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Max Read / New York Magazine:
Q&A with Jonah Peretti on BuzzFeed in the 2010s: how microtargeting enables polarization, turning points like the Boston Marathon and Steele, unionization, more — As the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president …
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Nieman Lab, @jyarow, @megclark_txt, @joshuagreen, @jessbrammar, @sethdmichaels, @laurenstarke, @jmcunning, @rob_flaherty, @max_read, @jimwaterson, @nymag, @cdirusso, @ryanlcooper, @eugene_scott, @grahamstarr, @nymag, @emilyrpeck and @owillis
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
YouGov survey of five European countries finds Brits are most concerned about fake news and 63% think they're frequently exposed to fake news vs. 28% of Germans — Brits are more worried than their European neighbours about “fake news”, but are the least likely to pay for verified journalism, according to a new Yougov poll.
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@daveclark_afp and @paulrapacioli
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
UK's Press Gazette calls on Electoral Commission to ban the use of newspaper mastheads and copycat formats in election pamphlets, a common practice — Political parties must stop imitating newspapers in their election campaign material to avoid deceiving voters and damaging the reputations of trusted local news titles.
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Press Gazette and Sidmouth Herald News
Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:
Mozilla says it will block the IAB's DigiTrust universal ID, after updating its policies to reject products that let other services track users — Mozilla intends to block the DigiTrust consortium from tracking users in its Firefox browser, a blow for the IAB-led effort to create …
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@jason_kint, @jarroddicker, @wolfiechristl and @larakiara
Jack Shafer / Politico:
A subscriber strike for Alden Global Capital newspapers may be in order, to nudge Alden to sell its papers to owners who covet both good journalism and profits — It's not a popular thing to say, but journalism may be approaching the point where dedicated news consumers might take a hard look …
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: theSkimm is profitable and projects $30M in revenue this year as it looks for an investor or buyer amid slowing subscriber growth — - Buzzy media darling TheSkimm has been looking for an investor or buyer to accelerate its growth, people familiar with the talks told Business Insider.
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@ashkan, @niemanlab and @rafat
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News guest Michael Blake asked why Tucker Carlson was still on Fox, highlighting how Carlson and others made Fox a political actor, damaging its credibility — Fox News host Tucker Carlson is a propagandist, though a clever and savvy one. And on his program Monday night …
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Mother Jones, @nikkimcr, @jeremymbarr and The Week
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
Disney+ reinstates the Continue Watching section, having re-added Resume, Restart, and Add to Watchlist, features it removed at launch due to technical issues — When Disney+ launched, it faced several technical problems, with customers taking to social media to share that they weren't able to login to their accounts.
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Variety, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CNET, ScreenRant and Engadget
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Former executive sues CBS, alleging age and race discrimination; suit says minorities are relegated to sitting in back rows and sometimes excluded from meetings — Ghen Maynard, who developed such shows as ‘Survivor’ and ‘Amazing Race,’ alleges CBS mistreats minorities.
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The Daily Beast and Page Six
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
SCOTUS declines to intervene in defamation suit brought against the National Review, though Alito dissents: it goes “to the very heart of” freedom of the press — A climate scientist may pursue his defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine and a libertarian Washington …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Reuters, @kimberlyrobinsn, @richlowry, CNN and National Review
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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
SCOTUS declines to review 4-3 ruling from Maryland court that refused a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose case gained widespread attention from the Serial podcast
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The Week, Baltimore Sun, @bobbyallyn, New York Post, Vox, CNN, CNBC, VICE, The Independent, WTVQ-TV and Boing Boing
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Genvid Technologies raises $27M Series B for its interactive streaming platform, which helps users monetize livestreams via sponsorships and in-stream purchases — Genvid Technologies has raised $27 million in funding for its interactive streaming engine. Galaxy Interactive …
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PR Newswire, @novogratz and @ballmatthew, more at Techmeme »
Tom Hals / Reuters:
Judge orders CBS to turn over documents regarding its Viacom merger to a shareholder who's looking into whether the deal unfairly benefits Shari Redstone — (Reuters) - A Delaware judge on Monday ordered broadcaster CBS Corp to turn over records regarding its plan to reunite with Viacom Inc …
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