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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Many journalists see Tucker Carlson as a go-to source for stories about Trump, which are sometimes unflattering, and for details on Fox News' internal politics — His platform on Fox News made him a big player in Donald Trump's circle. Off camera, he shapes the coverage of Trump's world and Fox's own internal politics.
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Anne Marie Roantree / Reuters:
Apple Daily will be forced to shut “in a matter of days” after Chinese authorities froze its assets, according to an adviser to jailed owner Jimmy Lai — Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut “in a matter of days” after authorities froze …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Newspapers, including those owned by Gannett and McClatchy, are rethinking police coverage, sometimes removing old stories about minor crimes — The Boston Globe this year received an inquiry from a woman in its coverage area. Her son had died an untimely death.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Interview with Chuck Todd about interviewing Republicans who enabled Trump's election lies as he laments that print media gets a pass on such interviews — MSNBC's Chuck Todd is done with Twitter — mostly. — The moderator of Meet the Press says he has stopped using the platform, which he compares to quitting smoking.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Vivendi's Universal Music Group to sell a 10% stake to a SPAC set up by Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, valuing the label at $40B — The French media conglomerate finalized a deal to offload a 10 percent stake in the music major to a blank check company of Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square.
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:
Andreessen Horowitz's Future doesn't compete with journalism because it offers up essays, not reporting, limiting its potential to promote tech-positive views — I've been dragging my feet on writing about Andreessen Horowitz's much-anticipated new publication, which the firm revealed Tuesday.
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Kat O'Brien / New York Times:
Kat O'Brien, formerly of Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Newsday, says she was raped by an unnamed MLB player 18 years ago, wants change for women covering sports — Kat O'Brien is a former journalist and baseball writer for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Newsday.
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Bill Adair / Poynter:
Squash, the automated fact checking service from Reporters' Lab at Duke University, gets us closer to live fact checking but still makes a lot of mistakes — The project brought the world one step closer to live automated fact-checking, but it still has a ways to go — Squash began as a crazy dream.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
How Roku beat larger companies by focusing on distribution, as it pivots to focus on original programming with plans to spend $1B on content next year — - Roku has out-executed larger companies and leaned on an unusual corporate culture to gain a $45 billion valuation.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Roku says from May 20 to June 3, more Roku viewers streamed a Roku Original than Quibi users who streamed Quibi shows during the nine months of Quibi's lifetime
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Kate Lindsay / Study Hall:
A look at Puck, the secretive subscription-based digital pub from three media veterans, and its incoming staff roster including Julie Ioffe and Teddy Schleifer — The first rule of working at the new media company Puck is you don't talk about Puck. — Two months after The New York Times …
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@harrymccracken, @studyhallxyz and @chaykak
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Survey: social media users see the removal of hate speech as more fair than removing profanity, with moderators who removed hate speech seen as more trustworthy — News consumers and social media platform users prioritize the removal of hate speech over the removal of profanity …
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@iansherr and American Press Institute, more at Techmeme »
Josh Noel / @hopnotes:
[Thread] About 40 people, or about 24% of Chicago Tribune's newsroom, are taking buyouts offered by Alden Global Capital just after it gained full control — About 24% of Chicago Tribune reporters are taking next week's buyout.
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