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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Reuters Digital News Report: ad blocking growth has stalled, digital assistants are outstripping watches, 18% of 18-24yo people in US pay for online news, more — The Reuters Institute's annual report on digital news contains some surprises. — The United States recently elected an unusual president.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
A civil case from Murray Energy in a New York appeals court is testing whether the state's shield law protects small, subscriber-based news organizations — In 1970, when Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller signed legislation protecting New York journalists from being forced to reveal their anonymous sources …
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Boing Boing, @nytmetro, @aclaudecase, @johnastoehr, @marlownyc, @noahshachtman, Talking Biz News and Associated Press
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republican coal baron Robert Murray is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight — A Republican coal baron is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight.
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Sources: conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt will host a live half-hour show on MSNBC, airing Saturdays at 8am and beginning this week — MSNBC is expanding weekend news with live programming until 9 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday nights, TVNewser has learned. — As part of the expansion …
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Emily Peck / HuffPost:
An internal email from 6 female WSJ reporters reveals growing frustration with how the paper's leadership has addressed the gender pay gap and racial diversity — An internal email obtained by HuffPost reveals growing unrest. — The Wall Street Journal's staff is about as diverse …
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@jdelreal, @emilyrpeck and @huffpostmedia
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO — As Spotify inches its way to a public listing, the streaming music company — which now has 140 million users — has made some significant changes to its board of directors.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Knight Prototype Fund awards $1M to projects aimed at fighting misinformation, including a mobile game that tracks falsehoods and a media literacy program — A mobile game that tracks falsehoods, a tool that busts lie-spewing internet bots and projects aimed at increasing the reach …
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Nieman Lab, @azi, @madalinacrc, @davisshaver and @erika_check
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Tesla is talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service that would be bundled with its cars — Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others? Good question. — Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file …
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TechCrunch, Electrek, Business Insider and Seeking Alpha
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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge eyes Atlanta's Cox Communications as acquisition target, but Cox has long said it's not interested in a sale — The upcoming season for cable TV could see yet another merger. — Charter Communications — the nationwide cable giant whose …
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TVWeek.com and Consumerist
Jessica Dye / Financial Times:
Barnes & Noble beats estimates with Q4 sales of $821M, down 6.3% YoY, narrows its net loss to $13.4M, and is testing new store formats; stock up 7%+ — Read next … Despite the rising dominance of online retailer Amazon, Barnes & Noble isn't ready to leave the traditional bookstore for dead.
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Publishers Weekly, GeekWire and Investors
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump has left the WH communications director job open since mid-May, when Michael Dubke resigned, suggesting he wants the job for himself to control messaging — He wants to be communications director. — Trump doesn't really want to be president. If he did, he'd nominate candidates …
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@timothynoah1, @nickgillespie, @jackshafer, @dcakraemer and @lindseyadler
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Yahoo's News Digest app, which delivered news updates twice daily, to shut down June 30 — Under former CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo failed to build anything truly exciting over the past five years - except for a single truly notable app, Yahoo News Digest. Now, under the reign of its new owner Verizon …
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