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Twitter to fund bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter using it as a client — Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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CPJ 2019 prison census: 250+ journalists are imprisoned globally, and the top three countries putting reporters behind bars are China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia — For the fourth consecutive year, at least 250 journalists are imprisoned globally as authoritarians like Xi Jinping …
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Facebook confirms that a bug caused tens of thousands of now restored ads to disappear from its political ad library, days before UK's general election — London (CNN Business)Tens of thousands of political ads went missing from Facebook's archive this week, according to researchers …
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Fortune to launch a paywall in Jan., with a three tier membership program from $5/month, but will offer news, second-day takes, and sponsored content for free — In January 2020, Fortune will finally launch a paywall it has wanted to build for more than two years.
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza — The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian's homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Neither of the sources in credits for the Richard Jewell film mention any romantic tie between reporter Kathy Scruggs and the FBI agent thought to be her source — The newspaper reporter character in “Richard Jewell,” director Clint Eastwood's new movie about the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Warner Bros. says AJC's claims of defamation in the film Richard Jewell are “baseless” and plans to defend against them, says the film already has a disclaimer
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Sky News to partner with BuzzFeed UK to stream UK election coverage on social sites and Sky News' digital platforms, in an effort to reach a younger audience — U.K. broadcaster Sky News has teamed up with BuzzFeed UK to stream political coverage across social media platforms during the results of the U.K. general election.
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Bloomberg has bought The Atlantic's CityLab, its first acquisition since Businessweek in 2009; CityLab will continue to operate as a standalone site and brand — The brand will continue to operate as a standalone entity — Another media acquisition is afoot.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Profile of LION Publishers, which aims to help its member community of about 250 local indie online publishers become sustainable, as it is awarded a $1M grant — After leaving her job as the managing editor of a newspaper owned by Digital First Media “due to differences with this company's management” …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
AT&T's Xandr ad-tech unit is selling a new ad unit called “pause ad,” which runs with full sound thirty seconds after a viewer pauses a video — Stop. This might be a good time for a commercial. — Consumers are increasingly resistant to sitting through a traditional commercial break …
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The Guardian:
A look at the diminished reporting capacity of two of Scotland's key newspapers as the Herald plans further cuts and the Scotsman struggles to find a buyer — They once dominated discourse but the Herald and Scotsman now struggle to hold power to account — Two decades ago …
Vikas SN / The Economic Times:
Sources: Netflix is testing three-month, six-month, and 12-month discounted plans for new users in India, with savings ranging from 20% to 50% — This test comes days after Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings announced that they are set to spend Rs 3,000 crore on content programming in India in 2019-2020
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Berkeleyside to launch a journalism venture in Oakland in spring 2020 with $3.12M in funding from the Google News Initiative and the American Journalism Project — A new Oakland, California-based journalism venture will launch next spring with $1.56 million in funding from the Google News Initiative (GNI), executives tell Axios.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
American Journalism Project announces its first 11 recipients, with $8.5M distributed among them, comprising 15-30% of their 2020 budgets; AJP has raised $46M
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