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ESPN:
Bob Ley, ESPN's longest-tenured anchor, is retiring at the end of the month after 40 years at the company — Bob Ley, after a 40-year career at ESPN, announced his retirement from the network Wednesday. — Ley, who had taken a leave of absence in October, said in a statement that he will be retiring at the end of this month.
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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
How editors weighed competing values in deciding to post the photo of drowning victims Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria at the Rio Grande — Editor's note: You can see the photo this column references by scrolling all the way to the end of this story.
Christine Fisher / Engadget:
YouTube gives users a “don't recommend channel” option and a way to pick topics of interest for videos showing in Up Next or homepage, now on iOS and Android — No matter how advanced algorithms get, none will understand your YouTube viewing preferences better than you.
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YouTube Blog, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Verge and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Reddit “quarantines” r/The_Donald, which has 750K+ subs, over threats made against cops and public figures; quarantines show a content warning upon visiting sub — Users allegedly threatened law enforcement ordered to find Republican senators in Oregon who went on the lam to duck voting for climate-change bill.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Aggregation app SmartNews, which favors discovery over personalization and has 15M users, boosts traffic for pubs, but monetizing that traffic remains unproven — “If the publisher ecosystem is healthy, then SmartNews is healthy. That's going to be an important thrust going forward."
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@richjaro, @brizzyc and @niemanlab
Wall Street Journal:
FCC probes whether Sinclair “engaged in misrepresentation” as it sought to buy Tribune Media; probe involves station spinoff plans in Chicago, Dallas, Houston — Local TV station operator could be facing significant fines or even loss of broadcast licenses
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Low-cost live TV streaming service Philo launches official apps for Android and Amazon's Fire tablets — Despite a slight price increase in April, Philo's live TV streaming service is still one of the more affordable options on the market because of its strategic decision to not stream sports.
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The Streamable, Multichannel News, MediaPost and FierceVideo
Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
During her time as Republican press secretary in Arizona, Stephanie Grisham was repeatedly accused of trying to rescind press credentials for critical coverage — On April 5, 2016, Hank Stephenson checked his email and saw that he had a new message from Stephanie Grisham.
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Politico, @theferocity, @sephspeaks, @amy_siskind, @milbank, @feliciasonmez, @wesleylowery, @anthony, The Intercept, Columbia Journalism Review, Newser and @flotus
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
A look at Facebook's and Twitter's plans to combat disinformation ahead of the Democratic presidential debates on Wednesday and Thursday — Ctrl + N — Silicon Valley will face its first big test of its readiness to fight disinformation in the 2020 campaign when the Democratic presidential debates kick off tonight.
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@mollyjongfast
Alexandria Villaseñor / Columbia Journalism Review:
Climate activist who protested NYT says media fails daily by practicing climate silence or by propagating misinformation; strike planned for Fox News HQ Friday — This past Saturday, I was among hundreds of activists with the group Extinction Rebellion NYC who protested outside The New York Times …
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The Guardian and Media Matters for America
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
The opening of a Chinese war movie, The Eight Hundred, was abruptly canceled amid a growing crackdown on works insufficiently in tune with Xi Jinping's ideology — BEIJING — It is not at all that rare for censors to wreak havoc on films here in China — cutting, say, several scenes from …
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Bloomberg, @nytimesworld, @nathanattrill, @jc_mittelstadt, The Verge and The Wrap
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
How The New York Times' Metro department got away from print-first habits and dutiful incremental coverage to focus on consequential local news — When high-ranking editor Cliff Levy took over The New York Times' Metro department just under a year ago, it was clear a shakeup was coming.
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American Press Institute, @laura_nelson and @nbj914
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