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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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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
Fox News website published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, removed them after inquiries — Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) …
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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Sources detail a history of insensitive and racist comments by Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News exec who has now been placed on administrative leave — Sources say Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News executive, has an extensive history of insensitive comments.
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Siraj Datoo / Bloomberg:
Twitter restored the account for financial website Zero Hedge, saying it “made an error” in suspending the account in January — Twitter Inc. reinstated the account of Zero Hedge after suspending it earlier this year, saying it made a mistake in accusing the libertarian financial website …
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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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Biz Carson / Protocol:
Q&A with Chris Best, CEO of Substack: the company has seen revenue increase 60% and readership and writership double in the first three months of the pandemic — If it seems like everyone is launching a newsletter these days, well, you're not wrong. Chris Best, CEO and founder …
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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Noah Hurowitz / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYPD shouldn't be in charge of issuing press passes as they routinely deny them to freelancers and small outlets, and have broad discretion to confiscate them — Last week, before heading out to report on New York City's intensifying protests over the death of George Floyd …
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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 …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The Dallas Morning News tests promo codes that individual journalists can offer people for free one-month digital subscriptions — Journalists around the world are three months into working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. As initial online traffic has surged and tapered …
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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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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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