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Sheryl Sandberg / Facebook:
Facebook will strengthen enforcement of ad targeting policies, add more human oversight, and urge users to report potential abuses directly — Last week we temporarily disabled some of our ads tools following news reports that slurs or other offensive language could be used as targeting criteria for advertising.
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Blaming algorithms obscures the true source of Facebook's ad problem: the structure of the company's ad business and the decision-making of those who run it — Facebook's ad network lent itself to abuse by Russian hackers and racists. The problem has nothing to do with algorithms.
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Michael T. Kaufman / New York Times:
Lillian Ross, who had a six-decade reporting career at The New Yorker, dies at age 99 — Lillian Ross, who became known as the consummate fly-on-the-wall reporter in a six-decade career at The New Yorker, whether writing about Ernest Hemingway, Hollywood or a busload of Indiana high school seniors …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Report: the cost of distribution rights for every major televised sport in the US is larger than the ad revenue TV channels earn from airing them — The cost of distribution rights for every major televised sport in the United States is more than the ad revenue TV channels get from airing those sports …
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@win_ad, @axios, @ckrewson, @kevinmdraper and @craigsilverman
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Democratic senators and representatives urge Federal Election Commission to consider rules preventing foreigners from using social media ads to influence voters — Democrats on Capitol Hill are launching new efforts to prevent Russians and other foreigners outside the U.S. from using social media …
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The Hill, @dylanbyers, CNN and Editor & Publisher
Alexandra Martellaro / KSDK-TV:
Society of Professional Journalists condemns police assault and arrest of St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Mike Faulk amid protests — ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has released a statement condemning the arrest of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter downtown Sunday night.
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@mike_faulk, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, @mike_faulk, @ryanjreilly and Rolling Stone
Catherine York / Poynter:
Sullivan, Sill, Abramson, others on possible reasons why women comprise 2/3 of journalism and communications graduates, yet only one-third of media industry — Margaret Sullivan remembered standing in front of a class of Northwestern University journalism students.
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@deggans, @sarahparvini, @poynter and @mariehardinpsu
Hollywood Reporter:
NFL TV ratings have slid 12-15% in the opening weeks of the season, following an 8% drop last season; analysts and pundits are struggling to explain the decline — CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC will generate about $2.5 billion in NFL advertising revenue this season, but a 10 percent shortfall …
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Mike Shields / Business Insider:
Mic disputes comScore data that shows Mic traffic fell from 21.5M visitors in Dec '15 to under 10M this July, says comScore's missing views on social networks — - Mic's monthly audience has plummeted, according to comScore. Mic says comScore data is increasingly irrelevant.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Univision used WhatsApp group chats to distribute news and information during Hurricane Irma and is doing the same for Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico — Meet your audiences where they are — in Univision's case, preparing to weather a major storm, or evacuating in a car with only a phone in hand.
Seth Harp / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Mexico, journalists have more to fear by reporting on the government and politicians than they do by covering the drug cartels — Journalists arrange pictures of slain Mexican colleague Candido Rios during a demonstration in Mexico City on August 24, 2017.
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
US regulators approve Disney's acquisition of majority stake in BAMTech, which will be key in Disney's planned launch of an ESPN-branded streaming service — Will provide platform for ESPN and Disney branded OTT — The federal government has signed off on Disney's purchase of a majority stake in BAMTech …
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