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Vox Media has agreed to acquire New York Media, publisher of New York magazine and websites The Cut, Grub Street, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Vulture — After more than 50 years of chronicling the highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant and despicable characters of the city whose name it took, New York Magazine has a new owner.
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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016 — Comscore and its former CEO Serge Matta were charged Tuesday by the SEC with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue …
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong — Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
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Laura Kayali / Politico:
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, the first to transpose EU's new copyright law, says it will instead change the way articles appear in search results — Google will not pay press publishers in France to display their content and will instead change the way articles appear in search results …
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Leo Kelion / BBC:
EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally
EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
NYT's Declan Walsh describes the incident that led him to flee Egypt, after a warning of potential arrest, from a US source who doubted the US would intervene — Times journalists have long relied on the U.S. government to intervene when danger arises abroad. That may no longer be the case.
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A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says the Trump administration was prepared to let Egypt arrest a NYT reporter, calls out Trump's anti-press rhetoric as a global threat
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says the Trump administration was prepared to let Egypt arrest a NYT reporter, calls out Trump's anti-press rhetoric as a global threat
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Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter:
23 fact-checking orgs from 17 countries partner to cover 2019 UN General Assembly; fact checks to be shared for translation and publication in other countries — Thirty-one fact-checkers from 17 countries have agreed to work together this week to cover the 2019 United Nations' General Assembly.
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
As disinformation surges, trust in books is needed more than ever, but most publishers are unwilling to pay for fact checkers despite recent high-profile errors
As disinformation surges, trust in books is needed more than ever, but most publishers are unwilling to pay for fact checkers despite recent high-profile errors
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook says it doesn't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content, generally assuming it is newsworthy, even if it violates Facebook policies — Facebook confirms it won't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content if it's newsworthy even if it violates the site's hatespeech rules or other policies.
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Tony Biasotti / Columbia Journalism Review:
California's new 35-articles-per-newspaper annual limit for freelancers is meant to protect staff writers by distinguishing between them and freelancers — California Assembly Bill 5, in its original language, seemed as though it could end freelance journalism in the state.
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Ruaridh Nicoll / The Guardian:
An Associated Press photographer in Haiti, Dieu-Nalio Chery, was wounded Monday when a Haitian senator fired a pistol amid a confrontation with protesters — Play Video — Two men including a photojournalist have been shot and injured by a Haitian senator who opened fire outside the country's parliament …
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook's content moderation policies are difficult to apply given the breadth of cases, and poor communication between contractors and FB cripples the system — When actor Burt Reynolds died last September, fans across Instagram and Facebook paid tribute to him by posting his 1972 Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold.
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Great Hill Partners, owners of G/O Media, says the group of former Gawker-owned sites has turned a quarterly operating profit for the first time since 2015 — The bloodbath is over at G/O Media — and it worked. — That's the tough message from the controversial new owner of satirical website The Onion …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump counts on right-wing and mainstream media to amplify his counterpunches amid a scandal, and plenty of outlets let him do it — We've been here before. — It's “lock her up” all over again. It's “no collusion, no obstruction” all over again. — It's all the Trumpian greatest hits: witch hunt, corrupt media, deep state.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
UK's Archant, which publishes The New European, to outsource printing of four daily newspapers and 50 weeklies to News UK, as revenues fell ~30% in four years — Jeff Henry to leave as firm stops printing own titles after more than 170 years — The chief executive of one of Britain's …
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