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Los Angeles Times:
Some videos intended for anti-racist, educational purposes were removed due to YouTube's new rules, highlighting the weaknesses of algorithmic content removal — YouTube's campaign against hateful and racist videos is claiming some unintended victims: researchers and advocates working to expose racist hatemongers.
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Mail Online's head of SEO says its search traffic from Google fell by half after an algorithm change on June 3, and the drop was worse in the UK than in the US — Mail Online has seen its traffic from Google halved after an algorithm change, according to its head of search engine optimisation.
Discussion:
One Man & His Blog, @mathewi, @danbarker, @mediaguido, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable
Bloomberg:
Vox Media staffers reached a tentative labor agreement with the online publisher Friday after 29 hours of negotiation and a one-day walkout — - Deal follows 14 months of negotiations with management — Hundreds of employees took part in walkout on Thursday
Discussion:
@vox_union, @gaywonk, @drvox, @alex_kirshner and Mediaite
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Hundreds of Vox Media workers stage a one-day walkout to pressure management to sign a union contract; an editor says SBNation won't cover the NBA finals Game 3
Discussion:
American Press Institute, @germanrlopez, @petersterne, @fffffrida, @stevenkjohnson, @joshhterry, @letsgomathias, @josheidelson, @dlind, @gmgunion, @timebner, @mskellymhayes, @charliemagne, @thesarahkelly, @iwwfju, @lukewsavage, @kath_krueger, @attackerman, @zzzzaaaacccchhh, @samleecole, @rachelysanders, Mediaite, @dianaelbasha, @jmsummers, @austinhunt, @attackerman, @sarahmccammon, @brandonetc, HuffPost, bookforum.com and The Wrap
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
China has blocked several US, UK, and Canadian news sites, including The Intercept, Guardian, WaPo, HuffPost, Toronto Star, NBC, and Breitbart News — The Chinese government appears to have launched a major new internet crackdown, blocking the country's citizens from accessing The Intercept's website …
Discussion:
CNET and The Guardian
Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot:
Peter Bright, also known as @DrPizza, who was an Ars Technica contributing writer, has been arrested on charges of soliciting sex with children online — Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. — Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online.
Discussion:
Boing Boing, @backlon, @tomwarren and @clairenjax, more at Techmeme »
Lauren Hirsch / CNBC:
Activist firm Elliott Management to buy Barnes & Noble for ~$683M including debt; in the past five years, B&N has lost more than $1 billion in market value — KEY POINTS — Activist firm Elliott Management announced Friday it plans to acquire bookseller Barnes & Noble for roughly $683 million, including debt.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Sports news startup The Athletic plans to expand to the UK, hire a team of ~50 employees by mid-August, will initially focus on Premier League football — Sports subscription publisher The Athletic has pinpointed the U.K. for its first international hub. The direct-to-consumer media company plans …
Discussion:
Awful Announcing and @arainert
DutchNews:
Dutch news aggregator Blendle plans to stop selling individual news articles via micropayments and will focus instead on its premium subscription service — Dutch digital news aggregator Blendle is to stop selling individual news articles for ‘quarters’ and will focus instead on its premium subscription service.
Discussion:
@rafat, @transact_io, @estherkeziat, @bmorrissey and @rkellett
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
News UK has asked the staff at The Sun and The Sun on Sunday to volunteer for redundancies, with possible compulsory redundancies later — News Group Newspapers will initially look for voluntary redundancies to make savings — The publisher of the Sun and the Sun on Sunday is launching …
Discussion:
Press Gazette
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Police arrest Ivan Golunov, a Moscow-based journalist for Latvia's Meduza, claiming he was dealing drugs; Meduza execs say he was framed because of his work — Ivan Golunov held in Moscow after police said they found illegal drugs during search — Russian police have arrested …
Discussion:
@francescaebel, @ichbinilya, The Moscow Times, BuzzFeed News, Committee to Protect …, @andrew__roth, @penamerican, @sanhotree, Meduza.io and @meduza_en
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's Global Radio cut jobs and closed 11 local studios after Ofcom changed its definition of “local” and lowered required quantity of locally produced content — Ongoing cuts to local commercial radio stations across the UK will “add to the serious decline in local news for UK citizens”, MPs declared this week.
Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
Study of 212 leading news organizations in US and Europe finds 69% of newspapers operate some form of online pay model, up just 5.5% in two years — RISJ report found that 69 per cent of US and European newspapers use some form of paywall - but that figure has only risen by 5.5 per cent in two years
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