Mediagazer: Hulu announces a major business reorganization; Chief Content Officer Joel Stillerman and two VPs are leaving, and Dan Phillips, formerly of TiVo, joins as CTO (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

3:35 PM ET, June 1, 2018

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Facebook to shut down Trending and is testing new features like a breaking news label for publishers, a Today In section, and a News Video in Watch section — NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is shutting down its ill-fated “trending” news section after four years, a company executive told The Associated Press.

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Ned Berke / Center for Cooperative Media:

Facebook's plans to manage promoted political content: a machine learning classifier begins June 6 and will scan text and images for terms related to politics — Facebook announced on May 24 that any Facebook Page promoting political content on the platform will need to follow the platform's rules for …

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Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Facebook's new promoted content rules block some ads from Vice, Newsmax, others, classifying ads as political and requiring advertiser verification via mail — 'Everything we've tried to do in the past couple days has just been shut down,' says one publisher

Discussion: @samanthamvb, @alansoon, @matt_cagle and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Dan Rys / Billboard:

Spotify updates its hateful content and conduct policy, says it will no longer use the provision that led to removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists — Three weeks after Spotify announced a new policy regarding hate content and hateful conduct on its service …

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Sahil Patel / Digiday:

While BuzzFeed's audience for lifestyle content is large, its news unit drove its first two deals with Netflix and Hulu as it works to find revenue beyond ads — BuzzFeed has built a sizable audience on YouTube and Facebook with its entertainment and lifestyle content.

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The Daily Beast:

Tracing Maria Bartiromo's shift from fierce financial journalist at CNBC to pro-Trump Fox anchor whose ratings soared as her embrace of Trumpism progressed — “President Obama politicized all of his agencies: the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the CIA—they were all involved in trying to take down Donald Trump."

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @ivanthek and @dangillmor

Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:

Joy Reid apologizes for old posts on the blog she started in 2005: “I'm sorry for the collateral damage and pain” — Problems piling up at NBC — After months of scrutiny and questions surrounding her now-shuttered blog, MSNBC Joy Reid offered an unconditional apology on Friday …

Discussion: Mediaite, BuzzFeed, USA Today, Variety, HuffPost, TVNewser and @sdkstl

Rebecca Keegan / Vanity Fair:

Columnist Nikki Finke plans to return to the web, first by tweeting election commentary before launching a new politics focused website — The once feared Hollywood columnist is training her eye on politics. — Like many Democrats, Nikki Finke spent Election Night 2016 in an emotional fetal position.

Discussion: @jpodhoretz

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hulu announces a major business reorganization; Chief Content Officer Joel Stillerman and two VPs are leaving, and Dan Phillips, formerly of TiVo, joins as CTO — On the heels of Hulu's news of its growing live TV business, which has now reached 800,000 subscribers, the streaming service today announced …

Discussion: The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, MediaPost, Variety and Decider, more at Techmeme »

Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:

Roseanne's comments received 16 times the coverage of a new study that estimates Hurricane Maria toll at ~4,654 deaths, a neglect symptomatic of systemic racism — For those who argue that the media has misplaced priorities when it comes to coverage choices, this week has provided a case study to support their position.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Washington Post, @pbump, Fortune, USA Today, Slate, @spj_tweets, FYIMusicNews, @bradycarlson, @sulliview, CBS News, @ap and @afp

Kriston Capps / CityLab:

Study of 1,266 US counties from 1996-2015 finds government costs in cities increase when local newspaper close and can no longer act as watchdogs — When local newspapers shut their doors, communities lose out. People and their stories can't find coverage. Politicos take liberties when it's nobody's job to hold them accountable.

Discussion: @ndhapple, @citylab, @patc and The Rural Blog

Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:

Fandango and Comcast launch a new voice integration for Xfinity X1 users that lets them purchase tickets from their TV while watching a movie preview — Advance tickets for Universal's June 22 release Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom went on sale today and at the same time Fandango …

Tim Mak / NPR:

Reporter Tim Mak posts audio of 2015 legal threats from Michael Cohen: “Tread very fucking lightly” and “I will take you for every penny you still don't have” — Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office …

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