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Trump accuses Fox News of “heavily promoting the Democrats” and urges his Twitter followers to “start looking for a new News Outlet” — President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Fox News, accusing the conservative network of “heavily promoting the Democrats” …
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Kinzen, which initially built a consumer app for curated news, is now helping publishers offer personalized news on their own platforms, newsletters, and sites — When Mark Little and Áine Kerr first began thinking about developing a news product, they started going where many people had gone before …
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Hulu launches its live TV guide on the web, Roku, and Apple TV, and says the Live Guide is coming to other platforms soon — Yesterday, Hulu began rolling out an updated version of its mobile app sporting the brand-new interface the company first unveiled at CES in January.
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Beto O'Rourke's staff removed a Breitbart writer from a campaign event, later saying site “walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech” — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's staff had a Breitbart News writer removed from an event in South Carolina on Tuesday.
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NYT's Amy Chozick to co-author and co-produce The Girls on the Bus for Netflix, a fictional show about female reporters on the campaign trail — ‘The Girls on the Bus’ will be inspired by a chapter from New York Times journalist Amy Chozick's book, with the author attached as a writer.
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As newspapers wrote off working class readers in the '60s, and with no labor coverage in network/cable news, it's become clear more labor reporters are needed — A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today


John Carreyrou has left WSJ after almost 20 years, citing the paper's ban on paid speaking engagements, in place to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest — The man who exposed Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes has left the paper he's called home for 20 years.
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A-list celebrities, from Will Smith to Zac Efron to Alexa Chung, have recently become YouTube vloggers, adopting the feel of authenticity for the new medium — Over the past 20 or so months, some of the biggest stars in the world have turned to something people do to get famous in the first place: vlogging.


Facebook tightens rules for political advertisers in the US, requiring further identity proof such as tax-ID number or Federal Election Commission registration — Facebook on Wednesday announced it would tighten some of its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election …
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Reuters director says the agency is planning a P2P network to help journalists collaborate, as it launches its productivity suite, Reuters Connect — There is a “higher need” for journalists to work together to create trusted news instead of spending “all our energy fighting each other,” a director at Reuters news agency has said.
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Federal judge rules in favor of Gizmodo Media Group in a $100M lawsuit brought by ex-Trump spokesman Jason Miller over a story about a child custody case — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Splinter, the site's managing editor, Katherine Krueger, and the site's parent company …
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YouTube Kids introduces a new content filtering tier for preschoolers, ages four and under, and will launch a web version “later this week” — When it first launched, YouTube Kids had a one size fits all approach for all kids. But since children are interested in different things …
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