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11:40 AM ET, December 11, 2019

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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.
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” …
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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
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
@jack:
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. 🧵
Committee to Protect Journalists:
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 …
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
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.
Diana Falzone / Vanity Fair:
Fox Nation host Britt McHenry sues Fox News and former co-host George Murdoch, alleging sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation  —  McHenry alleges she received multiple sexually explicit text messages from her ex-Un-PC cohost, Tyrus, and that the network did not adequately address the situation.
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.
Biz / Variety:
A California court bars Netflix from poaching employees from Fox and validates fixed-term employment agreements; Netflix has indicated it will likely appeal  —  A court on Tuesday issued an injunction barring Netflix from poaching employees from Fox and confirming the validity of fixed-term employment agreements.
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Source: Verizon Media Group, which includes Yahoo, AOL, TechCrunch, and HuffPost, is laying off 150 staffers this week, or about 1.4% of its workforce
Emma Goldberg / New York Times:
A look at the decline of feminist digital media, as sites like Feministing, The Establishment, and others have closed in the past year or are about to close
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Magna Global: global TV ad sales fell 4% in 2019, the steepest decline since 2009 with European TV channel viewership between 18 and 49 dropping 7-8%
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
How Recode's Open Sourced, a just-launched, Omidyar Network-funded project, aims to explain the consequences of tech using reader questions to guide coverage
Sean Murray / TheJournal.ie:
Given video evidence, BBC and ITV journalists apologize for tweeting that a Labour activist had punched a Tory advisor based on info given by Tory sources
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
How WaPo published “The Afghanistan Papers”, which includes interviews with key figures critiquing the US war in Afghanistan, after years of legal battles
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

 
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