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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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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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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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Laura Kayali / Politico:
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews — 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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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
NYT's Mark Thompson warns “print-centric” UK newspapers face mass closures and says it is a myth to blame Facebook and Google for news industry's difficulties — New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson has warned UK newspapers are still too “print-centric” and face mass closures without drastic changes in policy.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
WaPo's Arc strikes a deal with BP, its first non-media customer, to publish articles and videos across 250 internal websites, newsletters, and future mobile app — - Post says Arc revenue will rival subscriptions and advertising — Jeff Bezos has helped the Post recruit and retain engineers
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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
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Al Franken to return to radio with a weekly, one-hour interview show on SiriusXM with figures from politics, entertainment and other fields — Bill Maher is taking heat for posting a photo in reference to Al Franken pretending to grope Leeann Tweeden. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.
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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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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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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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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 …
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