Mediagazer: Pew: 77% of US newsroom employees are non-Hispanic whites, 61% are male, and 48% are non-Hispanic white men, more white male than overall US workers, industries (David Kent/Pew Research Center)

1:50 AM ET, November 4, 2018

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After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users — Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race …

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

Tow-Knight Center announces project to create a trust indicator for news outlets that aggregates the corpus of fact-checks, endorsements, public trust, and more — Any attempt to declare which news sources are good and which are bad is a task freighted with danger.

Discussion: @jeffjarvis, @jbenton, @zielina, @niemanlab and @niemanlab

Todd Spangler / Variety:

EDO, a startup that uses consumer behavioral data from search engines and shopping sites to measure effectiveness of TV ads, raises $12M in Series A funding — EDO, co-founded by actor and entrepreneur Edward Norton, has banked $12 million in Series A funding to fuel its buildout …

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat and Deadline

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:

Amazon will stop emailing popular Washington Post articles to customers as of November 5, possibly to avoid accusations of partisanship — - Online retailer distances itself from Bezos-owned newspaper — Trump has said news organization is Amazon's ‘chief lobbyist’

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple News partners with AP for real-time results in Election Night section, with stories from Axios, Fox, WaPo, NYT, others; launches 8pm Eastern, November 6 — Apple is preparing to launch a new way for its customers to track election results. The company, on 8 PM ET on November 6 …

Discussion: Engadget, MacRumors, Slate, 9to5Mac and Editor & Publisher

David Kent / Pew Research Center:

Pew: 77% of US newsroom employees are non-Hispanic whites, 61% are male, and 48% are non-Hispanic white men, more white male than overall US workers, industries — Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than U.S. workers overall. There are signs, though, of a turning tide …

Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:

Forbes cuts ties with sports business columnist and deletes post arguing WNBA players should earn higher salaries after the NBA voiced concerns to editors — Forbes magazine cut ties with a contributing columnist and sports economics professor last week after a dispute over his piece about WNBA player salaries.

Discussion: @memcnally, @dhellingsports and @esoterictalia

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

How audience engagement editors, once called social media managers, are shifting to revenue-generating work and less toward just driving traffic — Audience development pros have always been crucial to how publishers reach new readers. But increasingly, they're all about the revenue …

Discussion: @jenniferbrandel, @nisalahe, @digiday, @fizapirani and @localnewsini, Thanks:@steverubel

BuzzFeed News:

Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers' local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue — On Friday morning, the Twitter trending topic “Kill all Jews” appeared in many New Yorkers' local trending sections.

Discussion: @robmanuel, @profcarroll, @bostonjoan, @jordanuhl, The Next Web, Motherboard, The Wrap and Boing Boing

Media Matters for America:

Study: The New York Times and Washington Post have run 115 total news stories on the migrant caravan in the last three weeks, front page 9 of last 10 days — Leading papers produced 115 news stories referencing the caravan, put 25 on A1 — President Donald Trump has taken Fox News' advice …

Discussion: @mattgertz, @benwikler, @ericboehlert, @mannyvu89, @hrcpersists, @jbenton and The Daily Beast

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

Pew study: of four UK newspapers, The Guardian is most trusted among people 18-29; 40% never listen to radio news, and 19% say they never watch TV news — Survey suggests Britons under 30 seek out reliable news websites associated with traditional outlets — The Guardian is the most …

Discussion: @rasmus_kleis, @bbcalagiah and @aaronbastani

Jason Schreier / Kotaku:

UK-based Trusted Reviews apologizes for sharing Red Dead Redemption 2 info from a corporate document and donates £1M+ to charity, likely under legal threat — The British website TrustedReviews today pulled an article, apologized to publisher Take-Two Games, and said it was donating 1 million pounds …

Discussion: @simoncarless, @kezamacdonald, @crecenteb, @tha_rami, @kyleorl, Trusted Reviews, Kotaku, RockstarINTEL, ScreenRant and Variety

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