry executives continue to say they expect mergers among the big newspaper chains — This hostile takeover didn't work out. But the thinking of industry executives remains dominated by the inevitable merging of America's big newspaper chains.
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@dfmworkers
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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
London-based TI Media, formerly called Time Inc UK, sells its music magazines NME and Uncut to Singapore's BandLab Technologies — BandLab Technologies, a Singapore-based social music platform, has agreed to acquire British music magazines NME and Uncut from TI Media for an undisclosed amount to expand its global music media business.
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Press Gazette
Knight Foundation:
Survey of 4K+ college students: 45% don't have much confidence in the media to report news accurately, and 14% don't trust it at all — Views on free speech versus promoting an inclusive society sharply divide based on gender, race, sexual orientation, political affiliation and religion
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@lorelleespinosa
Paul Wallbank / Mumbrella:
Internal email: News Corp says it has passed 500K paid digital subscribers in Australia, eight years after it launched a paywall for The Australian — News Corp says it has passed the 500,000 paid digital subscribers milestone in Australia. — News Corp Australia's executive chairman …
Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
Q&A with sportswriter Jackie MacMullan on covering the NBA as a woman, social media, and how relationships between journalists and players have changed — When Jackie MacMullan joined the Boston Globe as an intern in the news department, in 1982, the N.B.A. was just beginning its ascent …
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Sources: Quora, which has 300M+ MAUs, is raising a $60M round led by Valor Equity Partners at a valuation of $2B, and told investors it had $20M in 2018 revenue — According to some, the financing round for the question-and-answer platform speaks to the high valuation for virtually everything these days in the tech sector.
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@teddyschleifer, @pt, @teddyschleifer and @felixsalmon, more at Techmeme »
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: Quibi execs have met with digital publishers, including Insider Inc., Group Nine, Refinery29, and iHeartMedia, to pitch ideas for daily video content — Jeffrey Katzenberg's billion-dollar video startup Quibi will be centered on expensive video series from high-profile directors …
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MediaPost, @eringriffith, @cityofthetown and Digital TV Europe
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
Three French journalists faced government interrogation, and now possibly jail time, after using a secret document to report on France's ties to the Yemen war — Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing …
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@rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @skynebula and @rj_gallagher
Drew Magary / The Concourse:
Deadspin columnist and GQ correspondent Drew Magary recounts his near-death experience with a subdural hematoma and his struggle with recovery — Or dare I say... given away? I am the least reliable narrator when it comes to the story of my brain exploding.
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@drewmagary, @bruce_arthur, @megreenwell, @timmarchman, @drewmagary, @garretthaake, @ashleyfeinberg, @jeremylittau, @pattymo, @domcosentino, @barry, @michaelsclair and @david_j_roth
Casey Newton / The Interface:
As the definition of “bias” expands to include instances where social media users don't have the desired outcome, it's harder for platforms to say there is none — Three years ago this month, Mark Zuckerberg gathered together a group of influential conservatives to defend Facebook against allegations of political bias.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @tarletong, The Verge, New York Times, Techdirt, MediaNama, @jack, @mrjamesob and @brhodes
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
White House launches tool to solicit information from people who had social media accounts suspended or banned and who suspect political bias behind the actions
Discussion:
Reason, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Naked Security, @knightcolumbia, The Verge, Politico, @profcarroll, @jamesgleick, Politico, @tonyromm, VICE News, Washington Post, @kevinroose, Techdirt, MediaPost, Vanity Fair, @laurenweinstein, @laurenweinstein, @3r1ng, @emptywheel, @jilliancyork, @laurenweinstein, @jaredlholt, @qhardy, @digiphile, @slpng_giants, @emptywheel, @jaywillis, @joshtpm, @russellbrandom, @backlon, @kt_so_it_goes, @griffey, @gregmorabito, @mollyjongfast, @mikerugnetta, @reckless, @reckless, @chrisvanhollen, @digiphile, Fast Company, New York Times, @kimmasters, Mediaite, Mediaite, Axios and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Crackle, sold by Sony Pictures to CSS Entertainment in March, reports revenue of $11M and operating profit of $3.5M in Q1; sources say it was burning cash — For the first time, financial results for Sony Pictures Television's Crackle have been made public — and the free …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sony Music has formed a joint venture with Adam Davidson and Laura Mayer, both veteran podcast producers, to create and distribute original podcast programming — Sony Music Entertainment is diving into the red-hot podcasting biz. — In its first move into the space …
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