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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Twitter won't remove Trump's tweets about Scarborough's aide, says it's working on policies so it “can more effectively address things like this going forward” — UPDATED: Twitter is not immediately removing President Donald Trump's tweets about the 2001 death of an aide to Joe Scarborough …
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Craig Pittman / Washington Post:
Trump spreads a debunked conspiracy theory in tweets attacking MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, baselessly insinuating he was involved in the death of an associate — A little after 8 a.m. on July 20, 2001, a couple arriving for an appointment opened an unlocked front door at an office …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Amazon is looking to invest in localized podcast content like news and sports, to be surfaced by Alexa; sports audio would complement sports TV rights — Amazon is looking to invest in localized podcast content, like news and sports, sources tell Axios.
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Kali Holloway / The Daily Beast:
Shaun King keeps raising money for struggling news site The North Star, but some former employees accuse King of mismanagement and unexplained finances — ‘LEVELS OF CONFLICT’ — He blamed issues at The North Star on over-ambition, but seven former employees of the site King launched with great fanfare painted a darker picture.
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Roku to retool advertisers' social media ads into 15-second spots and guarantee that advertisers only pay for households they don't reach on linear TV — Streamer will guarantee brands reach audiences they aren't reaching on TV — Roku is offering advertisers new services to help them revamp …
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Michael Andor Brodeur / Washington Post:
Classical musicians who are turning to live-streaming due to COVID-19 are being targeted by bots claiming copyright for works of composers like Chopin and Bach — A few Sundays ago, Camerata Pacifica artistic director Adrian Spence, aided by his tech-savvy son Keiran, went live on Facebook …
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Reuters:
Warner Music Group files for IPO, expecting to raise up to $1.82B at a valuation of ~$13B, by selling 70M Class A shares at $23-$26 per share — (Reuters) - Warner Music Group said on Tuesday it expects to raise up to $1.82 billion in its Nasdaq debut at a valuation of about $13 billion …
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Kurtis Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Profile of the Oklahoma Eagle, the black-owned newspaper in Tulsa, OK, which kept alive the memory of the 1921 race massacre as white-owned papers ignored it — Jim Goodwin ran his thumb over the screen of his iPhone, reading a rough draft of a newspaper editorial.
Tim Burke / Courier:
Amazon sent a script and video to TV stations promoting its safety measures, and at least 11 stations aired some form of it, and 10 didn't divulge the source — The package was produced by Amazon spokesperson Todd Walker. — Amazon is taking proactive action ahead of Wednesday's annual …
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Press Gazette:
Times newspapers, FT, Guardian, Economist, Telegraph, Mail newspapers, and The Week magazine look to earn around £44M extra a year as a result of UK's VAT cut — The UK's newspaper and magazine industry stands to be at least £50m-a-year better off after a Government move to cut VAT …
Matthew Carey / Deadline:
YouTube pulls Michael Moore-backed doc “Planet of the Humans”, which had 8.3M+ views, over a copyright claim; filmmaker says claim was politically motivated — EXCLUSIVE, updated with new details, 11:42 AM: Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs' controversial documentary Planet of the Humans …
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Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
When telling the story of a global crisis like the pandemic, the most powerful thing a journalist can do is to be in a position to designate who the experts are — In the story of the novel coronavirus, there are two viruses: the virus as it really exists and the virus as we understand it.
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