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Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
Under fire for raid on Bryan Carmody's home, SF's Police Chief claims Carmody took part in a criminal conspiracy to steal an internal police report — Under fire for a raid on the home and office of a freelance journalist who refused to identify a confidential source, San Francisco Police …
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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
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@bryanccarmody, New York Times, New York Times, @davidgreene, @alextarquinio, Dan Noyes, @apwestregion, @yashar, @yashar, @dannoyes, @dannoyes, @yashar, @boutrousted, @yashar, SPJ News, CNN and @georgegascon
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Source says Medium has 200K-400K paying subscribers, which at $50 per user amounts to a minimum of $10M per year from subscriptions alone — For Medium CEO Ev Williams, building a profitable business isn't an immediate concern. — “We're focused on building revenue and building a subscription business …
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@rafat, @alex, @annehelen, @trengriffin, @alexeheath, @flyosity and @jragazzo, Thanks:@jonsteinberg
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Ev Williams says Fox News is more powerful and destructive than Twitter and the posting of false claims is part of the tradeoff of an open platform like Medium — Toronto (CNN Business)President Donald Trump is a “master” of Twitter, according to the company's co-founder Ev Williams.
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@ev, @pkafka, @ev, @ev, @ev, @ev, @ev, @karenmcgrane, @haroldpollack, @donie, @cnn and Boing Boing
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Avaaz study finds extensive far-right disinformation networks on Facebook ahead of EU elections; Facebook says it removed 77 Pages and 230 accounts in response — A multi-month hunt for political disinformation spreading on Facebook in Europe suggests there are concerted efforts to use …
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Wired and @mikenelson, more at Techmeme »
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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
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Nieman Lab, @lmneudert, @patbagley, @sarapweber, The Computational …, @thegrugq, @polbots, @peterjukes, @peterjukes, @benimmo, @fabiochiusi and CNBC
Max Willens / Digiday:
The Guardian launches an investigative series, Toxic America, and seeks $150K in donations to increase its coverage of toxic chemicals in 2019 — The Guardian has discovered that American readers are willing donors, and the news publisher hopes that a bigger focus on investigations …
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The Guardian and @niemanlab
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Roku launches tool that uses data from its 29M users to show advertisers how many more people they could reach by shifting budgets from linear to OTT TV — The over-the-top streamer is releasing a new measurement tool meant to entice ad budgets away from traditional TV
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TechCrunch, Multichannel News, MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable and AdExchanger
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Brexit Party says ban on Channel 4 reporters has been lifted; Channel 4 News denies claims reporters “repeatedly lied” to gain access to a secure area at rally — The Brexit Party has lifted its ban on Channel 4 News after a meeting between the broadcaster and the party's chairman this morning.
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@marinahyde, Poynter, @bendepear, Channel 4 News, @daaronovitch, @bendepear, @andywigmore, @davidlammy, @brexitparty_uk, indy100, paulwiltshireblog and Press Gazette
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges faced by fact-checkers at Vishvas News, Facebook's largest Indian-language fact-checking contractor, as India's election nears its end — Join us on WhatsApp for special coverage of India's election. Sign up here. — The world's largest election has become something …
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@saritharai, @sherryaske, American Press Institute, @mathewi and @pelstrom
The Irish Times:
The Times Ireland announces it will cease publication of its print edition and cut staff from 20 to 3 for continued work on digital products — Irish print edition of UK newspaper to cease publication with small number to continue working on digital product
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Press Gazette, @juneshannon, RTÉ, @martindoyleit, @fdelond, @trickstersworld, @peterodwyer1 and @theharrymcc
James McAuley / Washington Post:
Prominent French journalist summoned by police for reporting on corruption in Macron's government, triggering further concerns about press freedoms in France — PARIS — French police summoned a senior correspondent from France's Le Monde newspaper for questioning following a series …
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@jameskmcauley and Yahoo News
Michael Novinson / CRN:
Google says it's experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results; users searching for fresh news from sites including NYT or WSJ get no results — The bug has prevented new content from being indexed in Google search results, and is most obvious when using the ‘past hour’ search filter.
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SlashGear, @googlewmc, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable, more at Techmeme »
Andrew R. Chow / TIME:
Georgia hosted 455 film and TV productions in 2018, but some workers fear a loss of jobs after some directors pull projects to protest an anti-abortion bill — This week, the director Reed Morano was supposed to fly to Georgia to scout locations for a new show for Amazon Studios called The Power.
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Hollywood Reporter, Rewire.News, @alexalisitza, IndieWire, @ericbalfour, /Film, The Wrap, Page Six, The A.V. Club, Los Angeles Times, Variety and The Week
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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The Next Web, TechCrunch, SlashGear, CBS News, National Review, The Verge, The Hill, New York Times, Gizmodo, Ad Age and FiveThirtyEight
New Jersey Herald:
The New Jersey Herald, which has operated in North Jersey since 1829, is being sold to GateHouse Media — NEWTON - The New Jersey Herald, in operation since 1829, is being sold to GateHouse Media. — In announcing the pending sale to Herald staff Thursday morning, Ralph Oakley …
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@nikkiwentling, @mattdpearce, @cjjanovy and @joelmmathis
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