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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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Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
UK's The Daily Telegraph says those who sign up for its WhatsApp audio briefings are 12x more likely to become paid subscribers than homepage readers — Commuters who engage with personalised voice updates are 12 times more likely to become paying subscribers, according to the publisher
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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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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
AT&T's Xandr, which now owns ad exchange AppNexus, confirms it restored service to Breitbart, nearly three years after it was banned for hate speech violations — 'Breitbart inquired how it could return to our platform, satisfied our requirements, and is reinstated,' a representative said
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 …
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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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.
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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Daniel Green / Journalism.co.uk:
Washington Post video producer shares how the paper found success on TikTok through a “wholesome dad” approach and using a filming style similar to The Office — With its funny videos and memes, the US news site amassed 78k followers in three months, even inspiring teens to want to become journalists
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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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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed introduces MoodFeed, a new way for readers to find content depending on their mood across six options — BuzzFeed is offering readers a new approach to finding content that fits the way they're feeling right now. — It's not the boring old approach of following a link on social media or search …
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