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Silvia Killingsworth / The Awl:
Vox Media Editorial Director Lockhart Steele, founder of Curbed, has been fired; CEO staff memo said Steele admitted conduct “inconsistent with our core values” — In what appears to be the first and probably not the last repercussion of last week's Shitty Media Men list …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
After firing editorial director Lockhart Steele, Vox CEO Jim Bankoff tells staff that investigations into inappropriate conduct are ongoing — Bankoff said there are still people coming forward and that Gibson Dunn is investigating. — A day after Vox Media terminated editorial director Lockhart Steele …
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The Awl, CNNMoney, @rafat, @willsommer, @sarahnemerson, Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap
Business Insider:
Sources: anonymous list of harassment allegations circulated among media staffers leads to creation of internal tip line and investigation of claims at BuzzFeed — - BuzzFeed is investigating allegations of harassment by its employees. — The investigation follows a BuzzFeed report about a list titled “Sh—
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BuzzFeed and @ssmoghadam
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control — In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual.
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Nieman Lab, @landongn, @brendannyhan, Axios, @svthmc, @jessicakia, @batchelor4lyfe, @justinmduke, @clancynewyork, @katherinemiller and @katherinemiller, more at Techmeme »
Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:
Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018 — Billboard has announced that its Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts — which measure singles and albums, respectively …
Emily Tan / Campaign:
Google debuts machine learning-powered TV Content Explorer to catalog shows and beta forecasting and pacing models that predict ad inventory across devices — Google launches TV content explorer and a series of other updates for programmatic TV — Google has launched a machine-learning powered tool …
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The Drum
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Proposed Honest Ads Act covers disclosure of political ad spending but fails to address the power of viral unpaid organic posts from fake accounts on Facebook — A BIPARTISAN GROUP of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would require online political advertisers to provide additional disclosures …
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Nieman Lab, MediaShift, BuzzFeed, @digiphile, @adams, Axios and The Verge
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Inside MLK50, a year-long digi-journalism project on economic inequality and underrepresentation of blacks in Memphis, which will end April 4, 2018 — “Memphis is a microcosm of what's going on in a lot of urban centers around the country. It's an extreme example of what happens when things …
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@wendi_c_thomas
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Researchers: 41 sites linked to 301networks, which is closing, used session hijacking and other techniques in scheme to defraud major advertisers of up to $20M — A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals how seemingly-credible players in the ad supply chain can play an active role in — and profit from — fraud.
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@counternotions and @timschu
Twitter:
Twitter unveils user safety roadmap through Jan. 2018: expand definitions of non-consensual nudity, update policy around hate, add info for suspended accounts — As we said last week, we're updating our approach to make Twitter a safer place. This won't be a quick or easy fix, but we're committed to getting it right.
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Axios, BuzzFeed, Consumerist, The Hill, @brucefalck, New York Magazine, Adweek, @caseynewton, Variety, Mashable, Business Insider, TechCrunch and Engadget
Max Willens / Digiday:
Nearly 36K people have signed up for The Hive's personalized newsletter, which emails readers stories about the specific figures they've chosen to follow — In politics and business, there are certain figures that warrant constant attention. For the past six months, Vanity Fair brand …
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Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
US news outlets repeatedly cited @TEN_GOP Twitter account linked to Russia, including its claim that machines didn't allow votes for Trump in PA — Twitter suspended the account 11 months after the Tennessee Republican Party flagged it as fake. But that was too late to keep its divisive rhetoric …
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Gizmodo, @securedemocracy, @karlbode, @kevincollier and Real Stories
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