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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 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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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.
NBC News:
How The Epoch Times, driven by ties to Falun Gong, became a part of Trump's 2020 strategy by spending big on pro-Trump Facebook ads and peddling conspiracies — Started almost two decades ago with a stated mission to “provide information to Chinese communities to help immigrants assimilate …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning to roll out Apple TV+, its subscription service, by November and is considering $9.99/month pricing after a free trial — - Company builds array of new services to augment hardware sales — Apple Inc. plans to roll out the Apple TV+ movie and TV subscription service …
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Financial Times:
Sources: Apple has committed $6B+ for original shows and movies, many featuring huge names, ahead of Apple TV+'s launch, expected within the next two months — Apple has committed more than $6bn for original shows and movies ahead of the launch of its new video streaming service …
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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
How companies like McDonald's and Facebook use podcasts, such as Gizmodo-produced The Sauce, as subtle brand-building efforts meant to entertain and persuade — With podcasts rising in popularity, it's no surprise that companies are producing their own. What's more surprising is that people are actually listening to them.
Pat Caldwell / Malheur Enterprise:
Malheur County officials in Oregon request a criminal investigation into The Malheur Enterprise reporters over after-hours phone calls and emails to officials — The calls come after investigative reports about county economic development projects — UPDATE: A comment from a sheriff's commander …
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:
Profile of The Athletic, which now has 400+ editorial staffers and expects to have ~1M subscribers by 2020; source: a funding in May valued it at about $500M — Alex Mather would like you to know that he loves newspapers. He's loved them since he was a kid growing up in Philadelphia.
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
AT&T launches AT&T TV, its new streaming service separate from DirecTV Now, in 10 pilot markets with prices starting at $60/month with a two-year contract — - Package starts at $60, requires box, broadband and contract — AT&T TV starts as a 10-city pilot ahead of wider launch
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Youngstown, OH newspaper The Vindicator to continue publication as an edition of nearby Tribune Chronicle, which has acquired its name, URL, and subscriber list — Long after the local newspaper business stops making any sense at all, there'll be a lot of powerful brand names …
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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 and The Streamable
@pinboard:
[Thread] Twitter has been running ads from Chinese state news agency Xinhua that aim to discredit protesters in Hong Kong — Every day I go out and see stuff with my own eyes, and then I go to report it on Twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what I saw. Twitter is taking money from Chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against the top Hong Kong protest hashtags pic.twitter.com/6Wb0Km6GOb
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Twitter:
Twitter says it will no longer accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities, but the rule does not apply to “taxpayer-funded entities”
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Altice USA partners with CuriosityStream to bring its science- and history-focused subscription streaming service to all 4.9M Altice customers in 21 states — Altice USA has set a deal with John Hendricks' CuriosityStream to expand distribution of the science- and history-focused subscription streaming service.
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