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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Twitter says Bloomberg's edited debate video, which included cricket sounds, would likely be labeled manipulated video per its new policy, unlike on Facebook — What's a joke and what's manipulation? — As platforms prepare for the upcoming 2020 election season, Twitter and Facebook …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Twitter confirms it is testing bright labels beneath lies and misinfo posted by politicians and public figures, and points-based “community badges” for users
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meredith Kopit Levien, currently the NYT's COO, is a front-runner among candidates to replace Mark Thompson as CEO as soon as April — - Longtime ad-sales executive would succeed Mark Thompson — CEO change would follow a boom in digital subscribers
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Nielsen: about 19.7M people watched the debate on NBC and MSNBC combined, making it the most-watched Democratic primary debate of all time — New York (CNN Business)Nearly 20 million viewers tuned into Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC in Las Vegas …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: the Trump campaign has bought exclusive nationwide masthead ads on YouTube for days leading up to and on election day; ads may cost up to $1M+ a day — In the immediate run up to the U.S. presidential election and on Election Day, the homepage of YouTube is set to advertise just one candidate: Donald Trump.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Daily Memphian, a Memphis news site which launched in 2018 and generated controversy over its opaque fundraising, paywall, and staffing — It's generated controversy over its fundraising, its paywall, and its staffing. But it's also about as close as a major American city …
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@maiden_memphis, @gteresa, @ldtestino, @localmediarocks and WKNO
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Condé Nast to eliminate the use of NDAs related to harassment and discrimination and plans to cease previously existing agreements “on a case-by-case basis” — The move came amid pressure from New Yorker staffers to eliminate the controversial practice …
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Alina Tugend / New York Times:
A look at news literacy programs teaching students in the US how to spot fake news, including Civic Online Reasoning, Center for News Literacy, and Checkology — News literacy instruction is flourishing in the wake of the 2016 election as worries about fake news grow.
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Conrad Duncan / The Independent:
BBC faces criticism for sharing a Question Time clip of an audience member making racist claims without fact-checking or contextualizing her comments — Viewers condemn show for sharing ‘misinformed’ comments without challenge — The BBC has been criticised for sharing a “racist” and …
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Metro.co.uk, theneweuropean.co.uk and The Guardian
Committee to Protect Journalists:
In the run-up to Iran's election today, the state raided the homes of at least five journalists and courts convicted three editors for “spreading false news” — Elections are always problematic for journalists in Iran, as the government attempts to threaten the press into silence.
Sasha von Oldershausen / New York Times:
How west Texas' oldest newspaper, The Big Bend Sentinel, is subsidizing its journalism through drinks, events, and weddings at a cafe inside its office building — Can drinks, community events and the occasional wedding subsidize small-town journalism? — MARFA, Texas …
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American Press Institute, @mathewi, @bgrueskin, @sarahscire, @pennyriordan1, @mathewi and @adriana_lacy
Mark Di Stefano / Financial Times:
WHSmith to resume selling the Daily Telegraph at its 120+ train station shops after ending its stand-off over shrinking margins with the newspaper — Retailer will resume sales this weekend after spat over shrinking margins — WHSmith will resume sales of the Daily Telegraph …
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Press Gazette, @jimwaterson, @markdistef and @jimwaterson
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Alliance for Audited Media takes over Brand Audience Report, which measures publications' audiences across platforms, from MPA, will publish it quarterly — A quarterly report from the Alliance for Audited Media shows Meredith Corp.'s Peoplehad the largest magazine audience across platforms …
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Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
ViacomCBS to expand CBS All Access with content totaling ~30K episodes of TV and ~1K movies from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount, and others — ViacomCBS' rumored new streaming service isn't a new service so much as a massive expansion of CBS All Access.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS All Access and Showtime have 11M subscribers; Pluto TV had 22.4M MAUs in Q4 2019, up 75% YoY; revenue from all three hit $1.6 billion in 2019
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
ViacomCBS revenue fell 3% to 6.87M in Q4, its first post-merger quarter, with a net loss of $273M; company anticipates merger savings of $750M, up from $500M
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