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Katherine Krueger / Splinter:
Twitter temporarily suspended some accounts that simply linked to a Splinter post that shared a phone number for White House adviser Stephen Miller — This morning, Splinter published the personal cell phone number of White House adviser Stephen Miller, an official so monstrous …
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Jack Morse / Mashable:
Facebook blocks news about policy at a detention center for immigrant children from being boosted with an ad buy, under the cover of “political ads” policy — Having missed the boat completely on fake news, Facebook appears to now be dropping the hammer on the real stuff.
Nilagia McCoy / Shorenstein Center:
Breakdown of $1.8B in media-related grants from 2010-2015: 44% to public media, 5% to magazines, 12% to national nonprofits, 5% to local/state nonprofits — Co-published by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University's School of Journalism.
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The Engaged Journalism Lab, @facttank, Inside Philanthropy and @evanasmith
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram debuts IGTV, a hub for high-profile creators, and says it will begin letting users upload videos up to an hour long, up from previous one minute limit — Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company announced …
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Ad Age, Instagram, The Drum, TechCrunch, Digiday, MediaNama, @instagram, Fortune, Hootsuite Social Media …, The Next Web, @theperezhilton, Gizmodo, MediaPost, The Verge, Fast Company, @supersaf, @jonathan_gantt, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, SlashGear, Bloomberg, @backlon, @kantrowitz, @shiraovide and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Univision issues statement calling on Democrats and Republicans to end practice of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border — Univision strongly criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating the families of undocumented migrants at the U.S. border.
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CBS News, New York Times, Associated Press and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: prosecutors have subpoenaed National Enquirer publisher American Media for records of its 2016 payment to Karen McDougal as part of Michael Cohen probe — Prosecutors eye whether company coordinated with ex-Trump lawyer on payment to bury affair allegation
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The Guardian, CNBC, @mlcalderone, @marlownyc, The Wrap, @rebeccaballhaus, KTLA, @tedlieu and Mediaite
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
ABC News apologizes after showing a chyron for about five seconds falsely stating Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to manslaughter — ABC News apologized on Monday for accidentally reporting that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to five charges of manslaughter.
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@realdonaldtrump, Fox News, @abcnewspr, Variety, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable, @cotatninetz, Mediaite, @brianstelter and iMediaEthics
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: AT&T plans to acquire Otter Media, the streaming video company it co-owns with The Chernin Group, in a deal expected to close this summer — Fresh off its Time Warner acquisition, AT&T has another content deal in the works. — AT&T just spent $85 billion on a media company.
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CNBC, The Wrap, Multichannel News and FierceCable
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook begins letting Group admins test a feature that charges members $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to exclusive sub-groups — Facebook is starting to let Group admins charge $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to special sub-Groups full of exclusive posts.
Lindsay Weinberg / Hollywood Reporter:25 minutes ago
Indoor fitness brand SoulCycle hires Vox Media's Angela Bowers, Glamour's Laurel Pinson, and Mashable's Gregory Gittrich to launch a media division — The indoor fitness brand has tapped talent from Vox Media, Glamour and Mashable to lead the strategy. — Attention athletic gurus …
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@weinberglindsay, @amtomchak, @vivian and Fast Company
Kevin Loker / Trust, Media and Democracy:
Media Insight Project study: about a third of people in US personally know a journalist or have been interviewed; 80% of those interviewed say coverage was fair — The American Press Institute released a new study on the relationship between the public and the press.
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American Press Institute, @nwatzman and @mayerjoy
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Telegraph, Guardian, and News UK announce a digital ad sales venture, The Ozone Project, to launch in fall, giving direct access to over 39.4M users — Three leading UK national news publishers have combined forces to create a jointly-owned advertising platform which they hope will build a …
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GroupM, campaignlive.co.uk, The Drum, The Guardian and Digiday
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
T-Mobile says its deal with Sprint will create a “truly competitive” national pay TV service with lower programming rates, and more affordable video services — Says Sprint merger will create scale that results in lower programming rates, more affordable video services
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Adweek
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Comcast's footprint in the broadband market would be a red flag to regulators looking at 21st Century Fox deal — Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger didn't mince words Wednesday morning as he sized up his company's chances of securing regulatory approval for the acquisition …
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TechCrunch, The Ringer, Vanity Fair and CNBC
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