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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 — Sustained advertising by marketers is helping to cushion the pandemic's impact — Although the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the worst economic decline since …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
PAMCo: national UK newspapers added a record 6.6M daily digital readers in Q1; The Sun was the most read at 39.8M and The Guardian was the fastest growing — National newspaper brands added 6.6m readers daily digital readers in the UK in the first quarter of this year reaching a record audience …
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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@media_evan, @jorcru, @pinewoodstudios, @girlpash, @amestris_star, Fortune and Page Six
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
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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