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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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@fastcompany, @dangillmor, @scottnover, @craigsilverman, @mlsif, Fast Company and @janebsinger
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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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” — Over the past few years, we've been investing in the policies, resources and products needed to live up to our responsibility …
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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
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YouTube Blog, @fordfischer, TechCrunch, Deadline, @kevinroose, CNN, Axios, Gizmodo, Business Insider, @riotdoge, Variety, @ninadschick, The Week, @oliverdarcy, @oneunderscore__, @kevinwglass, @the_moviebob, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @inafried, @tim_stevens, @caseynewton, @reckless, @tbskyen, @caseynewton, @oliverdarcy, The Mary Sue and The A.V. Club, more at Techmeme »
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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Politico, @tomgara, Jezebel and New York Post
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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CNN, The Wrap, Fast Company, Deadline, @ow, The Week, Engadget, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
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, Alliance for Journalists …, @themurdochtimes and @vmp9
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CNN:
Two police raids in two days on Australia's national broadcaster and the home of a prominent journalist raise concerns about press freedom in Australia
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Press Gazette, @thelyonsden, @theprojecttv, TVNewser, BBC, Al Jazeera, @julieposetti, @trevortimm, @macloo and Reason
ABC:
Federal police raid the Sydney headquarters of Australia's ABC News in relation to claims of publishing classified material in a 2017 series, The Afghan Files
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The Guardian, @thelyonsden, Common Dreams, @jstorycarter, @breakfastnews, CNN, ZDNet, @thelyonsden, Rose Jackson, @yassmin_a, @brianstelter, @thelyonsden, @alex_j_bellamy, @lissakjohnson, Washington Post, @thelyonsden, @ggreenwald, @kaitlancollins, @thelyonsden, @dylanwelch, @dylanwelch, @senator_patrick, @raf_epstein, @thelyonsden, @thelyonsden, @brianstelter, @nitv, @jopuccini, @lizzie_oshea, @timjayliffe, @theacij and @williamsjon
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, Washington Post, @ddale8, @grantstern, @mathewi, @torontostar, @mehdirhasan, @robyndoolittle, @patterballs, @susandelacourt, @bruce_arthur, @sdkstl, @ddale8, @ddale8, @ddale8, @andrewfeinberg, @davidfolkenflik, @meredithshiner and @raju
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
As companies like Charter and Comcast shift focus to lucrative broadband services, they are pulling back on discounts used for years to retain TV subscribers — - Charter, Comcast shares rise despite surge in cord cutters — Profits grow as providers show low-profit customers the door
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Awful Announcing
Dan Kennedy / wgbh.org:
As GateHouse Media lays off hundreds, considers a merger with Gannett, and consolidates papers, the company seems desperate to reach economies of scale — In his book “The Inevitable,” the technology journalist Kevin Kelly writes, “The future happens very slowly and then all at once.”
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge issues tentative ruling, sides with Fox in its suit against Netflix alleging it induced Fox executives to breach their contracts to work for Netflix — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge rejects Netflix's view that Fox's employment contracts are tainted with illegality.
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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The Wrap, Mediaite, @josheidelson, @iwwfju, @thesarahkelly, @samleecole and @rachelysanders
Laure Siegel / Club de Mediapart:
Colleagues of Arnaud Dubus, a journalist who died by suicide, cite the working conditions of freelance foreign correspondents among the reasons for his death — A statement co-written by colleagues of Arnaud Dubus from the Thai branch of the “Union de la presse francophone”.
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@reaproy, @ejbeals, @simonallison, @ejbeals, @ejbeals, @leloveluck, @jaomahony, @ejbeals, @carienduplessis and @raniaab
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