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11:25 PM ET, February 25, 2019

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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Interviews with current and former Facebook content moderators in US show they make $28K/year, some develop PTSD, and a few are radicalized by fringe content  —  The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America  —  She spent the past three and a half weeks in training …
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Justin Osofsky / Facebook:
Facebook says it's committed to enforcing its expectations of working conditions for contractor moderators, and the firms it partners with excel in their domain  —  We know there are a lot of questions, misunderstandings and accusations around Facebook's content review practices …
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Univision says Jorge Ramos and his team, who were in Caracas to interview Maduro, were briefly detained at the palace after Maduro “didn't like” their questions  —  Univision reporter Jorge Ramos was detained at the presidential palace in Caracas Monday by order …
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Ratings for the 2019 Oscars, which had no host and ran 41 minutes shorter than last year's, increased ~12% YoY to 29.6M viewers, after 2018's all-time low  —  ABC's broadcast up by more than 10 percent from 2018's all-time low.  —  The 2019 Oscars delivered year-to-year gains in Sunday's ratings …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
At the Oscars, Netflix's Roma wins Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Film, but not Best Picture
John Williams / New York Times:
Five months after Editor Ian Buruma departed, the New York Review of Books has named Emily Greenhouse and Gabriel Winslow-Yost as co-editors  —  The New York Review of Books has installed two editors to lead the magazine after being without a top editor since the sudden departure of Ian Buruma in September.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Lara Logan says she was approached by right-wing media companies but doesn't want to be a “darling of the conservative media” and has not talked to Fox News  —  In a lengthy interview, Logan told THR she's been approached recently by right-leaning media companies but hasn't had discussions with Fox News.
Max Willens / Digiday:
Sources: publishers struggle to sell their Apple News inventory directly, citing limited user targeting and the inability to use programmatic advertising  —  Last year, Apple News brimmed with promise for publishers, offering an engaged, high-quality audience that seemed to do nothing but grow.
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Manish Singh / VentureBeat:
Mozilla partners with Scroll to test alternative funding models for the web, following the news subscription service's acquisition of Nuzzel earlier this month  —  News subscription service Scroll, which is yet to launch to consumers but has received the backing of several top publishers, courted another major player today: Mozilla.
Discussion: Future Releases
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Evening Standard's parent company says the newspaper's editorial integrity was formally protected in an agreement with Saudi shareholder  —  A formal agreement has been undertaken to protect the Evening Standard's editorial independence after a Saudi investor took on a large stake in its parent company.
Discussion: Financial Times
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sultan Mohamed Abuljadayel has been named as the mysterious off-shore purchaser of a stake in London's Evening Standard newspaper
Washington Post:
The Washington Post announces the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship, a new global opinions program established to honor the late Post columnist  —  Award-winning Saudi scholar and activist Hala Al-Dosari named inaugural fellow  —  The Washington Post today announced the launch of the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship …
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CBS San Francisco:
Multiple suspects arrested after a reporter and cameraman for a CBS affiliate in Oakland were robbed and their security guard was shot in the leg  —  OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A KPIX 5 news crew covering the Oakland teachers strike was robbed of a camera and tripod by two suspects …
 
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Dave McNary / Variety:
Hollywood agents are furious over a proposed “Code of Conduct” that the Writers Guild of America is proposing to its members, governing agents' behavior
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The Moscow Times:
Report: Igor Malashenko, founder of independent Russian TV channel NTV, has been found dead in Spain; sources say cause of death was suicide
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Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
Trailblazing feminist mag Spare Rib may be axed from the British Library's digital archive if there is no Brexit deal as it will lose EU copyright protections
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

 
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