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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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@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 …
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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.
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@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.
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