Mediagazer: Boom.tv, which has built a live-streaming service that makes it easier to watch and create amateur esports events, raises $10M Series A (Samson Amore/The Wrap)

11:15 AM ET, June 9, 2020

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Google News Initiative, Local Media Consortium, and the Local Media Association launch Support Local News, a $15M ad campaign in North America — The campaign is in partnership with the Local Media Consortium and Local Media Association — Local newsrooms hurt by the shutdown of the economy …

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Zoe Williams / British Vogue:

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Samson Amore / The Wrap:

Boom.tv, which has built a live-streaming service that makes it easier to watch and create amateur esports events, raises $10M Series A — Esports production platform and competition organizer Boom.tv raised a $10 million Series A led by BITKRAFT Esports. The funds will be used …

Discussion: VentureBeat

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

MSN's AI editor confused a mixed-race member of the band Little Mix with another and staff were told to delete articles about the mix-up should the AI find them — Firm's plan to replace editors with AI backfires after wrong image of musician is published — Microsoft's decision …

Discussion: TechRadar.com, @jimwaterson, @healthuntodeath, @alexhern, @glynmoody, @jimwaterson, @rickoshea and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Ben Strauss / Washington Post:

ESPN, which has sought to project an apolitical image, has thrown its full capacity into covering the George Floyd protests, through a sports lens and beyond — “SportsCenter” host Michael Eaves arrived at ESPN's campus in Bristol, Conn., on the evening of May 30 with a heavy heart.

Discussion: @jared_wade, @justintinsley, @jimmiller, @scottnover and @benjstrauss

Maddy Crowell / VQR Online:

Profile of Caravan, a small but influential Indian magazine whose political investigations make it a target of Modi's Hindu nationalists — The offices of Caravan, a small but influential Indian monthly magazine, are housed on the third floor of a Soviet-style building in New Delhi.

Discussion: @vidyakrishnan, @vqr and @aldaily

Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:

A WSJ journalist working in China reflects on being expelled amid rising tensions with the US, leaving family and nearly a decade of her life behind — A Wall Street Journal reporter, expelled by Beijing, writes of generations of ‘red roots’ and the sudden end of her own long journey to cover the country

Discussion: @williamyang120, @jimmylaiapple and @rzhongnotes

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