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ProPublica:
Analysis: how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinformation in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
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@craignewman, @oliviasolon, @janebsinger, Beyond Search, @jason_kint, @lutherlowe, @craigsilverman, ProPublica, @profcarroll and @craigsilverman
Ben Smith / Semafor:
A look at a complaint against The China Project, alleging the US-based news company acts as a “foreign agent” and China influenced its coverage, which it denies — Shannon Van Sant's career neatly tracks the American media's romance and disillusion with China.
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@john_hudson, @limlouisa, @semaforben, The China Project, @aaronmcn, @changxche, @limlouisa and @aadilbrar
Scroll.in:
The Wire says the Delhi Police searched its office and the homes of four editors due to a complaint by BJP's Amit Malviya alleging cheating, forgery, and more — The searches were conducted in relation to a complaint filed by BJP leader Amit Malviya, founding editor of the website MK Venu told Scroll.in.
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The Indian Express:
The Wire files a complaint with the Delhi Police against its researcher Devesh Kumar a day after police charged its journalists for alleged forgery and more — The complaint has been filed against Devesh Kumar who is allegedly involved in the fabrication of documents and forgery in connection …
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Scroll.in, @zoeschiffer, @kevincollier and @film_girl
Daniel Rosney / BBC:
The BBC plans to cut 48 jobs in local radio, causing 39 networks in England to share programs from 2PM to 6AM, as the broadcaster prioritizes digital content — BBC local radio stations will have a significant number of programmes cut under new plans, the corporation has announced.
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The Guardian, The Guardian, Press Gazette, Deadline, @_peterspencer, @georgia_coan, @paulstainton, @ankaman616, @sonic_screwup, @gregscotttv, @gregscotttv, @knibbsey, @whenisbirths, @jamie4north, @georgeosborn, HoldtheFrontPage, @imcmillan, @nigelpauley, @immasonjordan, @jimwaterson, @psythor, @paulwiltshire, @petebarronmedia, @daveharrisoniom, @annaturley, @katie_cronin and @mo_bakshi
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith becomes a senior advisor to Emerson Collective, one of the top local news funding sources that has given $60M+ in grants since 2016 — Evan Smith, the CEO and co-founder of the Texas Tribune, will be a senior advisor to Emerson, which has emerged …
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@semaforben, @peterlattman, @pamelacolloff, @ralstonreports, @evanasmith, @jason_kint, @hodgman and @eramshaw
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Chartbeat: in 2022, traffic from Google News and other aggregators fell to ~14% of traffic referred by social, search, and links, down from 18% to 20% in 2020 — Three years ago, publisher analytics firm Chartbeat saw news aggregators becoming the fastest growing traffic referral source.
Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:
Bloomberg launches Audience Accelerator, a first-party ad platform built using a data lake with info about its 450,000 subscribers and 5M registered users — Bloomberg Media just turned off third-party ads on its site. But as it shuts the door to open-market programmatic, Bloomberg is opening a first-party data advertising platform.
Lynette Rice / Deadline:
Peacock partners with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from the Hallmark Channel, Movies & Mysteries, and Drama, its first such deal — Peacock has closed a pact with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama.
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The Streamable, Next TV, Variety, Ad Age, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, Media Play News, The Hollywood Reporter, TVLine, IndieWire and Advanced Television
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Amazon plans to launch a 12-hour daily lineup of sports talk shows, with seven shows available for free on Prime Video and its other audio and visual platforms — MORE FROM: — In its continued effort to become a full-time destination for sports, Amazon will have its own lineup …
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Awful Announcing, The Streamable and The Hollywood Reporter
Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill / The Guardian:
The UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hires Amber de Botton, the head of UK news at ITV News, as his director of communications — Journalist Amber de Botton takes special adviser role for new prime minister — Rishi Sunak has hired Amber de Botton as his director of communications …
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Chris Davis / WTVF-TV:
The Nashville Banner, which served the city for 122 years until 1998, plans to relaunch as a nonprofit news site with Scripps' local TV station as its partner — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In Demetria Kalodimos's office, a motto can be found all over: Real people, true stories.
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@henryrothenberg and MediaPost
CNBC:
General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership” — - General Motors is suspending its advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform.
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The Verge, New York Times, The Guardian, Protocol, Scroll.in, Vibe, Washington Post, Gizmodo, @tomcottonar, Quartz, @cliffschecter, @mayawiley, New York Post, @radleybalko, Variety, @markos, @jason_kint, @taylorlorenz, Vanity Fair, Gardner Goldsmith, The Hill, The Daily Wire, @timodc, Reclaim The Net, @newtonmark, @agatha__x, @kris_sacrebleu, Deadline, @tomcoates, @fpwellman, @tweetermeyer, @chiproytx, @mmasnick, @theepurity, @tomaxwell, CNN, The Liberty Daily, Wired, Insider and Ad Age, more at Techmeme »
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Eli Pariser / Wired:
Elon Musk's ad-dependent Twitter isn't the global town square democracies need; we need an overlapping ecosystem of smaller publicly owned digital social spaces
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, @caspiancey, @maustermuhle, @anncathrin87, The Daily Wire, MIT Technology Review, @elipariser, @nxthompson, @planetaryinc, @baekdal, @deeptidoshi, @chrisstoecker, @progressntwrk, @asbruckman, @esgarchitect, @josephmenn and @wearenew_public, more at Techmeme »
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Among tech companies, Twitter has been the biggest defender of online free speech, globally; fired head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde drove much of that work
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The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, Media Voices, @repcohen, The Daily Wire, @mmasnick, ProductCafé …, ScreenRant, @franifio, @jay_jaffe, Making It All Click, Reuters, @mmasnick, Stupidity, @jess_miers, @jess_miers, @photomatt, @reckless, @mollyjongfast, @wardcarroll, @kevincollier, @thelinuxexp, @chancery_daily, @karaswisher, @anildash, @kvox, @micsolana, @piersmorgan, @benshapiro, @mmasnick, @mmasnick, @mmasnick, @hblodget, @rahaeli, @robpegoraro, @evacide, @nicholasrfish, @gdickinson, @jasonrantz, @rob_sheridan, @micsolana, Inside a FinTech Mind, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Independent.ie, The Post Millennial and Amadeus Pagel, more at Techmeme »
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