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Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz — In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook says it now finds that there is an undisclosed financial relationship between The Daily Wire and Mad World News and will temporarily demote the latter — The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Politicon) — Facebook has concluded there is an undisclosed …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Companies have little to lose from joining a Facebook boycott during a slow month for ads amid a pandemic; they'll be back, and Facebook will emerge stronger — Every day, it seems, another major corporation joins the advertiser boycott against Facebook. First came The North Face, REI and Patagonia.
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Pancake Brain, Axios, @joshsternberg, Fortune, Vanity Metrics, @iainlevine and @dylanbyers, more at Techmeme »
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CNN:
Of the top 25 Facebook advertisers in 2019, which include Uber and Netflix, only three, Microsoft, Starbucks, and Pfizer, have said they are pausing ad spending
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Tom Dotan / The Information:
Reuters has told employees that it is planning on putting many of its articles behind a subscription paywall — Reuters is planning on putting many of its articles behind a subscription paywall, the news service told employees. Reuters would become one of the last free news services …
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Talking Biz News and @cityofthetown
Jeremy Gordon / Columbia Journalism Review:
A requiem for The Outline, which had a broad editorial vision with creative freedom for staff, and which closed in April after less than four years of existence — On April 3, the day The Outline was shut down and its editorial staff let go, my coworkers and I received hundreds of messages …
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
France allows tax credit for new subscribers to current affairs outlets since the sector is “suffering enormously” due to COVID-19 crisis — Move to support newspapers and magazines follows global slump during pandemic — French MPs have voted to grant a tax credit to anyone taking …
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@janebsinger, @rasmus_kleis and @gaufre
Maiysha Kai / The Glow Up:
Following the publication of an open letter alleging mistreatment, misconduct, and mismanagement at Essence, the outlet names Caroline Wanga interim CEO — The pioneering and still most prominent media brand for Black women will once again have one at the helm—at least, for the immediate future.
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New York Times, Black Female Anonymous, @iwriteallday_, @jouelzy, @kerrymflynn and Page Six
Hilary Lewis / Hollywood Reporter:
Walmart will convert 160 parking lots into drive-in movie theaters with film programming by Tribeca Enterprises from August to October — The retailer will transform its store parking lots into contact-free movie theaters, allowing viewers to have a socially distanced big-screen experience amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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/Film, The Daily Caller, @retailprophet, @jordanbitterman, TechCrunch, @aexm, Gizmodo, @pitdesi and Fortune
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10 — Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut's TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Lasso alerted users on Wednesday.
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Variety, @kerrymflynn, Business Insider, Tubefilter, @kawaljit, Gizmodo, @mattnavarra, The Wrap, The Verge and Neowin, more at Techmeme »
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
In a letter to Michael Pack, senators from both parties voice concerns about Pack's firing of longtime USAGM leaders and say they'll review the agency's funding — - Sens. Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and a bipartisan group of senators say they are planning to review the U.S. Global Agency …
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@schwartzbcnbc and @penamerica
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The BBC is laying off 450 people, representing a sixth of BBC England staff, to save £25M, per NUJ, and axing regional news show Inside Out — Well-known local presenters to lose jobs and concerns raised about news quality — The BBC is to make 450 staff working on its regional programmes …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The New Statesman says it is dropping all network advertising from its site and announces it has passed 30,000 paid subscriptions for the first time in 40 years — The New Statesman has revealed that it is dropping all network advertising from its website as Covid-19 has “accelerated a number of trends in business and society”.
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