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Max Read / New York Magazine:
Q&A with Jonah Peretti on BuzzFeed in the 2010s: how microtargeting enables polarization, turning points like the Boston Marathon, Steele memo, and unionization — As the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
YouGov survey of five European countries finds Brits are most concerned about fake news and 63% think they're frequently exposed to fake news vs. 28% of Germans — Brits are more worried than their European neighbours about “fake news”, but are the least likely to pay for verified journalism, according to a new Yougov poll.
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@daveclark_afp and @paulrapacioli
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
UK's Press Gazette calls on Electoral Commission to ban the use of newspaper mastheads and copycat formats in election pamphlets, a common practice — Political parties must stop imitating newspapers in their election campaign material to avoid deceiving voters and damaging the reputations of trusted local news titles.
Discussion:
Press Gazette and Sidmouth Herald News
Jack Shafer / Politico:
A subscriber strike for Alden Global Capital newspapers may be in order, to nudge Alden to sell its papers to owners who covet both good journalism and profits — It's not a popular thing to say, but journalism may be approaching the point where dedicated news consumers might take a hard look …
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@tonybiasotti, @reporterclaudia, @mattdpearce, @mattdpearce, @jeffweineros, @mattdpearce, @maghielse, @maghielse, @maghielse, @thenewsan, @samhoisington, @jamesgibney, @mattwelch, @dplymyer, @jackshafer, @elizabethcrisp, @byjonharris, @mathewi, @bosbizdon, @sarphanuzunoglu, @josh_good_, @harrysiegel, @mjenkins, @michaelsocolow, @danvock and @dplymyer
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Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:
Mozilla says it will block the IAB's DigiTrust universal ID, after updating its policies to reject products that let other services track users — Mozilla intends to block the DigiTrust consortium from tracking users in its Firefox browser, a blow for the IAB-led effort to create …
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@simonjharris, @jason_kint, @jarroddicker, @wolfiechristl and @larakiara
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: theSkimm is profitable and projects $30M in revenue this year as it looks for an investor or buyer amid slowing subscriber growth — - Buzzy media darling TheSkimm has been looking for an investor or buyer to accelerate its growth, people familiar with the talks told Business Insider.
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@rafat, @niemanlab and @ashkan
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
Disney+ reinstates the Continue Watching section, having re-added Resume, Restart, and Add to Watchlist, features it removed at launch due to technical issues — When Disney+ launched, it faced several technical problems, with customers taking to social media to share that they weren't able to login to their accounts.
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Variety, Thurrott, 9to5Google, CNET, TechCrunch, ScreenRant and Engadget
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Bloomberg, Trump, and Steyer 2020 campaigns have spent about two-thirds of all candidate media spend so far with $35M, $33.6M, and $54.8M spent respectively — The 2020 campaigns of the three billionaires running for president next year have collectively spent about two-thirds of all ad dollars so far.
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Bloomberg and The Guardian
Leo Kelion / BBC:
US teen says TikTok blocked her from posting after she accused China of putting Muslims into concentration camps; TikTok blames other reasons for the suspension — A US teenager's TikTok video clip accusing China of putting Muslims into “concentration camps” has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network.
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BuzzFeed News, Sky News, @simonowens, @woppa1woppa, @buzzfeedben, @buzzfeedben, Business Insider and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Former executive sues CBS, alleging age and race discrimination; suit says minorities are relegated to sitting in back rows and sometimes excluded from meetings — Ghen Maynard, who developed such shows as ‘Survivor’ and ‘Amazing Race,’ alleges CBS mistreats minorities.
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The Daily Beast and Page Six
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News guest Michael Blake asked why Tucker Carlson was still on Fox, highlighting how Carlson and others made Fox a political actor, damaging its credibility — Fox News host Tucker Carlson is a propagandist, though a clever and savvy one. And on his program Monday night …
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Mother Jones, @nikkimcr, @jeremymbarr, @jeremymbarr, @erikwemple and The Week
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
SCOTUS declines to intervene in defamation suit brought against the National Review, though Alito dissents: it goes “to the very heart of” freedom of the press — A climate scientist may pursue his defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine and a libertarian Washington …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Reuters, @kimberlyrobinsn, @richlowry, CNN and National Review
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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
SCOTUS declines to review 4-3 ruling from Maryland court that refused a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose case gained widespread attention from the Serial podcast
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The Week, Baltimore Sun, @bobbyallyn, New York Post, Vox, CNN, CNBC, VICE, The Independent, WTVQ-TV and Boing Boing
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Genvid Technologies raises $27M Series B for its interactive streaming platform, which helps users monetize livestreams via sponsorships and in-stream purchases — Genvid Technologies has raised $27 million in funding for its interactive streaming engine. Galaxy Interactive …
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@yangcliu, PR Newswire, @novogratz and @ballmatthew, more at Techmeme »
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