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David Gilbert / VICE:
A Facebook employee and content moderators working for subcontractor CPL Resources are suing Facebook for trauma in Ireland's High Court — DUBLIN — Sean Burke spent years working for big tech like Cisco and SAP. But nothing could prepare him for the work he did for Facebook.
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Apple announces first ever Apple Music Awards with ceremony on December 4; Album of the Year and Song of the Year were determined based on streaming data — Billie Eilish Takes Top Honor as Global Artist of the Year — Apple Music Celebrates with Global, Live-Streamed Performance …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Bloomberg Media is rebranding its social media news network from TicToc to QuickTake by Bloomberg, which will launch its own streaming news channel in 2020 — Bloomberg Media is dropping TicToc as the name of its two-year-old social-media news service, rebranding it as “QuickTake by Bloomberg.”
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Steve McClellan / MediaPost:
GroupM reports 6.2% US ad growth in 2019 and forecasts 15% digital ad growth and a 4% overall ad spend rise in 2020, to approximately $253B, minus political ads — GroupM is forecasting U.S. ad growth next year of 4% to approximately $253 billion. That's underlying growth …
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The Wrap, Digiday and AdExchanger
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Russian law lets state label journalists and bloggers as foreign agents if they get foreign funding or share content from outlets registered as foreign agents — The Russian government now has the right to classify individual journalists, bloggers and even social media users as “foreign agents” …
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Lee Taehoon / Nieman Lab:
A look at S. Korean independent nonprofit newsroom Newstapa, whose donor base dropped after it investigated liberal politicians amid improving press freedoms — Under a conservative government that restricted press freedom, Newstapa became a favorite of Korean liberals who backed its lonely fight.
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@niemanlab
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Ofcom concludes that Channel 4's decision to replace Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage with ice sculptures during debate did not breach due impartiality rules — Tories complained to Ofcom that broadcast breached due impartiality rules, alleging pattern of bias at channel
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Press Gazette, Associated Press, @ahmedka1 and @charliebeckett
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Profile of Rana Ayyub, one of India's best-known investigative journalists reporting on Narendra Modi's India amid increasing anti-Muslim bigotry — The Prime Minister's Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
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@ranaayyub, @ichotiner, @safimichael, @ichotiner, @mirakamdar and @salilshetty
Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter:
South Korean NGO files complaint against Disney alleging Frozen 2 was shown on 88% of local screens on opening day, violating the country's anti-monopoly laws — An NGO based in Seoul has alleged that the film occupied 88 percent of local screens on its opening day, violating Korea's anti-monopoly laws.
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 …
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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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@mathewi, @lastangrytweet, @gabrielsnyder, @bu_law and @wphillips49
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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