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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook tightens rules on political advertisers, requiring further identity proof such as tax-identification number or Federal Election Commission registration — Facebook on Wednesday announced it would tighten some of its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election …
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Facebook, TechCrunch, The Verge, @jeremybmerrill, Marketing Land, Engadget, @williamturton, @lachlan and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Q&A with David Karpf, the tenured professor whose “bedbug” tweet prompted NYT's Bret Stephens to copy Karpf's provost on an email complaining about the tweet — David Karpf is a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University in D.C. On Monday night …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC says it will launch a voice assistant built into its website and iPlayer next year, allowing users to use their voices to engage with BBC content — Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch a rival …
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BBC, The Verge, @rasmus_kleis, @ariannahuff, American Press Institute, Gizmodo, RAIN News, CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, MacRumors and Fast Company
Axios:
Adpay data on newspapers: ~$500M in total revenue comes from obituaries; obituary search company Legacy.com says it publishes 1 in 3 obituaries in US — Local newspapers still heavily rely on obituary placements for revenue, according to data from local obituary and advertising placement firm Adpay, which is owned by Ancestry.com.
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@rschallom, @sarafischer and @bmorrissey
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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CNBC, YouTube Creator Blog, @rkyncl, @teabyali, @kodeerants, @voxdotcom, The Wrap, Business Insider, 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
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@jaredlholt, @maureenshaw, @mikestuchbery_, @fred_guttenberg, @susanwojcicki, @youtubeinsider, @brianstelter, VICE, ThinkProgress and Denver Post
Splinter:
Federal judge rules in favor of Gizmodo Media Group in a $100M lawsuit brought by ex-Trump spokesman Jason Miller over a story about a child custody case — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Splinter, the site's managing editor, Katherine Krueger, and the site's parent company …
Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek:
Hudson MX, an ad-tech firm that provides a platform to buy ads on local broadcasters, partners with Comscore to bring its targeting tech to local markets — The partnership sees new-school tech pumped into old-school platforms — Thanks to the advent of ad tech, fine-grained audience targeting …
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Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost and Radio & Television …
Sonaiya Kelley / Los Angeles Times:
USC study of 1,200 popular films between 2007-2018 shows Latinx underrepresentation: 4% of directors, 3% of producers, 4.5% of named or speaking acting roles — While the past few years have been dominated by the narrative that diversity and inclusion on television and in film are moving …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Actress Paz de la Huerta adds Disney, Bob Iger, and ex-CEO Eisner to $60M sexual assault lawsuit against Weinstein, alleging their decision-making enabled him — Nearly a year after first taking the much-accused Harvey Weinstein to court, Paz de la Huerta has today added the Walt Disney Company …
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Hollywood Reporter, Fox News and Vanity Fair
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Inkitt, a crowdsourced publishing platform that has 1.6M readers and 110K writers, raises $16M Series A, and says its reading app Galatea has a run-rate of $6M — The traditional world of publishing has been challenged hard by the digital revolution. Reading as a pastime has been in significant decline …
Sara Firth / The Guardian:
Journalist says covering Syria is demoralizing, as citizens feel alone and reporters expect interviews and graphic footage to never make it to the public — Every day the mounting horrors are broadcast in real time, but it feels like nobody is watching any more
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@inaraorg, @rajaabdulrahim, @brittclennett, @amaramarasingam and @mathewi
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Reporters covering Congress for niche outlets outnumber those from broader-focused publications; their work can raise the alarm on important issues when needed — On a humid Wednesday morning in June , a swarm of press greeted Hope Hicks as she marched into a room on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
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@laura_figueroa, @mgroppe, @mollymckew, @amycarlile, @natseccarlo, @moorehn, @noahchestnut, @noahchestnut, @teaganne_finn, @noahchestnut, @danlamothe, @noahchestnut, @rafat, @rafat, @shirahanau and @johnhendel
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