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Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
Under fire for raid on Bryan Carmody's home, SF's Police Chief claims Carmody took part in a criminal conspiracy to steal an internal police report — Under fire for a raid on the home and office of a freelance journalist who refused to identify a confidential source, San Francisco Police …
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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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Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Source says Medium has 200K-400K paying subscribers, which at $50 per user amounts to a minimum of $10M per year from subscriptions alone — For Medium CEO Ev Williams, building a profitable business isn't an immediate concern. — “We're focused on building revenue and building a subscription business …
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@trengriffin, @flyosity, @alex, @annehelen, @rafat, @jragazzo and @alexeheath, Thanks:@jonsteinberg
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Roku launches tool that uses data from its 29M users to show advertisers how many more people they could reach by shifting budgets from linear to OTT TV — The over-the-top streamer is releasing a new measurement tool meant to entice ad budgets away from traditional TV
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TechCrunch, Multichannel News, MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable and AdExchanger
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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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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@saritharai, @sherryaske, American Press Institute, @mathewi and @pelstrom
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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MediaPost, @katiedrumm, @juliabeizer, @niketa and Adweek
Michael Novinson / CRN:
Google says it's experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results; users searching for fresh news from sites including NYT or WSJ get no results — The bug has prevented new content from being indexed in Google search results, and is most obvious when using the ‘past hour’ search filter.
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Search Engine Roundtable, @googlewmc, Search Engine Journal and Android Police, more at Techmeme »
The Irish Times:
The Times Ireland announces it will cease publication of its print edition and cut staff from 20 to 3 for continued work on digital products — Irish print edition of UK newspaper to cease publication with small number to continue working on digital product
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Press Gazette, RTÉ, @martindoyleit, @fdelond, @trickstersworld, @peterodwyer1 and @theharrymcc
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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New Jersey Herald:
The New Jersey Herald, which has operated in North Jersey since 1829, is being sold to GateHouse Media — NEWTON - The New Jersey Herald, in operation since 1829, is being sold to GateHouse Media. — In announcing the pending sale to Herald staff Thursday morning, Ralph Oakley …
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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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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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The Next Web, TechCrunch, SlashGear, CBS News, National Review, The Verge, The Hill, New York Times, Gizmodo, Ad Age and FiveThirtyEight, more at Techmeme »
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple updated Apple News+ in iOS 12.3 and macOS 10.14.5 to let subscribers follow publications directly from the News+ catalog — Apple today released a press statement featuring Apple News+ (Apple News Plus) following its initial debut in March with iOS 12.2.
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MacRumors, CNET and AppleInsider
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