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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Facebook says it is deleting mentions of the name of the whistleblower who prompted Trump impeachment inquiry, will reconsider if the name gets widely published — Facebook says it is deleting the name of the person who has been identified in conservative circles as the whistleblower …
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The Correspondent:
Skeptics say effectiveness of online ads is misleading because the benchmarks marketers use don't distinguish people buying due to ads and those buying anyway — Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
YouTube has run the Trump ad wrongly accusing Biden of corruption, which was seen 10M-30M times, but Google says it strives to ensure ads are “honest” — (CNN Business)You'd be forgiven for thinking that the only tech platform that allows politicians to run false ads is Facebook.
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Politico, The Hill, Vanity Fair, @donie and The Independent, more at Techmeme »
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Two former G/O Media executives have sued the company, claiming CEO Jim Spanfeller mistreated women at the company by pushing them out and hiring “cronies” — One sales executive alleges she lost half of her assignments after the CEO replaced her with a former colleague from Playboy.
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Awful Announcing, Current Affairs, @zackkopplin, @asankin, @theisen95, @themadstone, @silviakillings, @jeremymbarr and New Republic
Greg Dool / Folio:
Meredith Q1: operating profit of $28M, up from $18.1M YoY, on revenue of $532.9M; print ad rev down 13.4% YoY to $160.4M; digital ad rev up 7.9% to $91.6M — On its Q1 earnings call, the company says four titles saw year-over-year growth in print advertising, and portfolio-wide newsstand revenue also increased.
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MediaPost, San Francisco Chronicle and Motley Fool
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The press tends to repeat words used by politicians, so the term “quid pro quo” dominates impeachment coverage when “bribery” or “extortion” is more precise — In recent weeks, as the term “quid pro quo” has rattled around the news cycle, journalists have sought to explain what it means.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, @brianschatz, @joshtpm, CNN, The Week, Mediaite and ABC17NEWS
Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Internal memo: if Michael Bloomberg runs for president, a management committee would run his company, similar to how Bloomberg handled his tenure as NYC mayor — A similar management committee ran the company during the 12 years that Bloomberg served as the mayor of New York.
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Talking Biz News, Politico and Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Two impeachment witnesses called key elements of John Solomon's columns on Ukraine false; Giuliani once sent a Solomon column, pre-publication, to Daily Beast — Hannity's favorite “investigative” reporter's columns formed the basis for Trump allies like Rudy Giuliani's messaging about Biden and Democrats.
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@noahshachtman, @kpoulsen, @dandrezner and @haydenblack
Wall Street Journal:
On The Morning Show, Apple products are visible in an average of 32 camera shots per episode and the logo is visible in roughly one third of the shots — iPhones, iPads and Macs share the screen with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in ‘The Morning Show’
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Fox News host Mark Levin participated in two GOP campaign events this month despite Fox claiming in 2018 that it didn't “condone any talent” doing so — Fox host Lawrence Jones is also set to speak at a GOP fundraiser — Fox News host Mark Levin headlined a campaign rally …
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@revrrlewis, Washington Examiner, The Wrap and The Daily Beast
Tiffany Stevens / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interviews with reporters on how their work disappears from the web or becomes cannibalized when online publications shutter or restructure — “Nothing disappears on the Internet,” people like to say, but journalists know that's not necessarily true. Articles frequently disappear when online publications shutter or restructure.
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@tiffanymstevens, @jessicawakeman, @moorehn and @jfsklar
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News guest named Ukraine whistleblower, says he received no pushback from Fox, which states it hasn't confirmed or verified the whistleblower's identity — The guest, radio host Lars Larson, made the comment during Harris Faulkner's afternoon show. — A Fox News guest …
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, @oliverdarcy, @chuckrossdc and @afp
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