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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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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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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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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Snapchat extends its skippable ads limit to three minutes from ten seconds; non-skippable six-second ads within shows now let users swipe up for related actions — At Advertising Week, company makes adjustments to its commercial formats — Snapchat is relaxing its time constraints for ads …
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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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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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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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Leo Kelion / BBC:
EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally — The EU's top court has ruled that Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally. — It means the firm only needs to remove links from its search results in Europe …
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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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The Spotify for Artists app on iOS and Android gets a big revamp with real-time listening stats, after Apple's artist dashboard exited beta last month — Spotify this morning is rolling out an updated version of its app for artists, across both iOS and Android.
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Knight Foundation:
The Seattle Times Investigative Journalism Fund raises $500,000 to hire an editor and two reporters, via local donations and $250,000 from the Knight Foundation — Fund reached first fundraising goal of $500,000 with community support and $250,000 Knight Foundation investment
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