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Paul Kiel / ProPublica:
ProPublica, WaPo, Bloomberg, NYT, and Dow Jones have sued the Small Business Administration over its refusal to release details about who received PPP loans — The Small Business Administration, which is administering the lending program, has said it will disclose the names of companies that got loans — just not yet.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
A Fox Corp memo extends the company's work from home directive through June 15, as Fox News stars echo Trump's call to “reopen the country” — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Sources: Apple is asking the publishers participating in Apple News+ for permission to produce audio versions of stories, with Apple handling production costs — Apple News+ is pivoting to audio. — Over the past several months, Apple has been asking the publishers participating …
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Tim Warsinskey / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland.com will now produce all content for The Plain Dealer, 4 remaining Plain Dealer reporters have job offers at cleveland.com; union to be dissolved — CLEVELAND, Ohio — The reality and challenge of being a journalist these days is covering change while being part of change.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook will pay $52M in a settlement covering 11,250 content moderators as compensation for mental health issues developed on the job — Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000 — In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce …
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Facebook says it took action on 9.6M pieces of hate speech content in Q1, up by 3.6M, and AI now proactively detects 88.8% of it, up from 80.2% last quarter
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Adweek, Facebook AI, TechRadar.com, Fast Company, The Hill, About Facebook, About Facebook, CNET and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
Sources: Luminary Media raised $30M+ at a level below last year's $200M valuation, bringing its total raised to $160M, and is seeking more funding — - Startup raises more than $30 million in round, looks for more — Luminary Media, the money-losing podcasting startup …
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@lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw and @pkafka, more at Techmeme »
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
NBC's Chuck Todd apologizes for airing a truncated clip of a CBS News interview with AG Bill Barr but says it was “not our edit,” after blowback from Trump — Meet the Press host Chuck Todd addressed the blowback his show ignited this past Sunday when he called out Bill Barr's explanation …
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@oliverdarcy, @tomwjones, @davidfolkenflik, The Daily Beast, @kerrikupecdoj, @meetthepress and @blakehounshell
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Condé Nast will lay off about 100 US employees, with a similar number temporarily furloughed and a small number of staff getting reduced work schedules — Similar number to be temporarily furloughed as advertising slowdown takes a bite — Condé Nast …
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@jeffreyt1, @edmundlee, @edmundlee and @maxwelltani
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: advertisers like GM are looking to exercise an option, available since May 1, to cancel up to 50% of their Q3 TV ad spend, an estimated $1B-$1.5B loss — Companies are seeking to take advantage of options that became available May 1 to cancel up to 50% of third-quarter spending
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@sub8u, @keachhagey, @lionelmedia, @ferrotv, @oliverdarcy, @ashkan, @richlightshed, @asharma, @anthony, @richlightshed, @asharma, @jbflint, Breitbart and The Hill
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Morning Consult, the market research startup founded in 2014, raises $31M Series A from James Murdoch's Lupa Systems and others, at a valuation of $306M — - Murdoch's Lupa Systems backs market research firm with funding — Company raised $31 million valuing it at $306 million
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Washington Post:
Trump's “ask China” answer to a question by CBS' Weijia Jiang shocked listeners and fit his pattern of suggesting reporters have loyalties based on ethnicity — President Trump has a long history of using the bully pulpit to take jabs at reporters.
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Vanity Fair, Vox, @jinkding, @sulliview, @ericboehlert, The Federalist, @jayrosen_nyu, The Week and Letters from an American
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Hulu faces class action lawsuit, claiming it forces customers to use its app by deliberately throttling its service via browsers, all to collect more data — Hulu has been hit with a class action lawsuit that claims it deliberately throttles its service on web browsers.
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