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James Walker / Press Gazette:
Brexit Party says ban on Channel 4 reporters has been lifted; Channel 4 News denies claims reporters “repeatedly lied” to gain access to a secure area at rally — The Brexit Party has lifted its ban on Channel 4 News after a meeting between the broadcaster and the party's chairman this morning.
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@marinahyde, Poynter, Channel 4 News, @daaronovitch, @brexitparty_uk, @bendepear, @bendepear, @andywigmore, @davidlammy, indy100, paulwiltshireblog and Press Gazette
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media Hires Cory Haik, formerly publisher of Mic and former executive director of emerging news products at The Washington Post, as chief digital officer — Vice Media has recruited Cory Haik, former publisher of digital news start-up Mic, as chief digital officer to lead the youth-culture company's global internet businesses.
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@katiedrumm, @niketa and Adweek
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
How ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro, who took over in March 2018, is betting on ESPN+, expanding social media offerings, and steering commentary away from politics — When the 2019 NFL draft took over downtown Nashville last month, ESPN became a city within the city, with more than 600 staffers …
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Mediaite, @spgmarketintel, @stevebattaglio, @sopandeb, @jasonschwartz, @roter, @laurawags, @jadubin5, @stevebattaglio, @robneyer, @kevinmdraper, Deadspin and Fox News
Joel Mathis / KLC Journal:
Case study of dwindling newspapers in Kansas: interviews with leaders at McClatchy, Ogden, and GateHouse, in which GateHouse's CEO denies its model is predatory — As the financial challenges facing Kansas newspapers grow, a marked shift toward out-of-state ownership is rearranging the landscape.
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@ngerik, @will_bunch and @morganatopb
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Thomas Peele / Mercury News:
Judge orders return of San Francisco journalist Bryan Carmody's equipment, delays consideration of legal questions about the search until June — News organizations and free press advocates around the country reacted with outrage to the raid on television reporter Bryan Carmody's home
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New York Times, @bryanccarmody, @davidgreene, @apwestregion, @alextarquinio, CNN, @yashar, @yashar, @dannoyes, @dannoyes, @yashar, @boutrousted, @yashar, @georgegascon, CNN and SPJ News
Andrew R. Chow / TIME:
Georgia hosted 455 film and TV productions in 2018, but some workers fear a loss of jobs after some directors pull projects to protest an anti-abortion bill — This week, the director Reed Morano was supposed to fly to Georgia to scout locations for a new show for Amazon Studios called The Power.
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Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, /Film, The Wrap, Page Six, The A.V. Club, Los Angeles Times, Variety and The Week
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
As platforms struggle to contain health misinformation, two women infiltrate private Facebook groups to find and report posts about dangerous “cures” for autism — Online groups urge parents to poison autistic kids with chlorine dioxide, a form of bleach, to “cure” them.
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@oneunderscore__, @brandyzadrozny, @podiumnetwork, @profcarroll, @crackedscience, @taylorlorenz and NBC 10 Philadelphia
The Guardian:
After backlash, Google to require abortion services advertisers in the US, UK, and Ireland to declare in their ads whether or not they provide abortions — Announcement comes after Guardian revealed Google gave $150,000 in free ads to opaque anti-abortion group
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National Review, SlashGear, The Next Web, CBS News, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hill, New York Times, Gizmodo, Ad Age and FiveThirtyEight, more at Techmeme »
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Study: despite News Feed changes, “junk news” from known sources of disinformation in EU get 1.2x-4x the engagement of professional news sources on Facebook — A study carried out by academics at Oxford University to investigate how junk news is being shared on social media …
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Nieman Lab, The Computational …, @patbagley, @sarapweber, @thegrugq, @polbots, @peterjukes, @peterjukes, @benimmo, @fabiochiusi and CNBC
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges faced by fact-checkers at Vishvas News, Facebook's largest Indian-language fact-checking contractor, as India's election nears its end — Join us on WhatsApp for special coverage of India's election. Sign up here. — The world's largest election has become something …
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American Press Institute, @mathewi, @pelstrom and @sherryaske
Columbia Journalism Review:
Secretly recorded video of Austria's vice chancellor expressing desire to limit media freedoms underscores months-long threat to Austrian media — On Friday, May 17, the German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, published a secretly recorded video. In it, Austria's vice chancellor …
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New York Times, New York Times, @cjr, @demianbulwa, @willfitzgibbon, @makanaeyre, Vox, BBC and The Week
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Al Jazeera is planning to launch a cross-platform business vertical called AJ Impact with 10 full-time staffers to start — Al Jazeera is planning to launch a cross-platform business vertical called AJ Impact, executives tell Axios. It will feature original reporting from Al Jazeera journalists worldwide …
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Axios, Talking Biz News and @ahmed
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