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ProPublica:
Analysis: how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinformation in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
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@craignewman, @oliviasolon, @janebsinger, ProPublica, Beyond Search, @jason_kint, @lutherlowe, @craigsilverman, @profcarroll and @craigsilverman
Ben Smith / Semafor:
A look at a complaint against The China Project, alleging the US-based news company acts as a “foreign agent” and China influenced its coverage, which it denies — Shannon Van Sant's career neatly tracks the American media's romance and disillusion with China.
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@john_hudson, @limlouisa, @semaforben, The China Project, @aaronmcn, @changxche, @limlouisa and @aadilbrar
Scroll.in:
The Wire says the Delhi Police searched its office and the homes of four editors due to a complaint by BJP's Amit Malviya alleging cheating, forgery, and more — The searches were conducted in relation to a complaint filed by BJP leader Amit Malviya, founding editor of the website MK Venu told Scroll.in.
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The Indian Express:
The Wire files a complaint with the Delhi Police against its researcher Devesh Kumar a day after police charged its journalists for alleged forgery and more — The complaint has been filed against Devesh Kumar who is allegedly involved in the fabrication of documents and forgery in connection …
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Scroll.in, @zoeschiffer, @kevincollier and @film_girl
Daniel Rosney / BBC:
BBC will cut 48 jobs in local radio, with 39 networks in England sharing programs between 2PM and 6AM, as it prioritizes digital content — BBC local radio stations will have a significant number of programmes cut under new plans, the corporation has announced.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith will become a senior advisor to Emerson Collective, one of the top local news funding sources, giving $60M+ in grants since 2016 — Evan Smith, the CEO and co-founder of the Texas Tribune, will be a senior advisor to Emerson, which has emerged as one of the top funding sources …
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@semaforben, @peterlattman, @pamelacolloff, @ralstonreports, @evanasmith, @jason_kint, @hodgman and @eramshaw
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Chartbeat: in 2022, traffic from Apple News and other aggregators fell to 14% of traffic referred by social, search, and links, down from 18-20% in 2020 — Three years ago, publisher analytics firm Chartbeat saw news aggregators becoming the fastest growing traffic referral source.
Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:
Bloomberg launches Audience Accelerator, its first-party ad platform built using data on its 450,000 subscribers and 5M registered users — Bloomberg Media just turned off third-party ads on its site. But as it shuts the door to open-market programmatic, Bloomberg is opening a first-party data advertising platform.
Lynette Rice / Deadline:
Peacock signs a deal with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Movies & Mysteries, and Drama, its first such deal — Peacock has closed a pact with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama.
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The Streamable, Next TV, Variety, Ad Age, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, Media Play News, The Hollywood Reporter, TVLine, IndieWire and Advanced Television
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Amazon will launch a 12-hour daily schedule of sports talk shows, with seven shows available for free over Prime Video and its other audio and visual platforms — MORE FROM: — In its continued effort to become a full-time destination for sports, Amazon will have its own lineup …
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Awful Announcing, The Streamable and The Hollywood Reporter
Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill / The Guardian:
The UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hires Amber de Botton, the head of UK news at ITV News, as his director of communications — Journalist Amber de Botton takes special adviser role for new prime minister — Rishi Sunak has hired Amber de Botton as his director of communications …
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Chris Davis / WTVF-TV:
The Nashville Banner, which served the city for 122 years until 1998, plans to relaunch as a nonprofit news site with Scripps' local TV station as its partner — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In Demetria Kalodimos's office, a motto can be found all over: Real people, true stories.
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@henryrothenberg and MediaPost
Eli Pariser / Wired:
Elon Musk's ad-dependent Twitter isn't the global town square democracies need; we need an overlapping ecosystem of smaller publicly owned digital social spaces — This is a moment to choose a different path, inspired by the lessons of thriving offline communities.
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CNBC:
General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership”
General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership”
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Among tech companies, Twitter has been the biggest defender of online free speech, globally; fired head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde drove much of that work
Among tech companies, Twitter has been the biggest defender of online free speech, globally; fired head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde drove much of that work
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