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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.
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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
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@vox_union, @ohnorosco, @migueldeicaza, @stefanietuder, @rj_writes, @gaywonk, @alex_kirshner, @lgbtqfc, @drvox 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
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@germanrlopez, American Press Institute, @petersterne, @stevenkjohnson, @joshhterry, @fffffrida, @letsgomathias, @josheidelson, @dlind, @gmgunion, @timebner, @mskellymhayes, @charliemagne, @thesarahkelly, @iwwfju, @lukewsavage, @kath_krueger, @attackerman, @zzzzaaaacccchhh, @samleecole, @rachelysanders, @dianaelbasha, @jmsummers, @austinhunt, @attackerman, @sarahmccammon, @brandonetc, Mediaite, bookforum.com, HuffPost and The Wrap
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Maker Media, the company behind Make: magazine and the festival Maker Faire, is laying off all of its 22 employees and pausing all operations — Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire …
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@amyh70, @palmerluckey, @msenese, @kfury, @stevesilberman, @iancoldwater, @joshconstine and @calebkraft
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 …
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Toronto Star, @pressfreedom, CNET and The Guardian
Stephanie Busari / CNN:
Liberia blocks AP's website, social media including WhatsApp and Snapchat, and Gmail amid anti-government protests, says it has restored some services — Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Thousands of Liberians gathered in the capital Monrovia Friday to protest “corruption and creeping dictatorship” in the country.
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NetBlocks, @netblocks, @markc_anderson, Committee to Protect …, @netblocks, @cnn and Quartz
Noreen Malone / The Cut:
Why comments by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg about cover stories and white men struck such a nerve: he used the language of well-meaning condescension — A few years ago, someone introduced me at a party to a man — a swaggering, posh-leftist, real type of a man — who worked on “long form” …
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@laurahazardowen and Deadspin
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:
@backlon, @tomwarren, Business Insider, @clairenjax and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
Reuters:
DOJ again opens review of decades-old consent decrees governing music licensing groups ASCAP, BMI on whether they should be maintained, modified, or terminated — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it would review two consent decrees reached with music licensing groups ASCAP …
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
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.
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 …
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