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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is developing a paid music service via a new app it expects to debut as early as this fall, mostly in emerging markets — - ByteDance plans to target listeners in emerging markets — Company has already secured rights from Indian record labels
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Study: despite News Feed changes, “junk news” from known sources of disinformation in EU get 1.2x-4x the engagement of professional news sources on Facebook — A study carried out by academics at Oxford University to investigate how junk news is being shared on social media …
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The Computational …, Nieman Lab, @polbots, @peterjukes, CNBC, @fabiochiusi, @peterjukes, @thegrugq and @benimmo
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media Hires Cory Haik, formerly publisher of Mic and former executive director of emerging news products at The Washington Post, as chief digital officer — Vice Media has recruited Cory Haik, former publisher of digital-media news start-up Mic, as chief digital officer to lead …
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Adweek and @katiedrumm
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
How ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro, who took over in March 2018, is betting on ESPN+, expanding social media offerings, and steering commentary away from politics — When the 2019 NFL draft took over downtown Nashville last month, ESPN became a city within the city, with more than 600 staffers …
Joel Mathis / KLC Journal:
Case study of dwindling newspapers in Kansas: interviews with leaders at McClatchy, Ogden, and GateHouse, in which GateHouse's CEO denies its model is predatory — As the financial challenges facing Kansas newspapers grow, a marked shift toward out-of-state ownership is rearranging the landscape.
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@ngerik, @will_bunch and @morganatopb
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Secretly recorded video of Austria's vice chancellor expressing desire to limit media freedoms underscores months-long threat to Austrian media — On Friday, May 17, the German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, published a secretly recorded video. In it, Austria's vice chancellor …
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New York Times, Vox, BBC, @makanaeyre, @willfitzgibbon, The Week and The Guardian
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
As platforms struggle to contain health misinformation, two women infiltrate private Facebook groups to find and report posts about dangerous “cures” for autism — Online groups urge parents to poison autistic kids with chlorine dioxide, a form of bleach, to “cure” them.
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@podiumnetwork, @brandyzadrozny, @profcarroll, @crackedscience, @taylorlorenz, @oneunderscore__ and NBC 10 Philadelphia
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Al Jazeera is planning to launch a cross-platform business vertical called AJ Impact with 10 full-time staffers to start — Al Jazeera is planning to launch a cross-platform business vertical called AJ Impact, executives tell Axios. It will feature original reporting from Al Jazeera journalists worldwide …
openDemocracy:
Insiders say Facebook and Google pressured EU's expert group on disinformation to soften fake news regulations and avoid discussing their abuse of market power — On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union's fight against disinformation.
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@taylor_owen, @mantzarlis, @mantzarlis, @mantzarlis, @rowlsmanthorpe, @emmalbriant, @taylor_owen, @johnobrennan2 and @mantzarlis
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Channel 4 News blocked from Brexit Party events following the outlet's investigation into the funding of party leader Nigel Farage — Channel 4 News is understood to be in talks with the Brexit Party after it was blacklisted from party events following an investigation into the funding of leader Nigel Farage.
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@marinahyde, paulwiltshireblog, @bendepear, @andywigmore, @daaronovitch, @davidlammy, Channel 4 News and indy100
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram quietly overhauls the design of IGTV to have just one central feed, much like TikTok, as it tries to ramp up the app's growth a year after launch — Instagram conquered Stories, but it's losing the battle for the next video formats. TikTok is blowing up with an algorithmically suggested vertical …
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@joshconstine, @joshconstine, 9to5Mac and Digiday
Thomas Peele / Mercury News:
Judge orders return of San Francisco journalist Bryan Carmody's equipment, delays consideration of legal questions about the search until June — News organizations and free press advocates around the country reacted with outrage to the raid on television reporter Bryan Carmody's home
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SPJ News, CNN, @davidgreene, @bryanccarmody, @alextarquinio, @apwestregion, @yashar, @dannoyes, @dannoyes, @yashar, @boutrousted, @yashar and @yashar
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Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
The 016, a small social network with no algorithmic feed, seeks to connect local media, organizations, and businesses with the citizens of Worcester, MA — Mark Henderson was getting ready to throw in the towel on his dreams of becoming a successful media entrepreneur.
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American Press Institute, @jbenton, @henderson_mark, @niemanlab and Dan Kennedy
New York Times:
Analysis: in 2019, Trump has far outspent individual Democratic candidates on Facebook ads, with a total spend of $4.9M, as he returns to his 2016 strategy — President Trump's re-election campaign has spent heavily on Facebook ads, reprising a strategy that was central to his 2016 victory.
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@antoniogm, Vanity Fair, @blmohr, @davidgura, @mikeisaac, @bpimedia, The Stranger, @profcarroll, @juancpedreira, @kelseymsutton and Contemptor
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