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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
CNN hires former GOP congressman Sean Duffy as a paid contributor, who immediately floats CNN-debunked conspiracy theory pushed by the White House on first day — In two separate CNN appearances, in his first 24 hours as a paid pundit, the ex-congressman pushed the president's unfounded CrowdStrike theory.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook now requires some page owners to disclose the orgs running them and if they're tied to state-owned media, will add labels to pages run by state media — Heaven forbid a political candidate's Facebook account gets hacked. They might spread disinformation...like they're already allowed to do in Facebook ads...
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Facebook says it will more prominently label content that fact-checkers deem false on Facebook and Instagram, will ban ads suggesting voting is pointless
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Kate Storey / Esquire:
Inside Bustle Media Group CEO Bryan Goldberg's ill-fated attempt to relaunch Gawker, which started with no clear plan and was plagued by scandals — Last year, Bryan Goldberg revealed big plans for his relaunch of Gawker, then postponed it indefinitely while laying off the whole staff.
Corey Hutchins / The Colorado Independent:
A look at the Colorado Media Project's new report, Local News is a Public Good, which recommends public funding to support independent local journalism — On Monday, members of the Colorado Media Project took questions at CU Denver about the group's new report “Local News is a Public Good” …
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Carol Thompson / Lansing State Journal:
Network of ~40 websites branded as Michigan local news launched this fall with neutral names like Lansing Sun and Ann Arbor Times but offer political messaging — LANSING — Dozens of websites branded as local news outlets launched throughout Michigan this fall, with monikers like Lansing Sun …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: despite Catch and Kill controversy, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim signed a new contract “in recent months” and is expected to succeed Andy Lack — Instead of breaking the big story, NBC News has become the big story. The network's top brass, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon is giving away Disney+ for free for one year to all of its wireless customers on unlimited-data plans and to FiOS and 5G home internet customers — New Fios broadband, 5G home wireless internet customers also eligible for 12-month free offer — Verizon is giving away Disney Plus …
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Wall Street Journal:
Online influencers are expected to make $4.1B-$8.2B in 2019, but with no good way to measure sales, some advertisers are questioning whether it's worth it — Billions are paid to social-media personalities to pitch products in an influencer economy riddled with deceit
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Harper's names executive editor and author Christopher Beha to the top editor position, the magazine's fifth full-time editor since 2006 — Harper's Magazine has a new editor, effective next Monday: Christopher Beha, a novelist, essayist and the author of a memoir recounting the year …
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Roku to buy ad tech platform Dataxu, which provides software for managing ad campaigns programmatically across digital platforms, for $150M in cash and stock — - Dataxu provides marketers with automated bidding and self-serve software to manage ad campaigns programmatically across digital platforms.
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Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:
IAB and PwC: US online ad spending reached $57.9B in H1 2019, up 16.9% year-over-year but lower than the 23.1% growth in the same period last year — Mobile ad revenues were $39.9 billion or 69% of the total. — U.S. online ad spending reached $57.9 billion, representing growth of 16.9% year-over-year …
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
New York state lawmakers have proposed a requirement that any cable company operating in the state offer an independently produced local news channel — Legislators are proposing a first-in-the-nation bill to force cable companies to offer independent local news.
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New York Post:
Sources: the DOJ is weighing a probe of Comcast for its decision to drop Starz from Xfinity TV after Starz began selling directly to viewers through streamers — The Department of Justice is weighing a probe into Comcast's threats to charge consumers extra for movie channel Starz …
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