Mediagazer: PBS CEO Paula Kerger discusses why she isn't afraid of Netflix, sharing Sesame Street with HBO, how to cultivate female CEOs, and responding to #metoo (Vanessa Fuhrmans/Wall Street Journal)

3:10 PM ET, June 15, 2019

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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:

Some ABC TV affiliates posted and promoted Trump “birthday cards”, linking to a site that gathers contact data for his campaign; the story has been taken down — Some of the network's largest affiliates promoted on their websites a ‘birthday card’ for President Trump that is really just a list-building campaign.

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Megan Garber / The Atlantic:

Sarah Sanders said she hoped her legacy would be that she “put forward the president's message” and she did so through her post-truth press conferences — “I know it's hard for you to understand even short sentences, I guess, but please don't take my words out of context."

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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
President Trump announces on Twitter that Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will leave the White House at the end of the month

Marcela Kunova / Journalism.co.uk:

A Facebook director of news partnerships says Facebook is compiling a list of trustworthy sources, including individual journalists, not just media outlets — The social media platform will help media organisations monetise content, including a dedicated space for news and a Facebook-powered subscription tool

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David Neiwert / Daily Koz:

David Neiwert remains suspended by Twitter for his header image of KKK hoods from his book cover; he says Twitter punishes the fight against white supremacism — Having reached Day 4 (and counting) of my suspension from Twitter for posting the image of Klan-hooded stars from the cover …

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Vanessa Fuhrmans / Wall Street Journal:

PBS CEO Paula Kerger discusses why she isn't afraid of Netflix, sharing Sesame Street with HBO, how to cultivate female CEOs, and responding to #metoo — When Paula Kerger took over as chief executive of PBS in 2006, “Downton Abbey” hadn't yet made its debut and Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley were mainstays.

Max Willens / Digiday:

BuzzFeed forecasts $260M in sales in 2019 from branded products sold in stores; Tasty has partnered with food companies to launch food products and meal kits — BuzzFeed has found success in licensing its Tasty food brand across different consumer products including food, kitchenware and cookbooks.

Discussion: @digiday, @media_evan and @tomgara

Bloomberg:

Sources: BuzzFeed News employees are planning to stage a walkout on Monday, as they negotiate with management to get voluntary recognition of their union — - Employees agreed to unionize in February after job cuts — Vox Media staff walkout earlier this month led to labor deal

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Jessica Patterson / fipp.com:

A look at Readerscope, the NYT's AI-powered tool for advertisers that creates topic clusters and surfaces relationships between those topics and their readers — For publishers, AI-driven tools have largely been used for editorial purposes, to write articles on themes like sports scores, weather forecasts and real estate sales.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Two former Clevver Media employees and Clevver co-founder Jorge Maldonado launch Shared Media, an independent, self-funded YouTube network for millennial women — Here's the latest chapter in the saga of Clevver, the entertainment/lifestyle YouTube network marooned by the shuttering …

Discussion: @xpangler and @danawardonline

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Major news orgs in New Zealand have agreed to rules for covering the Christchurch shooting trial, with the aim of not amplifying white supremacist ideology — As the trial of the man accused of the Christchurch mosque massacres began a few hours ago, New Zealand's major media organizations had a plan.

Discussion: @brooklynmarie, @lauraelizdavis, @jbenton, @jbenton, @research_tim, The Guardian, New Zealand Herald and Gizmodo

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Critics question Alphabet's Jigsaw subsidiary's decision to hire a disinformation vendor to run a campaign during research into state-sponsored disinformation — FOR MORE THAN two years, the notion of social media disinformation campaigns has conjured up images of Russia's Internet Research Agency …

Discussion: Fortune, @sheeraf, @a_greenberg, The Daily Caller and MediaPost

Jason Lynch / Adweek:

Interview with The Ringer's Bill Simmons on podcasts' ad revenue potential, documentary projects in the works, and the evolution of relationships with sponsors — As the outlet celebrates its third anniversary, its founder looks back—and ahead — While several upstart digital media companies …

Discussion: @jcaporoso, @jasonlynch, @kevinmdraper and @markjburns88

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