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Sources: Rupert Murdoch, co-chairman of Fox Corporation, is recovering from pneumonia, but is doing well and is expected to call into a board meeting on Friday — New York (CNN Business)Rupert Murdoch, the 88-year-old billionaire media mogul, is recovering after a bout with pneumonia …
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@oliverdarcy and @anthony
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says he wrote in the WSJ about Trump's accusation of “treason” to reach a new audience; “I give them a lot of credit for running it” — Murdoch's paper is a fierce competitor to Sulzberger's Times. But Trump raised the stakes …
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@jessepesta and @joepompeo
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
In a report, the ICO, UK's data protection regulator, says the real time bidding ad industry is undermining GDPR and failing to protect sensitive personal data — The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling Internet users. — That's the damning assessment …
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Digiday, @mikarv, @wolfiechristl, Information Commissioner's …, @actaeon169, @wolfiechristl, @wolfiechristl, @wolfiechristl and ico.org.uk
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Twitter disabling location data for tweets is a win for privacy but a loss for journalists, researchers as it helped find eyewitnesses and track disinformation — When Twitter wants to announce a change in how it does things, how should they announce it? With a tweet, naturally …
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VICE, @firstdraftnews, @wexler, @stuartathompson, @elanazak, The Daily Dot, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Aditi Sangal / Digiday:
Interview with Sarah Personette, Twitter's VP of global client solutions, on brand safety, election integrity, and the company's openness to more regulation — In the last year, Twitter and Facebook have been scrutinized for the lack of brand-safe environments for advertisers.
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@jason_kint
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
News sites across the political spectrum, from the Daily Caller to AlterNet, form the Digital News Alliance, an ad network to target politically engaged readers — Digital News Alliance combines left-leaning, conservative and centrist publishers — Political advertising makes strange bedfellows.
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Mediaite, Nieman Lab, The Drum, @danabrams, @karenmcgrane, The Wrap, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
Olivier Holmey / Nieman Lab:
Three-year-old French news site Les Jours serializes the news, breaking long-form investigative stories down into accessible, nail-biting episodes — “Serial” isn't just a podcast: It's also the format hook Les Jours uses to bring some of the lessons of drama to long-form investigative reporting.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
WGA stops negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents, in favor of individual talks with top nine agencies as it seeks a ban on packaging fees for agents — The Writers Guild of America has called off negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents in favor of pursuing individual talks …
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TVWeek.com, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and The Wrap
Stephen Gregory / The Epoch Times:
The Epoch Times publisher says NBC reporters have been asking “inappropriate” questions of staff about the publication's Trump coverage and ties to Falun Gong — Last week, we were contacted by two NBC reporters who posed a series of highly inappropriate questions.
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Mediaite, @epochtimes, @jj_mccullough, @stephenepoch and @maxwelltani
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Branded content project: among nearly 40 local news organizations, 23.1% generated $10K-$100K, 20.5% generated $1M-$5M in 2018 from branded content — The Local Media Consortium and Local Media Association recently announced results from their first Branded Content Project …
Hamza Shaban / Washington Post:
Pew survey of US adults: 66% say social networks should police offensive content but 69% have little to no confidence they will correctly identify such content — Most Americans believe social media companies have a responsibility to remove offensive content from their platforms.
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@posttech, Gizmodo, New York Times and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Fuse Media to exit Chapter 11 in the coming weeks after a federal court approves its bankruptcy exit plan, which includes reducing debt by ~$200M — Court approves exit plan, programmer says will emerge in the ‘coming weeks’ — Latino and multicultural youth-oriented programmer Fuse Media …
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