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6:55 PM ET, June 6, 2018

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook partners with seven news orgs, including ABC News, CNN, and Fox News, to roll out a series of news shows on Facebook Watch this summer  —  After going through the fake-news wringer, Facebook is shelling out money on original news content.  The strategy is partly aimed at driving …
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Nick Baumann / HuffPost:
After naming woman behind anti-Muslim Twitter account, a HuffPost reporter's Twitter account was temporarily suspended, while he and colleagues were threatened
Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:
The New Yorker's editorial staff are unionizing with the NewsGuild of New York  —  The era of white-collar organized labor is fully upon us: the editorial staff of The New Yorker wants to unionize.  This morning, organizers sent a letter to the magazine's editor, David Remnick …
Pan Kwan Yuk / Financial Times:
Daily Mail's Paul Dacre to step down in November as editor, a post he has held for 26 years, will serve as chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers  —  Paul Dacre will step down as editor of the Daily Mail in November, bringing the curtain down on a 26-year run at the tabloid …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook tests Lip Sync Live feature to compete with musical.ly and says users can now upload videos with copyrighted music  —  Facebook users will no longer have their uploaded videos with copyrighted background music taken down thanks to a slew of deals with all the major record labels plus many indies.
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos  —  Feature to allow videos of up to an hour in length  —  Instagram, which allows users to post photos and brief glimpses …
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Snap hires Flipboard's ex-Head of Publisher Partnerships Sarah Gallagher to lead its newly created 12-person support team for publishers  —  Snapchat is looking to get publishers more invested into the platform with a key new hire of a publishing veteran.  —  Former Flipboard …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Details of media access to next week's summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore remain unsettled; journalists hope White House pushes for broad access  —  Reporters express concerns about the historic summit between the president and a repressive dictator in a host country known for censorship.
Hannah Karp / Billboard:
Sources: Spotify has offered advance fees to managers and indie acts in exchange for licensing music directly to Spotify, cutting out music labels in some cases  —  Spotify has offered advances to a number of managers and indie acts in exchange for licensing their music directly to the streaming service, sources tell Billboard.
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Sources: YouTube has been interviewing people with proven journalism backgrounds for a position that is believed to relate to a new YouTube news initiative  —  YouTube, like Facebook, has a spotty history when it comes to news content.  But, also like the social network …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Fox News host Shannon Bream offered an on-air apology on Tuesday night following Monday segment on Philadelphia Eagles players  —  Fox News host Shannon Bream offered an on-air apology on Tuesday night following a Monday segment where she suggested that Philadelphia Eagles players who were kneeling …
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Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
Business publication Fast Company is unionizing with the Writers Guild of America East  —  Business magazine's 40 editorial staffers become 14th media group to join the Writers Guild of America East  —  Joe Ricketts could not stop the trend of media outlets unionizing.  In fact, he may have helped it.
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

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