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David Marchese / New York Times:
Interview with Graydon Carter, on claims he cut accusations by women from a 2003 Epstein profile: “I didn't invent the system. I just lived by the system” — “I didn't invent the system. I just lived by the system.” — Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein and an editor's power.
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Inside the debate at BBC on how to describe Trump's tweets about the “squad” and why its anchors refrained from calling them racist while some reporters did not — “Our role is to be the platform on which the British people will have the argument. I don't want us to be sucked in by the Twitter mob."
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Source: BuzzFeed has agreed to voluntarily recognize the BuzzFeed News union, following months of negotiations and a walkout by staffers last month — - Employees had staged walkout in June to pressure company — Agreement is part of wave of unioning at digital-media sites
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
CBS dropped by DirectTV Now in all markets and for DirecTV and AT&T U-Verse customers in 17 markets, after AT&T and CBS fail to strike a new carriage deal — CBS Sports Network was all removed from all DirecTV & legacy DIRECTV NOW plans — The Streamable is reader-supported …
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CBS Corporation, Bloomberg, CNET and @kenyaj121, Thanks:@thestreamable
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Nostalgia for the old “good” internet may be misplaced because it nurtured trolling, which trained users not to take posts seriously, feeding radicalization — Syracuse's Whitney Phillips — scholar of the darker corners of Internet culture, author of “The Oxygen of Amplification …
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Sky Lebron / Columbia Journalism Review:
Young female journalists describe phone calls they have received from an apparent fake recruiter who dangles TV job offers and asks intimate questions — One Sunday night last fall, Courtney Mims was out with a friend when “No Caller ID” flashed across her phone.
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@skylerlebron, @terricoles_ and @spj_3
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
An overview of the food TV landscape, which, with more than 100 shows in production, is consistently popular across linear TV and streaming platforms — In response to a global appetite, networks and increasingly streamers are battling for camera-friendly chefs — from Gordon Ramsay to Padma Lakshmi …
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@thr, @kimseverson and Eater
Andrew Liptak / The Verge:
Some publishers are demanding Audible to exclude their audiobooks from Captions, Audible's upcoming AI-powered transcriptions feature, citing copyright claims — Some are asking for their books to be withheld from the feature — Earlier this week, Audible revealed that it was working …
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@annemariebridy, Publishers Weekly and Bookseller News
Clarence Leong / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists covering the protests in Hong Kong describe being targeted by police and teargassed, pepper-sprayed, and beaten with batons — On June 12, Chong Man-lung, a contract driver, arrived at Hong Kong's government complex ferrying a reporter for Radio Television Hong Kong.
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@hwclarence
Wall Street Journal:
The Google Transparency Report, a searchable database of political ads, has errors, delays, and failures in recording political ads bought with Google's tools — Mistakes have occurred in the Google Transparency Report for both Democratic and Republican presidential and congressional candidates
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Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen says Pluto TV, Tubi, and Xumo are in talks to use its ad ratings; sources: Nielsen is in talks with Roku, Pluto TV, and Tubi to add its content ratings — A lack of outside verification has frustrated marketers — Netflix Inc. only selectively releases unverifiable viewership numbers …
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@megancgraham and @sizpatel
New York Post:
Sources: GateHouse Media, owned by Fortress Investment Group, is nearing a deal to buy Gannett, which would create the biggest newspaper chain in the US — GateHouse Media and its publicly traded publisher New Media Investment Group is deep in talks to buy USA Today owner Gannett …
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