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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook says it's banning all ads for cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and binary options to avoid “misleading or deceptive promotional practices” — It's an “intentionally broad” policy aimed at stopping scammers. — Facebook is banning all ads that promote cryptocurrencies …
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Vice Media has fired Chief Digital Officer Mike Germano following two separate allegations of sexual misconduct against him — Vice Media has fired its chief digital officer, Mike Germano, after at least two women accused him of sexual misconduct, TheWrap has learned.
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Chad Bray / New York Times:
Private equity firm Blackstone buys 55% stake in Thomson Reuters financial and risk division, valuing the unit at $20B including debt — LONDON — What is now Thomson Reuters came to life a decade ago in a $17 billion merger of the Thomson financial information business and the Reuters news service.
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Kathy E. Gill / WiredPen:
Creators of FactStream app for iOS tested curation of live fact checks of State of the Union speech, sourced from Washington Post, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org — On January 9, 2018, less than year after being sworn in as president of the United States, Donald Trump told his 2,000th lie.
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Sam Charles / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago Sun-Times EIC Chris Fusco says Times will not publish anything by Richard Roeper as it investigates allegations he paid to boost his Twitter followers — The Chicago Sun-Times will not publish columns or reviews authored by Richard Roeper as the newspaper investigates the legitimacy of Roeper's sizable Twitter following.
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Journalists who receive anything deemed classified by the government could face up to five years in prison under Australia's proposed espionage laws — SYDNEY, Australia — When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia recently proposed new espionage laws, he stressed the need for disclosure …
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Study: Twitter cuts into Facebook's lead on traffic sent to publishers; this month FB sent 2.5 visitors for each one Twitter sent, down from 4.7:1 in Oct. 2017 — Publishers are freaking out about Facebook's plan to show 20% less news in the News Feed. But over the past four months …
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Subsidiary of Canada's The Katz Group has bought a majority stake in Laura Ingraham's LifeZette; Ingraham maintains a minority stake — Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz's company is the new owner of LifeZette, the site co-founded by Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
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Yimian Wu / China Money Network:
Bytedance, operator of Chinese news app Toutiao, sues Baidu for unfair competition, claims Baidu deliberately places negative news about Toutiao in top results — Beijing Bytedance Telecommunications Co., Ltd., the operator of personalized news app Toutiao, has sued China's largest search engine Baidu Inc …
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Steve Gunn / Virginian-Pilot:
Virginian-Pilot announces it will outsource much of its newsroom print design to Pagemasters North America starting this spring, leading to six layoffs — The Virginian-Pilot announced Tuesday that it will outsource much of its newsroom print page design to an outside vendor.
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BBC:
PwC review of BBC pay structure found no gender bias in decision making, but identified anomalies, recommends clear pay framework, narrower pay ranges — Today the BBC has published a review of on-air pay carried out by PwC, and set out a five-point plan to help create a fairer and more equal BBC.
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Hyundai pulls planned Super Bowl ad that promoted women's empowerment after response to similar Audi ad last year and poor results with male focus group — Television ads for the big game are emerging from months of work in Madison Avenue war rooms — In early August, creative teams …
Pew Research Center:
Pew: analysis of 9.7M tweets shows 75% of tweets about immigration contained links to news sites, with NYT and The Hill as the two most-tweeted sites — An analysis of 9.7 million tweets reveals that news organizations played the largest role in which content was linked to compared with other information providers
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