Mediagazer: Instagram debuts IGTV, a hub for high-profile creators, and says it will begin letting users upload videos up to an hour long, up from previous one minute limit (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

6:50 PM ET, June 20, 2018

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Katherine Krueger / Splinter:

Twitter temporarily suspended some accounts that simply linked to a Splinter post that shared a phone number for White House adviser Stephen Miller — This morning, Splinter published the personal cell phone number of White House adviser Stephen Miller, an official so monstrous …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram debuts IGTV, a hub for high-profile creators, and says it will begin letting users upload videos up to an hour long, up from previous one minute limit — Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company announced …

Discussion: Instagram, TechCrunch, Digiday, MediaPost, Fast Company, The Verge, Adweek, The Wrap, VentureBeat, Slate, @theperezhilton, @supersaf, @jonathan_gantt, Bloomberg, @instagram, @backlon, @joshconstine, SlashGear, @kantrowitz, Gizmodo, @shiraovide, Fortune and @joshconstine, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: prosecutors have subpoenaed National Enquirer publisher American Media for records of its 2016 payment to Karen McDougal as part of Michael Cohen probe — Prosecutors eye whether company coordinated with ex-Trump lawyer on payment to bury affair allegation

Discussion: The Wrap and Mediaite

CNBC:

Walt Disney Company has raised its bid for 21st Century Fox's film and TV assets to $38 a share, up from $28 in December — - The new bid rivals Comcast's $35 a share all-cash bid last week, in a deal that would be valued at $65 billion. — Fox's Rupert Murdoch said in statement …

Discussion: The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, MacRumors, @adamofgotham, @damac1214, @asharma, @pkafka and @cgasparino

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Comcast's footprint in the broadband market would be a red flag to regulators looking at 21st Century Fox deal

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Ringer, Vanity Fair and Deadline

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

ABC News apologizes after showing a chyron for about five seconds falsely stating Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to manslaughter — ABC News apologized on Monday for accidentally reporting that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to five charges of manslaughter.

Discussion: @realdonaldtrump, @abcnewspr, Fox News, Variety, Mediaite, @cotatninetz, @brianstelter and iMediaEthics

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Sources: AT&T plans to acquire Otter Media, the streaming video company it co-owns with The Chernin Group, in a deal expected to close this summer — Fresh off its Time Warner acquisition, AT&T has another content deal in the works. — AT&T just spent $85 billion on a media company.

Discussion: The Wrap, CNBC, Multichannel News and FierceCable

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

Univision issues statement calling on Democrats and Republicans to end practice of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border — Univision strongly criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating the families of undocumented migrants at the U.S. border.

Discussion: New York Times, The New York Observer and Mediaite

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

EU Parliament panel passes copyright measures with final vote to come much later; Article 11 is “link tax”, and Article 13 mandates filtering uploaded content — In a key vote this morning the European Parliament's legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements …

Discussion: @eff, Hollywood Reporter, EDRi, RAIN News, Press Gazette, The Hill, @devlinhartline, @thehat2, The Independent and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Kevin Loker / Trust, Media and Democracy:

Media Insight Project study: about a third of people in US personally know a journalist or have been interviewed; 80% of those interviewed say coverage was fair — The American Press Institute released a new study on the relationship between the public and the press.

Discussion: American Press Institute, @nwatzman and @mayerjoy

Debra Birnbaum / Variety:

Apple gives a multi-series order to the nonprofit Sesame Workshop for a slate of live-action and animated children's programs, not including Sesame Street — - Dakota Fanning Tells Freddie Highmore ‘Alienist’ Is ‘One of the Greatest Experiences of My Life’ — Apple is getting into children's programming.

Discussion: The Wrap, Deadline, Broadcasting & Cable, Engadget, Stock Market News …, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and The A.V. Club

Jason Schwartz / Politico:

Source: Fox News' website is downplaying coverage of child separation at the US-Mexico border because traffic to stories about it has been low — With dwindling traffic on child-immigrant stories, the right's most influential news site downplays the issue.

Discussion: New York Times

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

The Telegraph, Guardian, and News UK announce a digital ad sales venture, The Ozone Project, to launch in fall, giving direct access to over 39.4M users — Three leading UK national news publishers have combined forces to create a jointly-owned advertising platform which they hope will build a …

Discussion: campaignlive.co.uk, GroupM, The Guardian, The Drum and Digiday

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Financial news network Cheddar has acquired free daily newsletter Need2Know, which covers tech, sports, business, and more and has 350K+ subscribers — Business news channel Cheddar announced it has acquired Need2Know, a free daily newsletter with more than 350,000 U.S. subscribers covering business …

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:

Dissecting how the US family-separation policy for immigrants became big news after percolating for months as reporters probed and legislators asked questions — How the many-chambered heart of the internet turned the Trump administration's family-separation policy into a different kind of scandal.

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
When DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told a sheriffs' association, “Don't believe the press”, she was following her boss's lead to discredit the media

Discussion: Washington Post, Bloomberg, Media Matters for America, The Hill, @sulliview, @nora_kelly, @mediaite and CNNMoney

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Nilagia McCoy / Shorenstein Center:
Breakdown of $1.8B in media-related grants from 2010-2015: 44% to public media, 5% to magazines, 12% to national nonprofits, 5% to local/state nonprofits

Discussion: @facttank, @evanasmith, Nonprofit Quarterly and Inside Philanthropy

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Taiwan-based news startup The News Lens says it raised a $3M-$4M Series C to finance its international expansion and has 9M unique monthly readers

Marie C. Baca / Columbia Journalism Review:
Facebooks's local news initiative includes off-the-record dinners with media, persistent pitches, and meetings with govt officials with some reporters left out

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
German startup Blinkist, which creates abridged versions of non-fiction books, raises $18.8M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners

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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: Univision began offering Gizmodo Media Group employees buyouts last week, in a bid to reduce its budget for editorial employees by 15%

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Patricia Hernandez / The Verge:
Theater chain AMC announces AMC Stubs A-List, a MoviePass-like service that lets patrons watch three films a week for $19.95/month

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Meena Lee / The Idea:
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google's Digital News Initiative partners with the UK's Centre for Investigative Journalism to run 20 free workshops on using online tools

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The Daily Beast:
About 50 newspaper executives flew in to Washington last week to lobby against newsprint tariffs; 24 senators now co-sponsoring a bill to suspend the tariffs

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Endemol Shine, the TV producer of Black Mirror that is co-owned by 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management, has hired bankers to pursue a sale

Discussion: Recode, Deadline and @sherman4949

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney names Jennifer Lee to lead Walt Disney Animation Studios and veteran Pixar director Pete Docter to lead Pixar, filling John Lasseter's dual roles

Discussion: Ad Age, The Playlist, Scroll.in, Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, Deadline, CNNMoney and EW.com

Jack Shafer / Politico:
Ali Watkins deserves a reprimand if she slept with a source, and a second chance, given that male reporters have escaped punishment over the years

Discussion: Poynter, @erikwemple, BuzzFeed, @hollyvhays, @kantrowitz, @byrontau and @blowryontv

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed:
Medium and GitHub scrub posts and database containing ICE employee LinkedIn data citing rules against doxxing; Twitter suspends bot tweeting info from database

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

Decrypt:
Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry

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