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12:30 AM ET, June 27, 2018

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Selina Wang / Bloomberg:
Twitter to require email or phone number confirmation for new accounts, use ML to take action on spammy accounts, add warning on accounts behaving suspiciously  —  - Platform will require new accounts to confirm email or phone  — Twitter will place warning sign on suspicious accounts
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Spotify hires Dawn Ostroff as chief content officer, to join in August; Ostroff had been president of Condé Nast Entertainment, the publisher's video studio  —  Spotify has hired Dawn Ostroff, a veteran television and video executive, as its new chief content officer …
Trevor Timm / The Intercept:
Reality Winner pleads guilty to violating the Espionage Act, agreeing to 63 months in prison, the longest known term for a violation linked to a media leak  —  Whistleblower Reality Winner entered into a plea deal with the Justice Department on Tuesday, ostensibly putting an end to her case …
Ben Munson / FierceCable:
Cisco announces it is working with Disney's StudioLAB, an innovation space at its Burbank studios, on remote collaboration, security, and IP-based video tech  —  Cisco is the newest founding member and Innovation Partner for Walt Disney Studio's StudioLAB, an initiative aimed at developing next-generation media and entertainment.
Discussion: Variety and VentureBeat
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter Communications announces its first original scripted series, L.A.'s Finest, to be offered to Spectrum cable subscribers in 2019  —  The 13-episode drama will premiere in 2019.  —  It's official: Bad Boys spinoff L.A.'s Finest, starring Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union …
Nicole Friedman / Wall Street Journal:
Iowa-based Lee Enterprises will operate BH Media's newspapers under a five-year deal for $5M/year and a cut of earnings over $34M; BH Media CEO to step down  —  Warren Buffett says the challenges to the industry are ‘clear,’ but ‘I believe we can benefit by joining efforts’
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Sony is shutting down Sony Crackle, its ad-supported video service, in Canada on June 28  —  Sony Pictures is shuttering Sony Crackle in Canada: The ad-supported video service will be closing its doors in Canada on June 28.  Crackle Canada has been telling consumers about the closure …
Discussion: Tubefilter
Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
The MIT Technology Review has rebranded its design and print edition, which will now focus on one subject per issue, like blockchain  —  The rebrand expands each issue from a summary of articles into a small book discussing the past, present, and future of a single technology.
Discussion: @glichfield and Talking Biz News
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Dan Ingram, a popular disc jockey who worked at New York radio stations for around four decades, died Sunday aged 83  —  Dan Ingram, a popular disc jockey whose wisecracks and double entendres rippled through the air at rock ‘n’ roll stations in New York City from the early 1960s to the early 21st century …
Discussion: NPR and Radio & Television …
Polly Curtis / HuffPost UK:
HuffPost UK, based in London, is relocating to Birmingham (UK) for a week and hosting an open newsroom in the city, as part of its HuffPost Listens project  —  We're setting up an open newsroom in the city centre and inviting people to tell us what really matters.  Here's why - and how you can get involved
Discussion: HoldtheFrontPage
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
USA Today Network is launching a conservative opinion newsletter, offering both aggregated content and original takes, similar to theSkimm  —  Since its founding in 1982, USA Today has prided itself on a feel for all 50 states that eludes East Coast media.  Now its network is launching …
Discussion: @noltenc, @owillis and @damemagazine
 
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Tina Dyakon / Poynter:
Barbara Allen, director of student media at Oklahoma State University, has been named Poynter's managing editor, effective from 16 July
Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company decided to rely on human editors to curate Apple News, over algorithms, because “news was kind of going a little crazy”
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A look at the journalists fighting for press freedom across Southeast Asia, in the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia
Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
The Sacramento Bee is trying to increase its subscriptions from 15K to 60K within the next few years, to become completely sustained by reader revenue
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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