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Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times:
Vetting political ads effectively and consistently at global scale is impossible; Congress should restrict ad targeting to the level of an electoral district — It's not about free speech. — Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
The debate over Facebook's political ads policy has been too US-centric and the company hasn't explained how that policy will work in other countries — What do Zuckerberg's bromides about American values mean to Facebook users in Kashmir or the Philippines? — @juliacarriew Email
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Facebook and Google's self-imposed ban on political ads in Washington state, which led to uneven enforcement and confusing rules, is a cautionary tale for 2020 — A troubling omen for Twitter's global ban — On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it will ban all forms of political advertising starting …
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CNN:
Facebook says it will not fact-check ads by UK political parties and candidates running in December election, but will fact-check political groups like Leave.EU
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Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
IRS approves nonprofit status for Salt Lake Tribune, making it the first legacy paper to make the switch; ownership to be shifted to a public board of directors — The Salt Lake Tribune is now a nonprofit, an unprecedented transformation for a legacy U.S. daily that is intended to bolster …
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Complex Networks, which sells hot sauces in connection to its popular talk show “Hot Ones”, forms Climate, a new division to create products for other companies — Complex Networks is often held up as a role model in digital media for its commitment to building franchises that can be multifaceted businesses.
New York Times:
Trump has integrated Twitter into the fabric of his administration, reshaping the presidency with 11,000+ tweets while in office, lately posting even more often — With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin. “I must, in the strongest of terms …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
BBC says it will establish a new standalone non-profit body to run the Local News Partnership, which will be expanded to cover local councils and NHS trusts — The BBC has laid out plans to expand its local democracy reporting service, recruiting new reporters to cover local councils …
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István / Kinja Changelog:
G/O Media says it will be discontinuing Kinja user pages and that any content posted to them will be deleted in the coming weeks — All blogs running on the kinja.com domain will show a notification about the upcoming changes of Kinja user pages.
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Megan Greenwell / @megreenwell:
Former Deadspin EIC Megan Greenwell says the site no longer employs a single writer or editor
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George P. Slefo / Ad Age:
Meredith sells the remaining 60% stake in the ad tech company Viant, that is has acquired when it bought Time, to Viant's co-founders who owned 40% — The news comes roughly two weeks after Roku said it was buying DSP Dataxu — Viant has acquired itself from media publishing powerhouse Meredith, the companies said Monday.
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John McDermott / New York Times:
How journalists, academics, and opinion writers shunned for their conservative or offensive opinions publish at Quillette, and befriend each other — Depriving people of a platform works — in unexpected ways. — Katie Herzog was a largely unknown freelance journalist living in Seattle.
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Rob Wells / Washington Post:
The role of National Thrift News in uncovering a corruption scandal in the '80s shows trade publications can hold the industries they cover accountable — A small trade publication broke the Keating Five scandal, offering a pathway for investigative journalism in cash-strapped times.
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
GateHouse Media CEO Kirk Davis to leave upon the close of the Gannett-GateHouse merger, according to an internal memo sent from New Media CEO Mike Reed to staff — I posted this on Twitter and Facebook on Thursday, but it seems significant enough that I ought to share it here as well.
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Gabriel Snyder / Columbia Journalism Review:
When NYT reporting gets hijacked by bad-faith actors to push disinformation, the NYT often retreats behind its journalistic standards to avoid responsibility — On May 1, The New York Times carried a story on its front page, “For Biden, a Ukraine Matter That Won't Go Away,” by Kenneth P. Vogel and Iuliia Mendel.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
An explanation of “data voids” in search, based on a Data & Society report, and how understanding them is vital for journalists especially amid breaking news — One day fifteen long years ago, in 2004, some SEO consultants decided to have a contest to determine quién …
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@pizza4justice, @iconycpromo, @scribulatora, @datasociety, @datasociety and @anildash
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