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Dan Froomkin / Salon:
NYT's op-ed page should be radically transparent: establish public standards for accuracy, good faith, and pertinence, and explain and contextualize exceptions — After the Tom Cotton snafu and the departure of James Bennet, the Times has a golden opportunity to set an example
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@niemanlab:
A thread collecting tweets by journalists of color speaking about racism and discrimination they faced while working in newsrooms — Over the last week, journalists of color have been talking about the racism and discrimination they've faced while working in newsrooms. Their experiences show that that racism in news media is institutionalized. We're collecting their tweets here (THREAD).
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P. Kim Bui / Collected Notes:
What it's like to be a newsroom leader and a person of color right now, quietly swallowing racism, fake allies, slights, and soul-deep exhaustion
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
When TV shows like Tucker Carlson's spark controversy, companies can generate goodwill by withdrawing ads, but the money usually shifts elsewhere on the network — Tucker Carlson is, once again, losing advertisers. But the real question is whether Fox News Channel is losing any of the cash …
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Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
Google says it's updating its advertising policies to prohibit demographic and zip code targeting for housing, employment, and credit ads — The update will roll out in the U.S. and Canada this year. — Google is updating its advertising policies around housing, employment and credit opportunities, the company announced Thursday.
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Amal Clooney / Washington Post:
A preview of an expected verdict Monday for Maria Ressa, the Filipino American journalist charged with “cyber libel”; US response will send a signal to others — Amal Clooney is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, Britain's special envoy on media freedom and counsel to Maria Ressa.
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@davidakaye, @davidakaye, @davidakaye, @postopinions, @myhlee, @pzfahad and @rebecca_vincent
Sean Burch / The Wrap:
HBO says it will be shutting down its HBO Go streaming app on July 31, following the recent launch of HBO Max; HBO Now will be rebranded as just HBO — HBO on Friday said it will be shutting down its HBO Go streaming app in July, following the recent launch of HBO Max, its new linchpin streaming service.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
At launch, Facebook News had very few politics stories, many New York Times links, and overlapped little with the most popular articles on rest of Facebook — On June 10, the most popular stories across Facebook were all NASCAR banning Confederate flags and Blue Lives Matter (with a sprinkling of dead kids).
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@laurahazardowen, @mattnavarra, The Verge and Simon Owens's Tech …, more at Techmeme »
Grzegorz Piechota / INMA:
Researchers: a comparison of human and algorithm curation on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news” — Two Northwestern University researchers audited two Apple News sections: one curated by editors and one by an algorithm.
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@ndiakopoulos and @inmaorg
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
ViacomCBS says it has ended its relationship with Big Fish Entertainment, which produced Live PD, after A&E canceled the show on Wednesday amid protests — Production company was behind series like “Love and Hip Hop” for ViacomCBS networks — ViacomCBS has ended its relationship …
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Multichannel News, Variety, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Law & Crime and globalnews.ca
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
BuzzFeed News EIC Mark Schoofs faces a diversity problem made worse by talent drain, with staff skeptical about a new “inequality desk” led by only white men — A talent drain has left what Mark Schoofs acknowledges as “a glaring diversity problem.” But a hiring spree isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
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@mdawriter
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: Tencent took a 1.6% stake in Warner Music Group for $200M in Warner's IPO in separate transactions by two Tencent subsidiaries; shares now worth ~$250M — Chinese internet giant already had interests in Universal Music Group, Spotify — Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY 1.56% took …
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Variety, Billboard, Music Business Worldwide, Deadline, Rolling Stone and Reuters
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
60 in 6, the 60 Minutes show for Quibi, will premiere Sunday with two episodes and subsequently release new episodes every Monday — After teasing the series' arrival for some months, Quibi is finally ready to launch its take on 60 Minutes for the social media generation.
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@convergencetr, TVNewser and Variety
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