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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
YouTube issues strike, suspends Sky News Australia for a week over its videos denying COVID-19 existence, promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin — Digital giant issues strike after channel posted videos denying the existence of disease and encouraging people to use discredited medication
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Sky News Australia, @picardonhealth, @skynewsaust, @mjrowland68, @kmac, @profterryhughes, @risj_oxford, @maynereport, @imranajmain, @julia_zemiro, @pandemic_times, @ggreenwald, @stopfundinghate, @elisethoma5, New York Post, @alankohler, @swearyanthony, What's New in Publishing, @paulnudeisbest, @meadea, @mrkrudd, @earleyedition, @endemicprepared, @sophiemcneill, The Wrap, Reuters, newslaundry.com, Mediaweek, @mehreenfaruqi, @maynereport, The Guardian and @blakandblack
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
A deep dive into Tim Pool's career, from livestreaming Occupy to jobs at Vice before spotlighting extremists and white nationalists on YouTube and his website — OFF THE DEEP END … A former darling of Occupy Wall Street, Tim Pool has racked up more than a billion views and millions …
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@bobsaietta, @jaredlholt, @jaredlholt, @lukeobrien, @mlcalderone, @silvermanjacob, @blackamazon, @jasonintrator, @thedailybeast, @thetomzone, @mobute and @beccalew, Thanks:@ants000
Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Female journalists and activists share how they were targeted and harassed by authoritarian regimes through hack-and-leak attacks using the Pegasus spyware — Ghada Oueiss, a Lebanese broadcast journalist at Al-Jazeera, was eating dinner at home with her husband last June when she received …
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@oliviasolon, Beyond Search, @iyad_elbaghdadi, @drewharwell, @oliviasolon, @evacide, @kimzetter, @evan_greer and @oliviasolon, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
While social media companies attract attention for vaccine misinformation, researchers say local media has been a powerful conduit for anti-vaccine messaging — Facebook and other social media have been under scrutiny for vaccine misinformation, but local outlets have also sometimes been active.
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@staceynycdc, @drsherrypagoto, @brettkelman and @brianstelter
Cath Clarke / The Guardian:
A new documentary follows three journalists from Khabar Lahariya, India's only all-women news outlet, as they report on rural issues through a feminist lens — India's only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers explain their inspiring courage and energy
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@shantanub, @niemanlab, @raju, @sameerhashmi, @chriselliott57 and FEMINIST GIANT
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Profile of Alex Kurtzman, who has a $160M, five-and-a-half-year deal to develop the Star Trek franchise at Paramount+, a key project to boost the small service — “He's our future,” one CBS Studios executive said of Alex Kurtzman, who has a lucrative contract to expand the “Star Trek” …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Profile of Keith Kelly, whose Media Ink column for NY Post has been a must-read for those in magazine publishing for 23 years, as he retires from the tabloid — For 23 years, his Media Ink column for The New York Post was a must-read for magazine machers. What's next?
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Media Nation, @berlinger, @readdanwrite, @michaelkruse, @michaelkruse, @connortryan, @mediaevan, @carriemelago, @matthewsedacca, @jdawsey1, @amychozick, @rubycramer, @julesm_b, @_danmangan, @maureendowd, @nytmedia, @jimrutenberg, @katierosman, @tomgara, @harrymccracken, @helenkennedy, @seth_hettena, @nytimesbusiness, @alexandrajacobs, @benmullin, @greenpnyt, @ennisnyt, @kpfinnerty, @shinangovani, @freedlander, @jeffbercovici, @jimmyvielkind, @shawnmccreesh, @kirflem and @brianstelter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
News Corp says it will pay $1.15B in cash to buy the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) from S&P Global and IHS Markit — News Corp, the news and media conglomerate headed by Rupert Murdoch, will pay $1.15 billion in cash for the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) …
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News Corporation and @sarafischer
Nieman Lab:
Interviews with 200 news professionals in the US and EU shed light on crime reporting, as US newsrooms embrace empathy toward wrongdoers like some EU newsrooms — When suspects' names appear in crime stories, their lives may be broken and never put back together.
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@jeffcanoy, @kimbui and @jimmacmillan
Maya Wolfe-Robinson / The Guardian:
Report: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok failed to act on 84% of posts spreading anti-Semitism reported via their own complaint systems — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok failing to act on most reported anti-Jewish posts, says study
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The Times of Israel, @blackamazon, @madisonkittay, @ccdhate, @gerrarrdus, @ld_birdywatcher, @rlux and @dethveggie, more at Techmeme »
Delia Cai / Vanity Fair:
Profile of Blackbird Spyplane newsletter, created in 2020 by 2 pop culture writers, which has landed interviews with celebrities including Lorde and André 3000 — Over dinner earlier this summer, the still-new sensation of seeing friends up close and slightly sweating gave …
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@delia_cai, @donetodeath, @chaykak, @blkbrd_spyplane and @vanityfair
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Brands and media buyers say they prefer Roku and The Trade Desk to YouTube's CTV ecosystem, which lacks tools to manage ad frequency and traditional metrics — This upfront season revealed some holes in Google's connected TV advertising offering — Google is having trouble convincing large advertisers …