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Sources: Facebook offered millions to ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post, and Bloomberg to license their content for a Facebook news section to debut in 2019 — Company approached ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post and Bloomberg as it plans to launch news section
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New York Post:
New Media Investment Group's shares fell ~33% between Monday and Wednesday, after the cash and stock acquisition of Gannett was announced, endangering the deal — A $1.4 billion deal to buy USA Today owner Gannett Co. has been so poorly received since it was announced on Monday that executives …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Court docs show Monsanto ran a “fusion center” that monitored a Reuters journalist and encouraged negative reviews of her 2017 book on its Roundup weedkiller — Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
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@dangillmor, @janeferguson5, @kimseverson, @careygillam, @peterhimler, Boing Boing, @davidlwindt, @colinlecher and @gmwatch
Trevor Timm / The Intercept:
A Brazil Supreme Court minister bars the Bolsonaro administration from investigating The Intercept Brasil and Glenn Greenwald for their reporting — In a crucial victory for press freedom in Brazil, Minister Gilmar Mendes, a member of Brazil's Supreme Court, has barred the Bolsonaro administration …
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@trevortimm and @freedomofpress
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS says it is accelerating its rollout of streaming news service CBSN Local to remaining 11 markets by early 2020, ahead of political primaries and elections — Accelerated rollout means local streaming news products in place before primaries — CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive …
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The Wrap, Variety, investors.lionsgate.com and The Streamable
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Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
How Hacker News moderators Daniel Gackle and Scott Bell practice a personal and slow approach, engaging with users in e-mail chains that can last for years — Can a human touch make Silicon Valley's biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place? — Open-plan offices offer few pleasures …
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@willoremus, @garrytan, @cwarzel and @gustaf, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook is testing selling video streaming subscriptions in the US, starting with four services including BritBox, CollegeHumor's Dropout, and Tastemade Plus — Facebook is dipping its toes into the subscription VOD waters — as an aggregator and reseller.
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Vox, @xpangler, @conviva, @mattnavarra, Ad Age, Adweek, The Streamable, The Wrap, Fast Company and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics — Search for what you want to hear — Google is taking the next step in making podcasts easier to find.
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The Keyword, Fast Company, @zkahn, @dzohrob, @ashleyrcarman, @mrpaulbae and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Interviews with members of a 900-strong private Facebook group for advertisers on Facebook and Instagram showcase the unreliability of Facebook's Ad Manager — - Advertisers say system has crashed regularly since November — Social-media company says it's ‘committed’ to fixing issues
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@neptunemoon, @shiraovide, @sarahfrier, @mattmcgee, @kurtwagner8, @herrmanndigital and @matthewstoller, more at Techmeme »
Dave McNary / Variety:
Lionsgate reports Q1 revenue of $963.6M and operating income of $67.3M, beating estimates, amid growth in Starz subscribers to 26.5M, up 2.6M YoY — Lionsgate has posted revenues and operating income above Wall Street projections for its first fiscal quarter of 2019, amid growth …
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The Wrap
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The council of the London borough of Hackney loses a years-long fight to keep printing a free fortnightly paper, as other private newspapers cover the same area — A London council has lost a final appeal to continue publishing its freesheet on a fortnightly basis in rivalry with two local newspapers.
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Hackney Citizen and @allytibbitt
Kim Kelly / Columbia Journalism Review:
Freelancer Kim Kelly describes how NPR parted ways with her citing her “activist stance”, after Tucker Carlson aired a segment about her — My life with heavy metal, Tucker Carlson, NPR, and strong opinions — My first byline was an article for my local newspaper's Teen Voice section …
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@samthielman, NPR, @sethdmichaels, @punkademic, @craignewmark, @ellaguro, @sarahw, @grimkim, @freedarko, @radleybalko, @nberlat, @femmefeministe, @samthielman and Mediaite
Al Jazeera:
Journalists in Kashmir struggle to report due to a communications blackout; most English and Urdu language papers in Srinagar have not published since Monday — Reporters in the disputed region face difficulties due to ban on movement and communications blackout.
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@sonakshaiyengar, @zahidgishkori, @cpjasia, NPR, @imtiazalamsafma, @hasanpatel and Business Insider
David Segal / New York Times:
Profile of James Daunt, who saved Britain's Waterstones bookshop chain from the brink of bankruptcy and who will now try to revive Barnes & Noble as its new CEO — James Daunt fought Amazon and rescued the country's biggest bookstore chain. Now comes Chapter 2.
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@xanalter, @durgaraghunath, @timoreilly, @valancourt_b, @wwatmd, @dada_drummer, @kassiastclair, @lizflock, @kathryndill, @ennisnyt and @kjmcinnis1
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