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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Paul Maidment resigns as editorial director of G/O Media effective immediately to pursue “an entrepreneurial opportunity” — Paul Maidment says it “has been a great honor” to work at G/O Media. — G/O Media's editorial director Paul Maidment has left the company less than a week …
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Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
G/O's demand that Deadspin stick to sports is foolish, as much of what happens in sports is a result of power, money, and the culture in which athletes operate — Two years ago, Sports Illustrated, which had been a weekly magazine for decades, began publishing just thirty-nine issues a year.
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Mike Wright / Citrus County Chronicle:
Florida county commissioners block funding for a NYT digital subscription for the libraries; one called the paper “fake news” he doesn't want in the county — Citrus County residents reacted strongly over the weekend with the news that county commissioners blocked the library system …
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Washington Post, Nieman Lab, Tampa Bay Times, Fox News, Breitbart, The Guardian, @fatalpolitics, Forbes, @stevelemongello, @jswatz, @justingeorge, @laurahazardowen, Jezebel, @goldengateblond, @jswatz and Raw Story
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Texas Tribune shuts TribTalk, its sister site of contributed opinion pieces and sponsored content, after five years, citing little traffic and social shares — “It was a good sandbox to see if there's a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we'd treat them in a design and workflow way …
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Texas Monthly, The Texas Tribune, @evanasmith, @andylanger, @lpvhouse, @spj_tweets, @niemanlab and The Texas Tribune
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Hill is launching a new “centrist” site, Changing America, which claims to be nonpartisan, with former Smithsonian mag EIC Michael Caruso leading editorial — The Hill, a news outlet that gained notoriety as a font for Ukraine-oriented conspiracy theories …
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@oliverdarcy, @daweiner, @froomkin and @erikwemple
Washington Post:
Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content — Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.
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Business Insider, @drewharwell, @benthompson, MediaNama and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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Michael J. Socolow / Politico:
Journalists shouldn't use TikTok, as doing so promotes a platform that is relying on its users' ignorance of its history of censorship and privacy invasion
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@tonyromm, @alexstamos, New York Times, @kenroth, @elliottzaagman, @eskokilpi, @profcarroll, @lacinajir, @profcarroll, @natcomm, @michaelsocolow, @lauraelizdavis, @michaelsocolow, ABC17NEWS and The Hill
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Sources: Disney will run ads for Starz on the login pages for Disney+ and ESPN+ in exchange for streaming rights for films it had licensed to Starz — At the center of the deal is Star Wars — Disney+ and ESPN+ will run ads promoting the premium TV channel Starz, The Verge has learned.
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Variety, /Film, The Streamable, CNET, The Playlist, Gizmodo, @ballmatthew, Engadget, Collider, @loudmouthjulia and @pkafka
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Sources: James Andrew Miller, who has written books about Saturday Night Live and ESPN, is working on a history of HBO — Author James Andrew Miller, who has done warts-and-all books about Saturday Night Live and ESPN, is working on his next project. — HBO is one of the most significant cultural companies of our time.
Alex Williams / New York Times:
Post #MeToo, signs emerge that glossy men's mags are backpedaling from the formula that kept them at the pinnacle of publishing for a half-century — The boys' club of glossy publishing confronts an identity crisis. — Imagine if Kodak had answered the threat of digital photography by pivoting from film to outdoor grills.
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@ncaplanbricker, @ericacbarnett, @annehelen and @meghan_daum
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Amy Robach says Project Veritas video caught her in “private moment of frustration” because ABC “quashed” 2015 Epstein accuser interview over lack of evidence — The ‘20/20’ co-anchor explained comments she made in a video that was published by Project Veritas.
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Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, TVNewser, Newser, @freepeeper, @kfile, The Daily Beast, @janicedean and The Week
Angelica Mari / ZDNet:
Brazil has the second highest podcast consumption in the world, after the US, with 40% of its internet users having listened to a podcast, per local survey — The country is the second largest market for the format in the world, and players such as Spotify want to capitalize on that growth.
Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal:
A look at a small crew of photojournalists who risk their lives during summer and fall months to photograph the front lines of California's wildfires — Meet a crew of photojournalists who risk their lives during summer and fall months to tell the world the story of these natural disasters
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@nppa, @melissalyttle, @wikifotograf, @kellydonoho, @lisabannon, @arginteanumarc, @yamphoto, @mattzeitlin, @sullyfoto and @mlcalderone
Geoffrey Supran / HEATED:
Twitter bans environmental groups' climate-related ads, but allows Exxon to run what can only be considered issue ads as they don't promote products — But a Harvard researcher says Exxon's ads “epitomize the art” of political advertising. — Welcome to HEATED, a newsletter for people …
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