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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Glenn Beck's TheBlaze laid off more than a dozen employees as negotiations to sell the site to backers of The Daily Wire broke down — Conservative media firebrand Glenn Beck's multimedia empire TheBlaze appears to be on its last legs after another round of layoffs and after a prospective high-profile buyer lost interest.
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Mediaite, @brianstelter, @hc_richardson, @thedailybeast and @maxwelltani
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix fires PR head Jonathan Friedland; CEO Hastings memo: his use of the N-word at least twice “showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity” — In lengthy internal memo, CEO Reed Hastings addressed letting go top communications executive Jonathan Friedland …
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Laura McGann / Vox:
Study: male DC journalists reply on Twitter to other male journalists 92% of the time, retweet other men 69% of the time, and 62% of follows are other men — A new study reveals why female journalists are so much less influential on Twitter than men. — Anyone that follows Beltway Twitter knows it's …
TechCrunch:
Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited, a $2.99/month subscription service of curated content for kids, launches on iOS — Five and half years after it launched, one of the more popular apps for kids' reading and entertainment has finally arrived on the iOS. Amazon FreeTime Unlimited …
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App Store, Engadget, VentureBeat and 9to5Mac
Center for Cooperative Media:
Inside the collaboration by a community newspaper company, investigative nonprofits, and a university to investigate data behind high school sports concussions — John Schrag, the executive editor of a medium-sized group of community newspapers in Oregon, had known for a while about an unexamined pool …
Discussion:
The Rural Blog and @melaniesill
Rob Price / Business Insider:
Instagram deleted a 2017 ProPublica video identifying members of a violent white supremacist group citing “Community Guidelines” violation, later reinstated — - Instagram has taken down a video posted by news outlet ProPublica, saying it was in violation of its rules.
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@lhwaldron and Gizmodo
Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Appeal, a nonprofit journalistic site devoted to accessible coverage of local prosecutors, their practices, and their effect on average people — The site, recently rebranded from In Justice Today, wants to shine a light on a more mysterious part of the legal system by focusing …
Discussion:
@niemanlab, @niemanlab and @newsbyschmidt
Kelsey Ables / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Xinhua, China's largest state-run news agency, plans to use AI to make news videos, customize content, and, likely, to spread propaganda in China and abroad — Ming Xia, via Flickr. — In a 2016 address to propaganda cadres and state-run media personnel, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed dreams …
Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:
Instagram's IGTV had a chance to learn from the embarrassments of YouTube and Facebook, like conspiracy videos, but seems to have largely ignored the lessons — Its new video venture seems ill-prepared to weed out inappropriate content. — Facebook Inc. didn't learn from the last two years of internet scandals.
Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet:
Tumblr has agreed to cooperate with South Korean authorities to better monitor illegal porn distribution, Korea Communications Standards Commission says — Tumblr has agreed to better monitor illegal porn distribution with South Korean authorities after initially refusing to do so.
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Amid the national furor over its child separation policy, the White House has not held a press briefing since Monday — It has been a busy week at the White House as questions continue to swirl around the family separation policy at our nation's southern border as well as the true impact of Trump's executive order ending the policy.
Discussion:
The Guardian and Fox News
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
IFCN survey of 42 fact-checking projects: vast majority are small, new, digital-first nonprofits or academic initiatives; 62% had budgets under $100K in 2017 — ROME — Snopes. Full Fact. Chequeado. Teyit. Africa Check. — Chances are, no matter where you are …
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@mantzarlis and @poynter
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