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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube bans kids from live-streaming video unless accompanied by an adult following NYT report about YouTube's recommendation algorithm for posted videos — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — YouTube is taking additional steps to restrict the possibility that children …
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New York Times:
Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Facebook says its tools allowing paywall deployment through Instant Articles are now widely available, tests News Funding for converting paying subs inside FB — Facebook is doing more to help publishers big and small pursue subscriptions, both on and off its platform.
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Nieman Lab, Adweek and Facebook Journalism Project
Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:
Spotify begins a small scale test of curated podcast playlists to enhance podcast discoverability — This came in overnight. Fresh off its run of podcast company acquisitions, Spotify is now taking a crack at the problem that's perhaps most groaned about in the community: discoverability.
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Nieman Lab, The Verge, @caseynewton and Engadget
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Internal email: Vice Media EIC Jonathan Smith and managing editor Rachel Schallom have been let go after Vice's consolidation of several brands under Vice.com — There was a shake-up in the digital division of Vice Media on Tuesday. — Jonathan Smith, a Vice veteran who had been the editor …
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The Wrap
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Daily Beast article exposing the man allegedly behind fake Pelosi video sparks debate over whether media should ID private individuals spreading misinformation — A modified video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that started circulating recently—with the vocal track slowed down to make her appear drunk …
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@mantzarlis, @bostonjoan, @glennf, @mathewi, @standbyme2018, National Review and Techdirt
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Reuters:
Sources: Google's ad market dominance and its effect on ad tech firms and publishers is one of the areas of the DOJ's possible antitrust investigation — SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ad tech firms and publishers have had to stay in the good graces of Google or risk insolvency.
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Steve McClellan / MediaPost:
GroupM ad spending forecast: 5.8% growth in 2019 and 4.8% in 2020, excluding political ads; growth to be 8.2% for 2020 with ~$10B in political spending included — GroupM issued a revised ad-spending forecast today for the U.S. predicting underlying growth (which excludes political advertising) of 5.8% for 2019.
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Wall Street Journal, Broadcasting & Cable, @alexbruell, GroupM, @gabrielsnyder and @bykowicz
James Griffiths / CNN:
In China, June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is nicknamed “internet maintenance day” as websites go dark rather than risk publishing — Hong Kong (CNN)As commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre take place worldwide Tuesday …
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@cnn, @keithboykin, @jgriffiths, Natasha Chen CNN and @hadas_gold
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Two reporters laid off from BuzzFeed and HuffPost form an advocacy group, the Save Journalism Project, to raise awareness about big tech's damage to journalism — Two prominent reporters who were recently laid off from digital media outlets are forming a new advocacy group to raise awareness …
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@jeremymbarr, @mmasnick, @rosiegray, @dcbigjohn, @rosiegray, @rosiegray and @lebassett
Megan Graham / CNBC:
Instagram says it will now let advertisers promote creators' organic branded content posts as feed ads, extending the reach of influencers — KEY POINTS — Instagram is rolling out a change that will let advertisers promote posts from “influencers,” or users who brands work with to promote their services or products.
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Instagram for Business, Adweek, @rileycnbc, Mashable and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Inside The Salt Lake Tribune's plan for securing 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, which it officially applied for last week as an education organization — The IRS is complicated. So is running a 148-year-old newspaper in 2019. — Three weeks and one New York Times profile after announcing …
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@newsbyschmidt, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Paul Karp / The Guardian:
Australian federal police raided the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst over her reporting on a leaked plan to expand government spying — AFP officers execute search warrant over 2018 report about new powers for intelligence agencies to spy on Australians
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
News Corp Australia plans to cut 55 journalists across the country who lack digital skills — Staff told ‘big cuts’ will include 55 editorial posts as executive chairman says newsrooms need ‘new skills’ — News Corp staff will be hit by a widespread round of targeted redundancies, including 55 journalists, within days.
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@fexi, @kamahlaje, @hornery, AdNews, Sydney Morning Herald, @antmandan, SBS News, Australian Financial Review and Mumbrella
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Co-author of NYT Biden-Ukraine story hired as Ukraine president's spokesperson; NYT defends article, says it didn't know of her application for the job — New York (CNN Business)The New York Times reported last month that Joe Biden was facing conflict of interest questions for his role …
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