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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance and Jeffrey Goldberg on hiring and promoting women; Goldberg says print cover writers are almost exclusively white men — It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Meredith's Entertainment Weekly is going to a monthly print schedule and gets a new EIC, J.D. Heyman, replacing Henry Goldblatt; July 5 is last weekly edition — The frequency change takes effect in August. — Entertainment Weekly will no longer be a weekly magazine starting in August …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WarnerMedia abandons plan for a three-tiered streaming service, will likely package HBO, Cinemax, and the Warner Bros. library together for $16-$17/mo — New package is expected to include HBO, Cinemax and Warner Bros. content for barely more than HBO's current streaming service
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Hundreds of Vox Media workers stage a one-day walkout to pressure management to sign a union contract; an editor says SBNation won't cover the NBA finals Game 3 — - Employees aren't writing or editing stories on Thursday — ‘This was a hard decision,’ SBNation editor says on Twitter
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Craig Newmark gives $6M to Consumer Reports, the largest donation in the history of the 80+ year organization, as it expands its coverage of the tech industry — An entrepreneur who made a fortune thanks to his digital disruption of the newspaper industry has joined forces …
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@craignewmark, @dangillmor, @fastcompany, @scottnover, @mlsif, @janebsinger, @craigsilverman and Fast Company
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Cindy Vanegas-Gesaule, BuzzFeed News head of programming, adds oversight of film and TV projects to her role, replacing Lauren Dolgen, who left BuzzFeed in May — Cindy Vanegas-Gesaule is adding oversight of film and TV projects to her existing role as head of programming for BuzzFeed News.
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
YouTube suspends monetization of Steven Crowder's channel after continued review finds “pattern of egregious actions” that are against Partner Program policies — Right-wing performer gay-bashed a Vox reporter for years. They initially declined to do anything, then ‘demonetized’ him …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
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@fordfischer, YouTube Blog, American Press Institute, @kevinroose, CNN, The Hill, @ninadschick, @riotdoge, Axios, Deadline, Gizmodo and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
YouTube Blog:
YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place”
YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place”
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Major media outlets, including the Daily Beast and WaPo, fail to fact-check and wrongly report a story about Dutch teenager being euthanized, issue corrections — Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the Pope appeared to tweet about it.
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@anamariecox, @buzzfeedben, @buzzfeedben, @craigsilverman, @mathewi, @politicoeurope, @natemcdermott, @tomgara, Jezebel and New York Post
Matthew Kassel / Columbia Journalism Review:
Some journalists are returning to their hometowns to work, citing the benefits of meaningful work, strong emotional connections, and trust from sources — It's quite possible that Caitlin Dewey owes her career in journalism to The Buffalo News. She grew up in the suburban town of Wheatfield …
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@claremalone, @laurenweberhp, @jacobonpurpose, @carmenmforman, @tylerkingkade, @dabeard, @scbaird and @kytja
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions, strikes a multiyear deal with Spotify to produce exclusive podcasts for the platform — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are the latest to jump into the podcast game, under a pact with Spotify to produce a series …
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David Chrisinger / New York Times:
A look back at the reporting of Ernie Pyle and how the beaches of Normandy changed the way America's most famous war correspondent reported what he saw — Most of the men in the first wave never stood a chance. In the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, thousands of American soldiers crawled …
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Daily Hive:
CNN hires the Toronto Star's Daniel Dale as a reporter on the fact-checking beat in Washington DC — After 11 years, The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale is leaving his position as their Washington bureau chief. — The award-winning political reporter says he will be working with CNN …
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@cnnpr, @ddale8, @grantstern, @mathewi, @ddale8, @ddale8, @torontostar and @mehdirhasan
Peter Greste / The Guardian:
While the Australian laws behind the media raids include a “public interest” defense, the country should instead pass a law explicitly protecting press freedom — Parliament has passed a slew of national security laws that limit and even criminalise the fundamental work of the press
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Nieman Lab, Crikey, Sydney Morning Herald, @themurdochtimes, @vmp9, Boing Boing, Alliance for Journalists …, CNN and Samantha Dunn
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Del Harvey / Twitter:
Twitter simplifies the language for its rules and reorganizes them into three high-level categories: safety, privacy, and authenticity — Our rules exist to help keep everyone using Twitter safe and ensure they can participate freely in the public conversation.
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