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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Three CNN staffers resign after retracted Russia-Scaramucci story: reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau, and CNN Investigates executive editor Lex Haris — Thomas Frank, a reporter for “CNN Investigates,” last Thursday appeared to have a compelling exclusive on the story of the year.
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Sources: morale at CNN is low after the resignation of three staffers, with some questioning the harshness of the punishment — CNN President Jeff Zucker sought to rally employees on Tuesday morning after three staffers resigned over the network's retracted Russia story.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Project Veritas releases video of man it alleges is CNN supervising producer John Bonifield, criticizing the network's Trump-Russia coverage — The video, which arrives after three journalists resigned over a retracted Russia story, is from conservative provocateur James O'Keefe.
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders urges everyone to watch an anti-CNN video by James O'Keefe, adding “whether it's accurate or not, I don't know” — Sarah Huckabee Sanders urges people to watch video that shows CNN producer criticizing network's coverage - despite not being able to vouch for its accuracy
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Axel Springer and Murdoch's News Corp applaud EU Commission's fine of $2.7B against Google for abusing search engine dominance — The European Commission penalized Google for violating antitrust rules. — Major media companies have a well-documented love-hate relationship with tech giants like Google and Facebook.
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Marc Schneider / Billboard:
Pandora winds down operations in Australia and New Zealand, the only territories where it operates outside of the US — Pandora is pulling the plug on Australia and New Zealand, the only international territories where it operates, in an effort to focus solely on the United States.
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Guild at The Washington Post protests updated social media policy that lets management fire employees who disparage business partners, advertisers, more — You can be fired if your social-media activity “adversely affects The Post's customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners.”
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Bloomberg:
Facebook partners with Fox Sports to live stream 12+ Champions League soccer matches in the US, as part of its strategy to entice advertisers to buy more — Soccer is already the most-followed sport on the social site — Some Champions League games will be exclusive to Facebook
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of 100M headlines published between March and May of 2017 reveals some of the most effective phrases for engagement, topped by “will make you” — Jostling for readers for your listicle on Facebook? Aim for the number “10” in your headline. — Trying to promote a story on Twitter?
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Google News unveils desktop redesign that highlights fact checking sites, streamlines design, and offers more personalization — “To give them that multitude of facts, voices, and perspectives, you want the UI to disappear and not be a sense of overload or cognitive load on them but just be transparent."
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Facebook video ad viewability rates range from 20% to 30%, far below the industry average, according to nine agency execs who started using third-party auditors — Facebook's metrics woes may be far from over. — After fessing up to a string of measurement errors over the past six months …
Jennings Brown / Gizmodo:
Zillow sends cease and desist letter to architectural criticism blog McMansion Hell for using its images for parody — Real estate aggregator site Zillow has sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of McMansion Hell, the most popular lampooner of suburban ticky-tacky monstrosities.
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