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Dean Sterling Jones / BuzzFeed News:
Snopes suspends its cofounder David Mikkelson after report finds he published 54 articles between 2015 and 2019 with plagiarized material from LAT and others — David Mikkelson, the cofounder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online …
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Ruchi Kumar / The Guardian:
Profile of Rukhshana, a news website started in 2020 by a collective of female Afghan journalists who are now at high risk of violence as the Taliban advance — A collective of female journalists are battling to make women's voices heard as the Islamist militants tighten their grip on the country
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@babcpw, @alex_n_boyd and @penamerica
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Azmat Khan / @azmatzahra:
[Thread] US reporters who worked in Afghanistan could help Afgan nationals, who worked with their media org, get referrals for US State Dept.'s refugee program — Are you an American journalist who's worked in Afghanistan? Then there's a 100% chance you hired Afghan nationals to help you with your work. Here's how you might be able to help them right now... (a thread)
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Roshan Noorzai / Voice of America:
As the Taliban advance in Afghanistan, more than 90 media outlets have closed down and 46 journalists have relocated to Kabul due to violence and threats — As the Taliban advance across Afghanistan, over 90 media outlets have closed down and concern for the safety of the country's journalists has increased.
Hollywood Reporter:
Some investors urge Disney to ditch its streaming bundle with Hulu and ESPN+ in favor of an all-in-one Disney+ offering, bringing it closer to the Netflix model — The success of the streaming bundle has led some investors to call for an all-in-one Disney+ streaming offering. Is CEO Bob Chapek interested?
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@bygeorgethomas, @davidpoland, @reeljeffewing and @alexweprin
Angela Fu / Poynter:
NPR has developed Dex, a tool attached to its CMS where staff submit information on sources' race, age range, gender identity, and location to monitor diversity — After deciding to track demographics for all its sources in 2020, NPR built a tool to make the process part of reporters' daily newsgathering
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@johngramlich, @peterbale, @raju, @louisestory, @tanyapampalone, @jamespoulos and @poynter
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Netflix blocks some residential IP addresses used by VPN services to bypass geographic restrictions; Netflix originals access is unaffected — Six years ago, Netflix started blocking customers who tried to access its service over a commercial VPN or proxy service.
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Ars Technica, The Diff, Plagiarism Today and The Streamable
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
In “symbolic deportation”, Russia won't renew a BBC journalist's visa that ends in August in retaliation for Britain not issuing visas to Russian journalists — Russia has told a BBC journalist working in Moscow to leave the country by the end of this month in retaliation …
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New York Times, Bloomberg, @miriamelder, The Times, The Daily Beast and The Moscow Times
Kelly Gilblom / Bloomberg:
Study of 6,000 websites and 900 apps that host pirated movies and TV finds they make ~$1.3B per year from ads, including ads by Amazon, Facebook, and Google — - Stolen-content providers make $1.3 billion a year, study says — Amazon, Facebook, Google contribute ads to the websites
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Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Interview with LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, on focusing on journalistic strength and user engagement, not blocking the Tribune sale to Alden, and more — When you walk in the room, do you have sway? — I'm Kara Swisher. And you're listening to “Sway.”
Inside Radio:
National Association of Broadcasters and two other groups ask a court to re-examine FCC rules requiring disclosure of foreign ties of entities leasing airtime — The National Association of Broadcasters is joining forces with and the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters …
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Radio World and Radio & Television …
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
HBO Max plans to roll out a new app in the next four or five months for connected TVs, built from the ground up, after complaints of glitches in its current app — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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