Mediagazer: Google says it will remove Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party or make a voting claim, says it improved breaking news systems (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Google says it will remove Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party or make a voting claim, says it improved breaking news systems — Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google says it's taken a number of steps to improve the quality of information …

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Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer in August 2019, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site — He's got an exclusive, multiyear deal — Ninja's back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site.

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Al Tompkins / Poynter:

RTDNA survey: Black staff at local news stations grew from 12% in 2019 to 13.3% in 2020, while Latinos fell to 10.9%; 17.4% of stations had POC news directors — A Radio and Television Digital News Association survey found the percentage of people of color in the TV news workforce increased by .7 points in 2020

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Megyn Kelly to launch production company Devil May Care Media, which will back podcasts and other shows on current events, starting with her own podcast — Megyn Kelly isn't on a mainstream news outlet at present, but that isn't going to keep her from broadcasting.

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

India's Times Internet reports 67B page views, up from 47B last year, says it has 557M MAUs and 111M+ DAUs, with MX Player at 200M+ MAUs and Gaana at 185M MAUs — Times Internet said on Thursday it reaches more than 557 million active users in India each month and over 111 million users …

Vox Media:

Verge EIC Nilay Patel will host a new podcast, Decoder with Nilay Patel, a relaunch this fall of Kara Swisher's interview show, Recode Decode — The new podcast, a relaunch of Kara Swisher's award-winning interview show, Recode Decode, debuts this fall. Swisher will continue to host Vox Media's hit show Pivot with Scott Galloway.

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