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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube bans kids from live-streaming video unless accompanied by an adult following NYT report about YouTube's recommendation algorithm for posted videos — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — YouTube is taking additional steps to restrict the possibility that children …
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New York Times:
Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Internal email: Vice Media EIC Jonathan Smith and managing editor Rachel Schallom have been let go after Vice's consolidation of several brands under Vice.com — There was a shake-up in the digital division of Vice Media on Tuesday. — Jonathan Smith, a Vice veteran who had been the editor …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Daily Beast article exposing the man allegedly behind fake Pelosi video sparks debate over whether media should ID private individuals spreading misinformation — A modified video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that started circulating recently—with the vocal track slowed down to make her appear drunk …
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Max Read / New York Magazine:
The Daily Beast confirmed the identity of the uploader of the distorted Pelosi video via a source at Facebook, who apparently accessed private user activity
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Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:
Spotify begins a small scale test of curated podcast playlists to enhance podcast discoverability — This came in overnight. Fresh off its run of podcast company acquisitions, Spotify is now taking a crack at the problem that's perhaps most groaned about in the community: discoverability.
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Nieman Lab, The Verge, @caseynewton and Engadget
Max Willens / Digiday:
Facebook says its tools allowing paywall deployment through Instant Articles are now widely available, tests News Funding for converting paying subs inside FB — Facebook is doing more to help publishers big and small pursue subscriptions, both on and off its platform.
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Instagram says it will now let advertisers promote creators' organic branded content posts as feed ads, extending the reach of influencers — KEY POINTS — Instagram is rolling out a change that will let advertisers promote posts from “influencers,” or users who brands work with to promote their services or products.
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Steve McClellan / MediaPost:
GroupM ad spending forecast: 5.8% growth in 2019 and 4.8% in 2020, excluding political ads; growth to be 8.2% for 2020 with ~$10B in political spending included — GroupM issued a revised ad-spending forecast today for the U.S. predicting underlying growth (which excludes political advertising) of 5.8% for 2019.
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Two reporters laid off from BuzzFeed and HuffPost form an advocacy group, the Save Journalism Project, to raise awareness about big tech's damage to journalism — Two prominent reporters who were recently laid off from digital media outlets are forming a new advocacy group to raise awareness …
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Reuters:
Sources: Google's ad market dominance and its effect on ad tech firms and publishers is one of the areas of the DOJ's possible antitrust investigation — SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ad tech firms and publishers have had to stay in the good graces of Google or risk insolvency.
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Paul Karp / The Guardian:
Australian federal police raided the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst over her reporting on a leaked plan to expand government spying — AFP officers execute search warrant over 2018 report about new powers for intelligence agencies to spy on Australians
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A eulogy for iTunes, launched 18 years ago as a digital jukebox, as Apple sunsets it to make way for Music, TV, and Podcasts apps on the Mac — We are gathered here today to say goodbye to our friend iTunes, who went to the great trash can in the sky on Monday. — It was a gentle, dignified passing.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
At WWDC, Apple splits iTunes into Podcasts, Music, and TV, announces full-text podcast search, and tools to allow publishers to easily port iOS apps to Mac
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James Griffiths / CNN:
In China, June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is nicknamed “internet maintenance day” as websites go dark rather than risk publishing — Hong Kong (CNN)As commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre take place worldwide Tuesday …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
News Corp Australia plans to cut 55 journalists across the country who lack digital skills — Staff told ‘big cuts’ will include 55 editorial posts as executive chairman says newsrooms need ‘new skills’ — News Corp staff will be hit by a widespread round of targeted redundancies, including 55 journalists, within days.
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