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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Q&A with NYT's Peter Baker on interviewing President Trump with Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt: going on and off the record, staying on topic, more — A conversation with New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker. — President Trump's blockbuster interview …
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Facebook details progress with its Journalism Project after six months: 2.6K publishers met, new features and training for its products, more — Since launching the Facebook Journalism Project, we've met with 2,600 publishers around the globe to create a dialogue around how they use …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook begins disabling the ability to edit the headline, text, and images on link previews, with exceptions for original publishers — Until now, any Facebook Page that posted a link could change the headline, body text and image that appeared in the News Feed preview.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
YouTube collaborates with Jigsaw to launch Redirect Method, responding to certain keyword searches with videos that discredit extremist recruiting narratives — YouTube is taking its next step in countering extremism and terrorist content on its platform. Today the company announced …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter says it's taking action on 10x the number of abusive accounts as it did last year, and 65% of disciplined accounts don't commit second infraction — But real data is in short supply — A sustained push to reduce abuse on Twitter has shown promising results, the company said …
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Felix Gillette / Bloomberg:
Profile of Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose low production values and politically conservative agenda are clashing with local newsrooms as the network expands — In the menagerie of television talking heads who have come to prominence advocating for Donald Trump, Boris Epshteyn is hardly the most memorable.
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Maxim Eristavi / Washington Post:
I'm a Ukrainian journalist, tired of living in fear a year after the unsolved car-bomb assassination of reporter Pavel Sheremet — People take part in a procession July 20 marking the one-year anniversary of the death of journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed by a car bomb, in Kiev.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube TV expands to 10 new areas, including Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, D.C., Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, up from its five launch metros — YouTube TV, Google's entry in the crowded market of live TV streaming services, is now available in ten more U.S. metros, the company announced this morning.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Vimeo promotes Anjali Sud, who has been the video company's general manager, to CEO — Anjali Sud gets a promotion; Joey Levin goes back to running IAC full time. — Vimeo has a new boss, after going more than a year without a full-time leader. — Parent company IAC has promoted Anjali Sud …
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Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Demands that Al Jazeera be shuttered have been dropped by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain, which cut diplomatic ties with Qatar in June — ROME - Demands that Al Jazeera be shuttered have been dropped by the four Arab nations engaged in a deep diplomatic dispute with Qatar, the home base of the pan-Arabic news network.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
A look at CNN Talk, a weekly half-hour politics chat show streamed on Facebook Live and TV simultaneously — Since May 5, CNN International has produced “CNN Talk,” a half-hour politics chat show streamed on Facebook Live and TV simultaneously at noon London time each Friday.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New research finds people struggle to detect fake images and pinpoint where they've been manipulated — I recently, shamefully fell for a photo plastered all over my timeline last week of Vladimir Putin sitting in a chair at G-20 as other world leaders, including Donald Trump …
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