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Ethan Zuckerman / My heart's in Accra:
Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, says he plans to leave the MIT Media Lab in May 2020 due to the lab's ties to Jeffrey Epstein — A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that implicate Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky in Jeffrey Epstein's horrific crimes.
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
The number of advertisers on Tucker Carlson Tonight has fallen from 218 companies in Q2 2018 to 107 in Q2 2019 — In keeping with a monthslong trend, the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News program continued this month. — Over the last year, dozens of advertisers …
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The Wrap, @jbenton, Talking Points Memo, @newley and Media Matters for America
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook releases first findings from a conservative bias audit, says initial findings influenced policy changes like creation of a content oversight board — Facebook will release the findings of a roughly year-long conservative bias audit Tuesday, along with changes to its advertising policies as a result, executives tell Axios.
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Slate, @natijomartinez, Wall Street Journal, Media Matters for America, Facebook, Washington Post, @mmfa, Ars Technica, The Week, @melissaryan, @mikeisaac, Breitbart, Politico, @davidcicilline, @jaredlholt, @rashadrobinson, @brianbeutler, @brianbeutler, @danpfeiffer, @jayrosen_nyu, @natijomartinez, @benshapiro, Gizmodo, NB Blog, Multichannel News and Mother Jones, more at Techmeme »
Max Willens / Digiday:
Facebook to hire a small team of journalists to curate a Top News section in its upcoming news tab, which it will begin testing in the US by the end of October — Facebook famously got rid of its “trending topics” editorial team back in 2018. Now, it's again hiring editors — just don't expect “trending 2.0.”
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New York Times, Nieman Lab, Press Gazette, New York Times, The Drum, Axios, Business Insider, @mcwm, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @hshaban, Reclaim The Net, @pfpicardi, @nxthompson, @moorehn, @justmadhu, @elanazak, @mohammadfarooq_, @ow, @rasmus_kleis, Fast Company, Fortune, Variety, Adweek, The Wrap, CNBC, The Verge, Talking Biz News and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media:
Interview with former NDTV Group CEO, Vikram Chandra, on his new venture Editorji, a platform that creates personalized playlists of news video from 15 partners — There's no doubt that the video format and broadcasting changed the face of news altogether.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Google says it will join IAB Europe's framework for GDPR when the Transparency and Consent Framework 2.0 goes live, which is expected by end of Q1 2020 — The industry's attempt to create a standardized framework for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation has been overhauled …
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Multichannel News and AdExchanger
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Brian Karem, Playboy's White House correspondent and a CNN contributor, files a lawsuit against the White House, seeking restoration of his press pass — Playboy White House correspondent Brian Karem on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the White House after his credentials were suspended for a month.
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Washington Post, CNN, @farhip, Talking Points Memo, Politico, @thehill, @briankarem, @briankarem, @boutrousted, The Wrap, Washington Post, Mediaite and Fox News
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Sources: to satisfy regulators, YouTube officials are finalizing plans to end targeted advertisements on videos kids are likely to watch — - The solution could impact ad sales for the video giant — Groups that complained to regulators aren't satisfied by fix
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MediaPost, Engadget, @alistairmbarr, Digital TV Europe, @mmasnick, @hshaban, @josheidelson, Jezebel, Business Insider, Variety and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Han Zhang / New Yorker:
A look at College Daily, a nationalistic Chinese news site producing viral content for Chinese students living overseas, with 1M+ readers a day mostly on WeChat — On a Monday morning in February, members of the staff of College Daily, an online Chinese-language publication for Chinese students living …
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@ourobororoboruo, @johnny_observe, @ks1729, @suilee, @ariahychen, @jessicadrun and Talking Biz News
Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
Chris Duncan, managing director of The Times, on how the paper patiently grows digital subscriber numbers using free trials, samples, and key usage data — In a world of Netflix, Spotify and Amazon Prime, how does a publisher convince readers to pay £26 a month for a digital news subscription?
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Publishers are anticipating a revenue decline as Apple tightens its anti-tracking policies to prevent covert techniques like link decoration and fingerprinting — Apple is on the anti-tracking warpath again. The company has further tightened its anti-tracking policies in order …
Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News:
Pluto TV partners with NFL to create The NFL Channel, which will show highlights and full reels of classic games and recaps of old seasons — The NFL Channel will “celebrate seasons past” with season recaps, classic games and archival episodes of “Hard Knocks”
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Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost and The Streamable
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