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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, TVNewser, @grynbaum, The Wrap, Politico, @brooklynmarie, @mlcalderone, @dylanbyers, The Week and @daviduberti
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, Talking Biz News, Report for America, @cweiser and @sarafischer
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, @mollyjongfast, @marklittlenews and @john_sipher
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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@frankpasquale, @dcherring, @privacyproject, @lollardfish, @noahpinion, @laelaps, @anneapplebaum, @jason_kint and Bryan Formhals, more at Techmeme »
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
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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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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Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, @fabiochiusi, @zagrrl and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
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
Michael Calderone / Politico:
NYT opens up its presidential endorsement process, will conduct interviews with the contenders on the record and air parts of the discussions on its FX show — Televised candidate interviews and editorial-board deliberations shake up the traditionally closed-door decision. — The New York Times building.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Chairman of UK's News Media Association calls on political parties to end the practice of mimicking local newspapers with their election campaign material — News UK chief operating officer David Dinsmore has backed the call for political parties to “immediately end” the practice …
Bloomberg:
Facebook removes seven UK Conservative Party ads following a copyright claim from the BBC; the BBC said the ads distorted the perception of its impartiality — - Social media platform takes down ads after ‘valid’ IP claim — Fight on social media to win Britain's Dec. 12 vote heats up
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Associated Press, The Independent, London Evening Standard, Telegraph, CNN, BBC, PoliticsHome.com and @huwbbc
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
David Pemsel, who was set to leave his job as Guardian CEO in early 2020, stepped down early after messages to a female former Guardian colleague were revealed — Pemsel planned to stay on until 2020 when he'd begin leading the Premier League, but he prematurely resigned amid tabloid reports on his personal life
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