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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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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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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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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe — Over years of reporting on internet culture, I've heard countless versions of Mr. Cain's story: an aimless young man — usually white …
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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, @emilybell, @danbarker, @mediaguido, @mathewi and Search Engine Land
Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post:
A look at the debate about streaming Broadway shows, as one service, BroadwayHD, ramps up, offering 300+ shows on Roku, Google Play, and more for $8.99/month — NEW YORK — This would seem like a strange moment to worry about Broadway's future. — The oldest entertainment business in the United States is thriving.
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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.
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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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, @cnn, @markc_anderson, @netblocks, Committee to Protect … and Quartz
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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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 …
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.
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@backlon, @tomwarren, @clairenjax, Business Insider and Boing Boing
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.
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