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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook warns publishers that Apple's upcoming privacy changes in iOS 14, which clamp down on ad tracking IDFA usage, will make Audience Network less effective — Facebook is warning advertisers that they can expect weaker ad performance from iPhone users once iOS 14 comes out next month …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Many RNC speakers, including Melania Trump, Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandman, and Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, targeted the media and complained of bias — Many of the 2020 Republican National Convention's speakers have gone after the media, blaming outlets for targeting Trump supporters …
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MediaPost, Variety, Mediaite, @marklittlenews, @sarafischer and @axios
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN protested to Republican officials after the Trump campaign gave Hannity exclusive access to key RNC sites
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to add AR content to Apple TV+ next year, as a form of bonus content akin to director commentaries, ahead of an AR headset in 2022 — - Company plans to add AR-based bonus content to original video — Apple seeks to make AR more mainstream ahead of headset launch
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Guardian takes legal action to shut down parody headline generator guardianmeme.com, alleging copyright infringement for using photos of its journalists — The publisher of The Guardian has taken legal action to shut down a parody headline generator which it claims has infringed its copyright …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media enabled Kellyanne Conway by not forcefully calling out Hatch Act violations, giving her tons of airtime, and offering kid-glove treatment for inside info — Among the many appalling scenes in the many tell-all books written from an inside-the-Trump-administration perspective …
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@sulliview, @kararbrown, @jayrosen_nyu, @mollyjongfast, @chrisgeidner, @jayrosen_nyu and Mediaite
Denise Petski / Deadline:
BuzzFeed signs a first-look deal with Universal TV, with the studio producing scripted content based on stories published by BuzzFeed — Buzzfeed is making an expanded push into television, signing a first-look deal with Universal TV, in which the studio will produce scripted content based …
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Variety, The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CBS News launches CBS Village, a multiplatform franchise for news division content about diverse groups like Black, Asian, LGBTQ, LatinX, women, and millennials — CBS News is launching CBS Village, an online destination for news division content about diverse groups, while it has made more additions …
Paul Karp / The Guardian:
Australian parliamentary inquiry says journalists should not be immune from “secrecy offences” but proposes new defenses for public interest journalism — Journalists should not be immune from secrecy offences but may gain new defences for public interest journalism …
Jason Cherkis / Columbia Journalism Review:
A longtime crime reporter on coming up short in his 10 years on the beat and why media needs to rethink its approach towards covering the police — It was May 2003. The photographer and I were in a grocery store parking lot in the better part of Washington, DC. We chain-smoked and waited for disaster to strike.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
A former TMZ employee has sued the site's parent companies, Warner Bros. Entertainment and EHM Productions, claiming gender discrimination and retaliation — “I want the culture to change. I don't want anyone to leave that office and cry and feel like they're worthless," Bernadette Zilio told BuzzFeed News.
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Washington Post:
The collapse of the sale of AMI's Enquirer to the CEO of Hudson News, announced in spring 2019, raises questions of whether the tabloid became too hot to handle — In the spring of 2019, the National Enquirer appeared once again to be riding out another storm in its long, tumultuous history.
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Ethan Zuckerman / Center for Civic Media:
MIT's Center for Civic Media will close at the end of August after 13 years, with alumni continuing its work elsewhere — At the end of August 2020, the Center for Civic Media at MIT will close down. Established in 2007 as the Center for Future Civic Media, the Center …
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