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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 …
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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, @katiedrumm and @niketa
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, @fabiochiusi, @peterjukes, @thegrugq, @benimmo and CNBC
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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Digiday, The Verge, Variety, @lucas_shaw, Gizmodo, Mashable, RAIN News, The Next Web, @venkatananth, @singareddynm, @luluyilun, Engadget, Music Business Worldwide, TechCrunch, Fast Company and Digiday
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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@will_bunch, @ngerik and @morganatopb
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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 …
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Axios, Talking Biz News and @ahmed
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
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
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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CNN, @bryanccarmody, @davidgreene, CNN, SPJ News, @yashar, @apwestregion, @alextarquinio, @dannoyes, @dannoyes, @yashar, @boutrousted, @yashar and @yashar
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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, indy100 and Channel 4 News
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, more at Techmeme »
The Guardian:
After backlash, Google to require abortion services advertisers in the US, UK, and Ireland to declare in their ads whether or not they provide abortions — Announcement comes after Guardian revealed Google gave $150,000 in free ads to opaque anti-abortion group
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CBS News, National Review, SlashGear, FiveThirtyEight, Gizmodo, Ad Age, The Verge, New York Times and The Hill, more at Techmeme »
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