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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC Director-General Tony Hall says he's overturning the decision to censure host Naga Munchetty over her response to Trump's racist comments — Corporation director general Tony Hall emails staff to say he is overturning ruling over impartiality guidelines
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Leaked messages show the complaint that led to BBC disciplining Naga Munchetty was also about her co-host, Dan Walker, despite the BBC saying otherwise
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook is planning to pay only about a quarter of the 200 publishers that will be featured in its news tab, set to launch as soon as the end of Oct. — Social-media giant plans to pay about a quarter of news organizations whose content will be featured
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple News+ launches in the UK and Australia for £9.99 and AU$14.99 per month respectively, with over 150 publications on board — Apple News+, Apple's subscription news and magazine service, has launched for users who live in the UK and Australia, Apple announced today.
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Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios announces a deal to buy 11 regional broadcast stations from USA Television for $290M — Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios on Tuesday announced a deal to acquire 11 broadcast television stations from USA Television Holdings LLC and USA Television MidAmerica Holdings LLC for $290 million.
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Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook plans to let opinion pieces and satire be exempted from its fact-checking program, preventing such content from being labeled false — Move follows controversy over fact-checking of posts on abortion, climate change — Facebook Inc. FB .55% plans to exempt opinion pieces …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
After Kansas City Star finds success in driving subscriptions via expanded opinion offerings, McClatchy aims to replicate that success in its 29 other newsrooms — In early 2017, as editorial pages were coming to be the latest focus of newsroom job cuts, the Kansas City Star went the opposite direction …
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@dougfisher, American Press Institute and @spj_tweets
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU top court rules that active consent is needed for non-essential cookies, like tracking cookies for targeted ads, rendering pre-checked consent boxes illegal — Europe's top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid.
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Bloomberg Law:
NLRB sues The Federalist's parent company, after the magazine's publisher tweeted in June that he would send staff “back to the salt mine” if they unionized — The federal government wants the publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist to delete his apparently anti-union June 6 tweet.
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@mattdpearce and Reason
Samantha Subin / dbknews.com:
The Diamondback, the University of Maryland's 110-year-old student newspaper, is ending its print edition; it has eight times more digital than print readers — After 110 years in circulation, The Diamondback will cease its weekly print publication in March, the newspaper's parent company announced Monday.
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Dish drops NBC Sports Chicago; Dish VP says, “the regional sports model has been broken for years” — NBC Sports Chicago has been blacked out to subscribers of Dish Network and its Sling TV streaming service. — Dish said that it offered to continue to carry the regional sports channel …
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Multichannel News and The Streamable
Reuters:
Sources: FreeWheel, Comcast's video ads division, has talked to a congressional task force and accused Google of limiting its ability to sell ads on YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), one of America's largest media and communications companies …
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@danielpmcdermot and @fightfortheftr
The Daily Beast:
Biden campaign officials write to the major networks including NBC, CBS, and CNN, demanding that they stop booking Rudy Giuliani because he “will knowingly” lie — In a Sunday letter, the former vice president's aides say that it is editorially irresponsible to book the president's personal lawyer.
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