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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The New York Times issues a statement standing by Sarah Jeong, its new editorial board hire, after criticisms arise of her old tweets blasting “white people” — The New York Times is facing backlash about its latest hire to its editorial board, Sarah Jeong, after multiple old tweets about …
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The Verge:
Editors of The Verge, where Sarah Jeong works now, stand by her and blast harassment over old tweets: “This is not a good-faith conversation; it's intimidation” — Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment — Since announcing her new job with The New York Times …
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Now that Facebook and other platforms have become “digital arms dealers”, Zuckerberg takes a crash course in free speech and propaganda, at a cost to the public — They have weaponized social media, and we are all paying the price. — Let me first state that I actually …
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Campbell Brown / Facebook Media:
Facebook extends its Local News Accelerator through the end of the year, launches a $3.5M Membership Accelerator program to help outlets with membership models — Today, we're excited to announce an additional $4.5 million investment in programs that support news publishers.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Music Group is buying Uproxx Media Group, which publishes HitFlix, Dime, and Uproxx.com; BroBible will not be part of the sale — The digital media company publishes brands like entertainment news site HitFlix, sports site Dime and Uproxx.com. — Digital publisher Uproxx Media Group …
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John Haltiwanger / Business Insider:
In response to a question from CNN's Jim Acosta, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders refuses to say “the press is not the enemy of the people” — - White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to answer a question from CNN's Jim Acosta about whether …
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Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Les Moonves told CBS board members months ago of an LAPD investigation into an alleged sexual assault; board hired an outside law firm to investigate — CBS board members learned several months ago that the Los Angeles Police Department had investigated an alleged sexual assault …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS beats Q2 estimates with net earnings of $400M, up 1% YoY, on revenue of $3.47B, up 6% YoY; Moonves doesn't address misconduct claims in earnings call — CBS Corp. turned in record-high revenue and profits for the second quarter of 2018, but declined to address continuing uncertainty over the fate of its CEO, Leslie Moonves
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: Awesomeness' value plunge was caused by the loss of $150M-$180M in Go90 revenue and an ownership structure that made unilateral decisions difficult — Subscribe to Digiday's weekly video briefing email, written by senior reporter Sahil Patel, for more exclusive coverage and analysis around …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
NY district court judge dismisses lawsuit by Seth Rich's parents against Fox News and also rejects defamation suit by investigator Rod Wheeler against Fox — The judge concludes that Joel and Mary Rich are impermissibly dressing up defamation claims against a deceased individual.
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The Daily Beast, TVNewser, CNNMoney, The Wrap and Mediaite
Monica Mercuri / Billboard:
Bytedance merges lip sync app Musical.ly, which it bought in November 2017, into its TikTok app, which has a new interface for easier video capture and editing — Musical.ly's new owner decides to nix the name and migrate the app's 100 million monthly active users to TikTok.
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The Information:
Sources: Google is developing a news aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws — Google is developing a news-aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws, part of a plan to re-enter …
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Bloomberg, Android Police, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Mashable, Fortune, New York Times, MediaNama, Beyond Search, TechNode, Entrackr, @moltke, @amir, The Intercept and Techdirt, more at Techmeme »
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