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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 …
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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 …
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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
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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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campaignlive.co.uk, GroupM, The Guardian, The Drum and Digiday
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% — - Cuts are latest sign of retrenchment in digital-media industry — Spanish-language broadcaster to cut $100 million this year
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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.
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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
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