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Peter Kafka / Vox:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki uses her quarterly letter to defend content that may be controversial but draws a line at problematic content that violates standards — That means the video platform is okay with “content that is outside the mainstream, controversial, or even offensive.”
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YouTube Creator Blog, Business Insider, CNBC, @voxdotcom, CNET, Tubefilter and The Verge
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
YouTube terminates a handful of prominent channels that promoted white nationalism, including four the ADL said spread anti-Semitism and white supremacism — YouTube has terminated a handful of prominent YouTube channels that featured content promoting white nationalism.
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Denver Post, @maureenshaw, @mikestuchbery_, @fred_guttenberg, ThinkProgress, @susanwojcicki, @youtubeinsider and @brianstelter
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Netflix gives The Irishman a 27-day theatrical release window, its longest yet, starting November 1; major movie chains like AMC and Regal will not carry it — BREAKING: In its most ambitious ever theatrical rollout plan for one of its original productions, Netflix will give The Irishman …
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Variety, The Wrap, @theirishmanfilm, Hollywood Reporter, NBC News, Business Insider, /Film, The Playlist, New York Times, Esquire, The Week, The A.V. Club and UPI
Bijan Stephen / The Verge:
YouTube says it will not negotiate with the YouTubers Union, which has partnered with IG Metall, a German metalworkers union; Google Germany has offered to meet — Google Germany did, however, invite the union to its headquarters for a meeting — YouTube says that it won't do business …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: The Athletic will start offering one podcast episode per week in front of the paywall, with some advertising; it is launching 40 new podcasts on Tuesday — The Athletic, a subscription-based digital sports media company, will begin experimenting with putting some of its audio content …
Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek:
Documents show TikTok is beta testing a native audience ad network that lets advertisers target users across third-party apps in addition to TikTok — The program is being beta-tested in East Asia right now — TikTok's viral videos of the #GuacDance and kombucha taste tests might soon be used to target you with ads in other apps.
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@shanthikalathil, @kerrymflynn and Tubefilter, more at Techmeme »
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Quillette says controversial writer Andy Ngo is leaving as an editor, hours after the Portland Mercury surfaces incriminating video of Ngo with far-right group — The writer and photog is out of a job after being caught in incriminating undercover footage with right-wing activists.
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VICE, Mediaite, Portland Mercury, @maxfawcett, @willsommer, @martincizmar, @lamthehighway, @kazweida and @igd_news
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Former Time Inc. CEO Rich Battista has been named the new CEO of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment — Rich Battista has been named the CEO of Imagine Entertainment, and will be joining the company immediately, based at its Beverly Hills headquarters.
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Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable and TVWeek.com
Los Angeles Times:
LAT partners with Hollywood Foreign Press Association to launch first LA Press Freedom Week, starting September 16, to highlight threats to a free press — Week-long slate of events Sept. 16-20 will spotlight conversations around press freedom and protection of the First Amendment.
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Q&A with CBS CEO Joe Ianniello on the challenges ahead for ViacomCBS, including whether it will be big enough to compete with other conglomerates — When former CBS Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Leslie Moonves was fired over sexual harassment allegations a year ago …
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@hcoster and @megjameslat
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Questioning Trump's stability based on his pattern of daily lies, distortions, and contradictions is reportorial, not political, in nature — New York (CNN Business)More erratic, more often. — I spent the week talking with major media figures at networks and newspapers.
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New York Times, @goroke_mi, @briankarem, @dloesch, @brianstelter, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast