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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT updates its article on the history of the Tea Party with an insubstantial sentence referring to the movement's links to racism following complaints — The New York Times story by Jeremy W. Peters on tea-party history is extensive and well-written. And it featured a hole …
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@nytpolitics, New York Times, @tomperriello, @wesleylowery, @paulkrugman, Splinter, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Plex to launch an ad-supported streaming service this year, plans to begin reselling video subscription services and add transactional VOD, in H1 2020 — Get ready for yet another ad-supported video service: Media center app maker Plex is gearing up to add free movies and TV shows to its app …
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TechCrunch and Multichannel News, more at Techmeme »
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Kinzen, which initially built a consumer app for curated news, is now helping publishers offer personalized news on their own platforms, newsletters, and sites — When Mark Little and Áine Kerr first began thinking about developing a news product, they started going where many people had gone before …
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@sarahmarshall, @nhelberger, @kirstinestewart and @marklittlenews
Kelsey Sutton / Adweek:
All YouTube original content released after Sept. 24 will be available to watch free with ads for a certain time, starting with Karate Kid spinoff Cobra Kai — All new series released after Sept. 24 will be available to watch for free — YouTube is moving the first season …
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Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Financial Times and The A.V. Club
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
NYT's Amy Chozick to co-author and co-produce The Girls on the Bus for Netflix, a fictional show about female reporters on the campaign trail — ‘The Girls on the Bus’ will be inspired by a chapter from New York Times journalist Amy Chozick's book, with the author attached as a writer.
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@amychozick, Variety, Deadline and Jezebel
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump accuses Fox News of “heavily promoting the Democrats” and urges his Twitter followers to “start looking for a new News Outlet” — President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Fox News, accusing the conservative network of “heavily promoting the Democrats” …
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@realdonaldtrump, @brithume, CNN, @atrupar, CNN, The Week, @jeremymbarr, @windsormann, @jackshafer, @chutry, @tedlieu, @capshower, Hollywood Reporter, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast and Politico
Christopher R. Martin / Nieman Reports:
As newspapers wrote off working class readers in the '60s, and with no labor coverage in network/cable news, it's become clear more labor reporters are needed — A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today
Discussion:
American Press Institute, @68dodgecoronet, @faduda and bookforum.com
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
John Carreyrou has left WSJ after almost 20 years, citing the paper's ban on paid speaking engagements, in place to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest — The man who exposed Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes has left the paper he's called home for 20 years.
Discussion:
Talking Biz News and @bobbierman
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr / Breaking Defense:
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds first televised Pentagon press briefing in over a year: “I intend to do these briefings to maintain an open dialogue” — In a media-wary administration, the big news from Defense Secretary Mark Esper's formal press briefing was that he actually held one, and pledged to keep doing so.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu launches its live TV guide on the web, Roku, and Apple TV, and says the Live Guide is coming to other platforms soon — Yesterday, Hulu began rolling out an updated version of its mobile app sporting the brand-new interface the company first unveiled at CES in January.
Discussion:
The Streamable, Engadget, 9to5Mac and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »
Sophie Kleeman / VICE:
A-list celebrities, from Will Smith to Zac Efron to Alexa Chung, have recently become YouTube vloggers, adopting the feel of authenticity for the new medium — Over the past 20 or so months, some of the biggest stars in the world have turned to something people do to get famous in the first place: vlogging.
Discussion:
@mattnavarra and @dory_carrharris, more at Techmeme »
Jeanine Santucci / USA Today:
Beto O'Rourke's staff removed a Breitbart writer from a campaign event, later saying site “walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech” — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's staff had a Breitbart News writer removed from an event in South Carolina on Tuesday.
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