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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump campaign says it will no longer credential Bloomberg reporters until it rescinds decision to not probe Michael Bloomberg or rival Democratic candidates — Trump campaign chairman Brad Parscale announced Monday that they will not be offering press credentials to any reporters of Bloomberg News seeking to cover the Trump campaign.
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Axios, Variety, Bloomberg, Financial Times, TVNewser, @grynbaum, Fortune, Politico, @daviduberti, @mlcalderone, @dylanbyers, @brooklynmarie, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, @mlcalderone, The Week and The Wrap
Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg:
A loophole in Google's political ads policy, which lets advertisers buy spots using their own targeting data, can let campaigns get around microtargeting limits — - Campaigns can still target ads on the web using other tools — Google is changing its ad policy after months of debate
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CBS News and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Report for America says it's on pace to place 250 journalists in 164 local newsrooms in 2020, which is four times the size of its 2019 class — Efforts to fill local newsrooms are ramping up as the industry continues to face rapid cuts, consolidation and closures.
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Daily Herald, Report for America, @sarafischer, Talking Biz News, @grahambrookie and @cweiser
Annalee Newitz / New York Times:
Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why “slow media” curated by humans should replace today's social media — My quest to imagine a different reality.
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@privacyproject, @lollardfish, @noahpinion, @frankpasquale, @anneapplebaum, @laelaps, @jason_kint, @dcherring and Bryan Formhals
Kate Knibbs / The Ringer:
How Vice's Toronto office ended up being used as the headquarters for a cocaine-smuggling ring, leading to the arrest of two former employees earlier this year — In December 2015, five young people were arrested in Australia during a botched drug trafficking attempt.
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@richardwarnica, @pdmcleod, @jeremypgordon, @maggieserota, @perlberg, @aherman2006 and @samsthrlnd
New York Times:
NYT Editorial Board says Trump's attacks on the media are damaging democracy globally by legitimizing the practice of pretending that facts don't exist — “Concocting fake news to attract eyeballs is a habitual trick of America's New York Times, and this newspaper suffered a crisis …
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@nytopinion, @timkmak, @jayrosen_nyu, @counternotions, @spj_tweets, @mollyjongfast, @marklittlenews, @john_sipher and @froomkin
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
As TV networks join media conglomerates like Comcast and Disney, news divisions are avoiding investigative stories that pose financial, legal, or political risk — This has been the autumn of discontent for investigative TV journalists. — Ronan Farrow's bestselling book “Catch and Kill” …
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@strickdc, @spj_tweets and @brianstelter
Whitney Phillips / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporters think debunking falsehoods counters them, but bringing facts to light through coverage should be weighed against increasing the exposure of the lies — Disinformation is polluting our media environment. Facts won't save us. … Statements such as these frequently emerge …
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@bu_law and @wphillips49
Charles Riley / CNN:
EU antitrust regulator launches preliminary investigations into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use, and monetize data for advertising purposes — London (CNN Business)Europe's top antitrust regulator is probing how Google and Facebook use data, putting the companies' huge advertising businesses in the spotlight once again.
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@fabiochiusi, Gizmodo, @zagrrl and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Profile of Bellingcat, the open source project that has broken major stories using public data rather than relying on traditional methods such as inside sources — LONDON — Leaked documents and interviews with whistle-blowing sources will always be a part of investigative journalism.
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@arawnsley, @eliothiggins, Global Investigative …, @amandahess, @arictoler, @davidsirota and Talking Biz News
Anna Merlan / VICE:
Hearst launches a website encouraging Hearst Magazines staff not to unionize, describing it as “the information they need to make a choice about the union” — On Monday morning, employees at Hearst Magazines were treated to an email from Troy Young, the president of the company …
Max Willens / Digiday:
Forbes acquires stock prediction service Quantalytics AI Labs; source: Forbes' non-ad revenue almost doubled from 18% of annual total in 2014 to 33%+ in 2019 — At the beginning of 2019, Forbes Media had just finished celebrating its most profitable year in a decade and had begun hunting for companies it could invest in or buy.
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Talking Biz News
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Daphne Caruana Galizia's sons demanded justice, and their efforts, alongside those of journalists and rights advocates, led to a rare instance of accountability — In a life that was anything but ordinary, this seemed a routine enough moment. — Daphne Caruana Galizia climbed …
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