Mediagazer: Disney consolidates its ad tech teams under one unit, housed under its direct-to-consumer arm, streamlining ad campaign management across its brands (Sara Fischer/Axios)

2:10 AM ET, June 17, 2020

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

A misleading NBC story about Google “banning” The Federalist and ZeroHedge sounds just like what happened to Techdirt last year because of comments on one page — from the another-day-another-story dept — So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” …

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Aaron Holmes / Business Insider:

Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:

Facebook will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday and says the feature will be available to all US users over the next few weeks — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Reuters digital news report based on surveys of 80K+ people in 40 countries: more people are paying for news, many prefer sources with “no point of view”, more — The percentage of people paying for news online continues to increase — and people may even pay for more than one subscription.

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Report: just 15% of UK left-leaning voters say they mostly trust news media, down from 46% in 2015, trust is down 20%+ overall in UK; BBC is most trusted org

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BBC:
Report finds 11% of people under 25 use Instagram for news compared with 12% for Twitter, predicts Instagram will overtake Twitter next year as a news source

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Washington Post:

A deep look at the toxic relationship between Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists and its publisher, whose family has owned the paper for nearly a century — Before last year, Keith C. Burris was mostly known to reporters at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as the author of the most controversial opinion piece …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Disney consolidates its ad tech teams under one unit, housed under its direct-to-consumer arm, streamlining ad campaign management across its brands — Disney has consolidated all its advertising technology teams under one unit led by former Hulu advertising lead Jeremy Helfand, executives tell Axios.

Discussion: Axios and @sarafischer

David Shortell / CNN:

Court docket: the Trump admin sues to block John Bolton's book, set to publish June 23, alleging breach of contract and that it's “rife” with classified info — Trump team concerned over release of Bolton's book — (CNN)The Trump administration is suing former national security …

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Neal Justin / Star Tribune:

American Public Media Group ends production on Live From Here, the successor to A Prairie Home Companion, and lays off 28; CEO blames the pandemic for cuts — Cancellation part of cuts at St. Paul-based American Public Media Group. — TEXT SIZE — American Public Media Group …

Discussion: Bring Me The News, @anamariecox, @dtaberski, @nwquah, @christhile, @christhile and Current

Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:

On Monday, Axios will launch a daily news podcast called Axios Today, hosted by Niala Boodhoo with ten-minute episodes every weekday morning before 6am ET — Word of Axios making a push into the ever-competitive genre has been around for a while, dating back to a NBC News write-up from March, but we're getting final details today.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @sarakgoo and @myhlee

Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:

Universal resumes filming of Jurassic World and will spend an additional ~$5M on coronavirus safety protocols — EXCLUSIVE: Universal's Jurassic World: Dominion is set to be the first major studio movie to re-start filming proper in the UK, we can reveal. Cameras are due to roll the second week …

Discussion: @jorcru, @pinewoodstudios, @girlpash, @media_evan, @amestris_star, Fortune, Page Six, The A.V. Club, Forbes and The Wrap

Lila Shapiro / Vulture:

In the last week, 14 of the 24 board members of the National Book Critics Circle have resigned, citing racism, privacy and political correctness concerns — A week ago, as protestors rallied around the world against systemic racism and police brutality, 12 board members of the National Book Critics Circle …

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Kevin Truong / VICE:

iFixit, which has posted repair manuals for ventilators during the pandemic, says Steris Corporation is claiming copyright infringement; iFixit cites fair use — A popular website with a comprehensive database of repair manuals for ventilators and other medical devices has received a letter …

Discussion: @eff

Chloe Schama / Vogue:

New York outlet The City, in partnership with Columbia's and CUNY's journalism schools, launches a project to commemorate every New Yorker who died of COVID-19 — By now we are horrifyingly familiar with the staggering toll that COVID-19 has taken among African Americans.

Discussion: @terryparrisjr, @columbiajourn, @byardduncan and @caity_says

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Community-centered nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside, a Berkeleyside sister publication, officially launches with $1.56M in funding from Google News Initiative — The Oaklandside is a nonprofit newsroom that's already covered the pandemic and protests — Oakland's newest newsroom wasn't supposed to launch until today.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, The Keyword, @oaklandside, The Oaklandside, @poynter, @oaklandside, Berkeleyside, @lpostcollective, @poynter, @dw_grant, @kristenhare, @berkeleyside, @citysidelocal and @savethenews

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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
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Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Gallup/Knight poll: nearly two-thirds in US support Section 230 in principle; 85% favored removing intentionally misleading health information from social media

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International Center of Photography:
International Center of Photography partners with the Black Press Freedom Fund to offer $400 grants for PPE to Black photojournalists covering the protests

Hanna Ziady / CNN:
Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, says it will start reopening theaters next week and plans to reopen all in the UK and US by July 10

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Rachel Abrams / New York Times:
The AP apologizes for supplying newspapers with a Jefferson Davis quote as part of its Today in History feature; it will no longer run Thought for Today quotes

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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Some publishers are prioritizing subscription volume, often by offering discounts, over immediate revenue, lowering the value of each subscriber

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Wall Street Journal:
Black producers say more representation in management and creative roles is needed to make real change in Hollywood, not just empty gestures like canceling Cops

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Wall Street Journal:
Staffers across US newsrooms seek changes on diversity, hiring, and coverage; sources: at WSJ, 150+ journalists sent letter to top execs expressing concerns

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Marc Malkin / Variety:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postpones the 93rd Academy Awards by two months to April 25, 2021

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Memo: Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara have resigned as Trump appointee Michael Pack takes over VOA's parent agency

CBS Boston:
Six former employees of eBay charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign against a couple they believed was critical of eBay in an online ecommerce newsletter

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta adds Dina Powell McCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term, and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison to its board

Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into how personal data in public X posts was used to train xAI's Grok, which could stoke tensions between the EU and the US

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
China exempts products from AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, and others that are made by Taiwanese companies like TSMC from the 125% tariff on US products

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