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11:20 PM ET, June 17, 2020

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Washington Post:
US DOJ escalates the legal battle against John Bolton, seeking a temporary restraining order blocking publication of his White House memoir  —  The Justice Department on Wednesday night sought an emergency order from a judge blocking the publication of former national security adviser John …
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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
CNN:
Sources: heads of 4 outlets overseen by the US Agency for Global Media were fired Wednesday, heightening fear that CEO Michael Pack will politicize the agency  —  New York (CNN Business)The new chief executive of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has yet to show up for his job …
Callum Borchers / WBUR:
Boston NPR affiliate WBUR, one of the largest in public radio, to lay off 29 people, or 10%+ of its staff, to help reduce its operating budget by ~13%, to ~$40M  —  WBUR will lay off more than 10% of the station's staff, including several newsroom leaders, and stop producing …
Tomi Kilgore / MarketWatch:
Sinclair says it will launch a headline news service in early 2021 focusing on commentary-free content provided by its network of local broadcast stations  —  Referenced Symbols  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. SBGI, -3.45% said Wednesday it will be hiring 25 new positions …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Study: more nonprofit newsrooms were launched in 2018-2019 than in any year since 2008-2009; 78 are focused on local news, 10 more than last year  —  News organizations that have turned to the nonprofit model have often focused on national or investigative news but this year's INN Index …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Kim Kardashian West reaches a deal with Spotify for a podcast about her work with the Innocence Project, which seeks to clear wrongly convicted people  —  Show would explore the celebrity's work with the Innocence Project  —  Kim Kardashian West reached a deal with Spotify Technology SA …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
SiriusXM will acquire podcast management platform Simplecast, with plans to integrate the company with its digital audio ads subsidiary AdsWizz  —  Podcasting continues to see a strong trajectory in the world of streamed audio content, and today comes the latest development on that front.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
After June 30, when Alden can increase its Tribune stake, Alden could take full control or force a sale or Tribune could sell off its papers separately  —  Alden Global Capital could take full control or force a sale.  The LA Times' owner could play spoiler.  Or Tribune's papers could be sold piecemeal.
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Facebook and Instagram will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday; the feature will roll out 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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Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Facebook says it will expand its Ad Library tool to track spending by US senatorial and congressional candidates
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
No, Google didn't demonetize The Federalist and Zero Hedge, as NBC's misleading story claims, and it is not an example of anti-conservative bias  —  from the another-day-another-story dept  —  So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge.
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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
HuffPost:
American police have a far-right media ecosystem of their own, with rampant misinformation and bigotry and extremist views dictating the narrative  —  Cops have a far-right media ecosystem of their own, where they post racist memes, spread disinformation and call for violence against antifa.
 
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David Cohen / Adweek:
Spotify adds video ads to Ad Studio, its self-serve ad platform, in Canada, UK, and the US, and says 50% of its advertisers used it in May, up from 11% in March
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philadelphia Magazine editor Tom McGrath to step down at the end of the summer, says the pub needs to hire a replacement who isn't “a middle-aged white guy”
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Luke Guillory / Ad Age:
GroupM: in 2020, print ad spend to drop 26%, digital advertising 3%, TV advertising 7%; SVOD like Hulu and Roku to grow 15% in 2021
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Community-centered nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside, a Berkeleyside sister publication, officially launches with $1.56M in funding from Google News Initiative
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