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YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place” — Over the past few years, we've been investing in the policies, resources and products needed to live up to our responsibility …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
YouTube suspends monetization of Steven Crowder's channel after continued review finds “pattern of egregious actions” that are against Partner Program policies — Right-wing performer gay-bashed a Vox reporter for years. They initially declined to do anything, then ‘demonetized’ him …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Craig Newmark gives $6M to Consumer Reports, the largest donation in the history of the 80+ year organization, as it expands its coverage of the tech industry — An entrepreneur who made a fortune thanks to his digital disruption of the newspaper industry has joined forces …
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@craigsilverman, @mlsif, Fast Company and @janebsinger
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Major media outlets, including the Daily Beast and WaPo, fail to fact-check and wrongly report a story about Dutch teenager being euthanized, issue corrections — Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the Pope appeared to tweet about it.
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Politico, Jezebel, @tomgara and New York Post
Peter Greste / The Guardian:
While the Australian laws behind the media raids include a “public interest” defense, the country should instead pass a law explicitly protecting press freedom — Parliament has passed a slew of national security laws that limit and even criminalise the fundamental work of the press
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Nieman Lab, Alliance for Journalists …, @themurdochtimes, @vmp9, Sydney Morning Herald and ABC
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CNN:
Two police raids in two days on Australia's national broadcaster and the home of a prominent journalist raise concerns about press freedom in Australia
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Press Gazette, TVNewser, @thelyonsden, @theprojecttv, BBC, Al Jazeera, @julieposetti, @trevortimm, @macloo and New York Times
ABC:
Federal police raid the Sydney headquarters of Australia's ABC News in relation to claims of publishing classified material in a 2017 series, The Afghan Files
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@thelyonsden, CNN, @jstorycarter, The Guardian, @thelyonsden, ZDNet, @breakfastnews, Rose Jackson, @yassmin_a, @brianstelter, @thelyonsden, Washington Post, @alex_j_bellamy, @lissakjohnson, @thelyonsden, @ggreenwald, @kaitlancollins, @thelyonsden, Reason, @dylanwelch, @dylanwelch, @senator_patrick, @raf_epstein, @thelyonsden, @thelyonsden, @brianstelter, @nitv, @jopuccini, @lizzie_oshea, @timjayliffe, @theacij, @williamsjon, Peta Credlin, Hanan Dover, NPR and The Guardian
Amy He / eMarketer:
In 2019 US consumers will, for the first time, spend more time using their mobile devices than watching TV — For the first time ever, US consumers will spend more time using their mobile devices than watching TV, with smartphone use dominating that time spent.
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Los Angeles Times, Mobile Marketer, Bloomberg, Light Reading and Marketing Dive, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions, strikes a multiyear deal with Spotify to produce exclusive podcasts for the platform — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are the latest to jump into the podcast game, under a pact with Spotify to produce a series …
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CNN, Deadline, Fast Company, The Wrap, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter and Los Angeles Times
Daily Hive:
CNN hires the Toronto Star's Daniel Dale as a reporter on the fact-checking beat in Washington DC — After 11 years, The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale is leaving his position as their Washington bureau chief. — The award-winning political reporter says he will be working with CNN …
Dan Kennedy / wgbh.org:
As GateHouse Media lays off hundreds, considers a merger with Gannett, and consolidates papers, the company seems desperate to reach economies of scale — In his book “The Inevitable,” the technology journalist Kevin Kelly writes, “The future happens very slowly and then all at once.”
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Media Nation and Dan Kennedy
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
As companies like Charter and Comcast shift focus to lucrative broadband services, they are pulling back on discounts used for years to retain TV subscribers — - Charter, Comcast shares rise despite surge in cord cutters — Profits grow as providers show low-profit customers the door
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Awful Announcing and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge issues tentative ruling, sides with Fox in its suit against Netflix alleging it induced Fox executives to breach their contracts to work for Netflix — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge rejects Netflix's view that Fox's employment contracts are tainted with illegality.
Laure Siegel / Club de Mediapart:
Colleagues of Arnaud Dubus, a journalist who died by suicide, cite the working conditions of freelance foreign correspondents among the reasons for his death — A statement co-written by colleagues of Arnaud Dubus from the Thai branch of the “Union de la presse francophone”.
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@reaproy, @ejbeals, @simonallison, @ejbeals, @ejbeals, @leloveluck, @jaomahony, @ejbeals, @carienduplessis and @raniaab
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
State Dept. suspends funding for the Iran Disinformation Project, meant to combat foreign propaganda, after it spread disinformation about journalists, others — Even after spending a year and a half in prison in Tehran, I knew that if I wanted to go on writing about Iran …
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The Guardian, @elise_jordan, @sinatoossi, Jason Rezaian and Mother Jones
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