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5:15 PM ET, July 3, 2019

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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
UK competition agency launches investigation into how Google and Facebook collect and use user data and if they've abused their power to dominate the ad market  —  Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data  —  The UK competition watchdog has launched …
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Despite diversity in presidential candidates, punditry still belongs to guys who give us mediocre analysis, grotesque speech on women, and cluelessness on race  —  In past weeks, the curtain has officially been raised on the vast and diverse field of candidates for the Democratic nomination …
Kali Hays / WWD:
Sources: W staffers were first given one day to sign on to work for Future, later extended to two; all contracts stipulate a three-month “introductory period”  —  Goodbye Condé Nast and “Summer Fridays.”  Hello a “revenue-comes-first” editorial outlook.  —  Saoirse Ronan on W's cover in 2019
Tara Lachapelle / Bloomberg:
Box Office Mojo: $5.62B of tickets have been sold in H1 2019, a 10% fall YoY; Disney drove one third of ticket sales, not including 21st Century Fox movies  —  Disney's streak of blockbusters hasn't yet reversed a tough year for the box office and cinema chains such as AMC Entertainment.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Breitbart News has continued to lose advertisers and traffic, bottoming out at 4.6M unique visitors in May, down from 17.3M at the start of 2017, per Comscore  —  In January 2017, Breitbart.com was flying high.  Donald Trump, the candidate it had backed during the 2016 campaign, was sworn in as president.
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
In a survey of 1,000 American adults, 33% said the news media was “the enemy of the people” while 67% said it was an important part of democracy  —  One-third of Americans say the news media is “the enemy of the people,” according to a new Hill-Harris X poll survey.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Guardian News and Media reported a median pay gap of 4.9%, favoring men, in April 2019, down from 8.4% in 2018, and 12.1% in 2017  —  The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers has cut its gender pay gap by 40 per cent in the past year.  —  Guardian News and Media reported a median pay gap …
Discussion: Press Gazette and Financial Times
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey of news media employment between January and June 2019: thousands laid off or offered buyouts; the industry is on course for its worst year since 2009  —  Between January and May this year, approximately 3,000 people working in the news industry were laid off or offered a buyout.
Andrew Murfett / LinkedIn:
David Haskell, editor of New York magazine, talks about publishing E. Jean Carroll's story, why he redid his first cover a week after it hit newsstands, more  —  David Haskell joined New York magazine in 2007, and quickly began to climb the rungs of the seminal publication.
Discussion: @amurfett, Thanks:@chipcutter
Travis Yeh / Facebook:
Facebook updates News Feed ranking algorithm to reduce the distribution of sensational health claims or promotion of products with health-related claims  —  People come together on Facebook to talk about, advocate for, and connect around things like nutrition, fitness and health issues.
 
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