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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
EIC Megan Greenwell is leaving Deadspin and says G/O Media leaders refused to guarantee Deadspin's editorial independence and told the site to “stick to sports” — The new bosses in charge of what used to be the Gawker network of websites have drastically upended the culture …
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Five years later, a deep dive into Gamergate's origins and how conspiracy-fed trolling tactics it took mainstream are now central to post-truth information wars — On August 15, 2014, an angry 20-something ex-boyfriend published a 9,425-word screed and set in motion a series of vile events that changed the way we fight online.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Despite having canceled two dozen shows in 2019, Netflix is no quicker to drop shows than other networks, with 50% making it to season three, comparable to HBO — With such a huge budget, Netflix only looks like it's pulling the plug sooner — Just a few months after TV critics anointed …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube changes policy: copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via its manual tool — YouTube is making a change to its copyright enforcement policies around music used in videos, which may result in an increased number …
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Knight Foundation:
Survey: Americans are “very” (66%) or “somewhat” (26%) concerned that if a large company bought their local news org, the owners' views would influence coverage — This piece was originally published on Gallup.com on August 15, 2019.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The company emerging from a Gannett-GateHouse merger would have a cost savings goal of $300M each year; that's bad for readers, staff, and democracy — For a local journalist, having your newspaper snapped up by the Gannett chain never was a joyful prospect.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The White House reaffirms its suspension of the press pass of CNN analyst and Playboy correspondent Brian Karem, through September 14; Karem says he will sue — Brian Karem was told by the White House on Friday that his suspension appeal was not successful.
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Rand Fishkin / SparkToro:
Study from clickstream data company, Jumpshot: for the first time, a majority of all browser-based searches on Google.com resulted in zero-clicks — We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time …
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Jon Watkins / fipp.com:
Q&A with Condé Nast VP of Product Lindsay Silver on how the company is evolving its use of AI beyond automating basic tasks like recommendations — ***Join us at the FIPP World Media Congress, taking place from 12-14 November 2019 in Las Vegas, to hear Lindsay Silver share …
Rowland Manthorpe / Sky News:
Highly charged Instagram political ads have been shown to UK teens ages 13-17, with most from Conservatives; children's commissioner calls content irresponsible — Hundreds of ads were shown to 13 to 17-year-olds on Facebook and Instagram, most from the Conservatives featuring Boris Johnson.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Bustle Digital Group's Elite Daily says its daily Snapchat story reached over 20M unique users last month; Insider's daily story attracted 24M users in February — Elite Daily, the Bustle Digital Group-owned Facebook-centric title, has found success on Snapchat.
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David Gilbert / VICE:
Gab experienced a huge growth spurt in H1 2019 as SimilarWeb data shows its traffic between January and July grew almost 200% and unique visitors are up 180% — Gab has experienced a huge growth spurt in the first half of 2019, a worrying sign of the spread of hateful ideologies and radicalization online.
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