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Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs escorted out of Trump campaign Iowa press event on Monday, after a Dec. campaign pledge to no longer credential Bloomberg reporters — President Trump's re-election campaign escorted a Bloomberg News reporter from an event in Iowa, following a pledge no longer …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ahead of today's caucuses in Iowa, there is ample indication that media is repeating all the framing errors that shaped coverage in 2016
Ahead of today's caucuses in Iowa, there is ample indication that media is repeating all the framing errors that shaped coverage in 2016
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Davey Alba / New York Times:
Alphabet's Jigsaw unveils Assembler, a free tool that identifies doctored photos; it is testing it with 12+ news and fact-checking orgs, like Rappler and AFP — The company, owned by Google's parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Dotdash acquires two more digital publishers, TreeHugger and Mother Nature Network, to create a sustainability vertical in an all-cash deal — Dotdash, the IAC-owned digital publishing company that grew from About.com, has acquired two new digital publishers, TreeHugger and Mother Nature Network …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sources: CNN anchors are being excluded from the annual presidential luncheon with TV network anchors, the first time a president has singled out one network — New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump's targeting of CNN is moving to yet another arena: The annual presidential lunch with television network anchors.
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David McCabe / New York Times:
Disney, MPAA, News Media Alliance are among those lobbying to limit Section 230, citing copyright concerns, threatening Google, FB, and the web as we know it — A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Downing Street Lobby briefings should be televised, which would free up journalists to pursue other stories since the briefings rarely provide genuine news — Yesterday's rare outbreak of solidarity among Lobby journalists was as laudable as Number 10's PR strategy appears to be petulant.
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Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Journalists from every major UK broadcaster and paper walk out after attempts to remove those from left-of-center publications from a Downing Street briefing
Journalists from every major UK broadcaster and paper walk out after attempts to remove those from left-of-center publications from a Downing Street briefing
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Richard Smirke / Billboard:
Sony Music partners with Somethin' Else, the UK's largest independent audio and podcast producer, as major labels increasingly invest in the podcast sector — The deal is the latest in a growing line of major label and digital platform investments in the podcasting sector.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — - Google broke out numbers for YouTube and Cloud for the first time Monday. — YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in 2019 …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sundar Pichai says YouTube Music and YouTube Premium together have more than 20M paying subscribers, and YouTube TV has more than 2M subscribers in the US
Sundar Pichai says YouTube Music and YouTube Premium together have more than 20M paying subscribers, and YouTube TV has more than 2M subscribers in the US
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Jess Brammar named editor-in-chief of HuffPost UK, replacing Jimmy Leach, who held the position for less than a year — Jess Brammar has been appointed editor-in-chief at Huffpost UK. — The former BBC Newsnight acting editor takes over from Jimmy Leach who has left the company after less …
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole from G/O Media for an undisclosed cash sum; ClickHole employees will become the majority owners of the site — Cards Against Humanity, the card game company, purchased Clickhole.com from its owners at G/O Media on Monday for an undisclosed amount …
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Meghna Rao / Splice:
The Ken, a one-story per weekday subscription news site in India, says it will unbundle its Southeast Asian offering from its Indian offering — They now have reporters across Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. — When the team at India's The Ken …
John Ourand / Sports Business Daily:
ESPN the Magazine will publish its first special issue on Friday since it stopped publication in September; it will be dedicated to Kobe Bryant — BREAKING NEWS in front of the paywall tonight: we have a report that ESPN will drop a special 96-page magazine on Friday dedicated to Kobe Bryant …