Mediagazer: 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 (Aaron Holmes/Business Insider)

10:35 PM ET, June 16, 2020

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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.

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

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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 — Overall trust down 20 points since 2015, and ‘silent majority’ want ‘neutral and detached’ news

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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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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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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

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, @vmochama, @maurajudkis, @ekhatami, @wesleylowery, @sulliview and @elaheizadi

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

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 and Fortune

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 …

Discussion: @kaitlancollins, The Hill, @paulareidcbs, @meridithmcgraw, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Boing Boing, Just The News and @lizmair

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, The Oaklandside, @oaklandside, @poynter, @oaklandside, Berkeleyside, @lpostcollective, @poynter, @dw_grant, @kristenhare, @berkeleyside, @citysidelocal and @savethenews

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, @christhile, @christhile, Current, @anamariecox, @dtaberski and @nwquah

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 …

Discussion: @lilapearl, @dreamsong77, @mariskreizman, @heybonanos, @nils_gilman, @dandrezner, @hillarykelly, @clintonyates, Vanity Fair, Jezebel and Publishers Weekly

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

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