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Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Refusal to remove fake Pelosi video shows how Facebook confuses simple mistakes with deliberate deception, avoiding its responsibility as a key news distributor — This latest doctored video proves that Facebook as we knew it is over. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Meredith has sold the Sports Illustrated IP rights to Authentic Brands for $110M, will pay a licensing fee to run editorial operations for at least two years — Sports Illustrated over the decades has chronicled stellar match-ups, blow-outs, squeakers, sudden deaths and photo finishes.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Meredith Corp, which put Time, Fortune, Money, and Sports Illustrated up for sale to focus on lifestyle and celebrity magazines — Meredith tries to navigate a collapsing business by dropping news-driven prestige titles in favor of lifestyle and celebrity magazines like Happy Paws and People
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump cites a tweet by NYU professor Ian Bremmer, in which Bremmer faked a Trump quote as a joke, to argue that libel laws need to change — President Donald Trump on Monday slammed pundit, journalist, and New York University professor Ian Bremmer for publishing a “completely ludicrous quote” that he attributed to him.
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Peter S. Green / New York Times:
Czech energy magnate Daniel Kretinsky buys a 13% stake in Le Monde and its sibling publications; some in the newsroom are troubled by the deal's opaqueness — PARIS — Blaise Gauquelin, the Central Europe correspondent for Le Monde, called his editor at the paper's Paris headquarters …
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Matthew Wall / BBC:
Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic …
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Fortune, Telecompaper, Data Protection Commission and @jason_kint
Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:
SoundCloud acquires rights management platform Repost Network, which is used by over 20M audio creators and offers content distribution to over 25 stores — SoundCloud, the audio platform company started in Berlin back in 2007, has acquired rights management and distribution company Repost Network …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
How The New Orleans Advocate expanded rapidly: by buying out competitor The Times-Picayune and absorbing its news staff, savvy and hands-off ownership, and more — Even before owners of The New Orleans Advocate bought the assets of its competitor, The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com …
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Eddie Kim / MEL Magazine:
The Pirate Bay, the iconic torrent site born in 2003, remains an online juggernaut despite blockages in multiple countries and millions of dollars in fines — As the internet continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate, one thing always remains constant — The Pirate Bay
Maria Danilova / Columbia Journalism Review:
How independent Russian journalists use online platforms such as YouTube, Meduza, and the Insider to report on problems the government doesn't want exposed — On March 25, 2018, a massive fire tore through a busy four-story shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo.
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@cpj_eurasia and @cjr
Zachary Stauffer / The Atlantic:
FOIA documents, obtained by documentary producer investigating the death of a US Navy pilot, show resistance to critical reporting even when safety is at stake — At first, the 2014 crash of a U.S. Navy helicopter off the coast of Virginia seemed like an unfortunate—but nevertheless fairly routine—training accident.
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@adriennelaf, @kimmasters, @spytalker, @mike_hixenbaugh and @jasonleopold
Kara Swisher / Vox:
Q&A with Ev Williams, about Twitter, investments by Obvious Ventures, what's working for Medium, and how a better version of social media needs to be invented — “There is a better version of social media to be invented,” Williams said on the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher.
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