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9:10 AM ET, July 10, 2017

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
News Media Alliance, with members including NYT, WaPo, and News Corp, seeks antitrust exemption from Congress to negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook  —  Google and Facebook continue to gobble up the digital advertising market, siphoning away revenue that once paid for the quality journalism …
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Michael Kinsley / Slate:
Journalism's ethics police needlessly worry about expensive New York Times travel packages
Discussion: Washington Post
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Source: The NYT is undecided on whether to participate in Facebook's Instant Articles subscriptions, with the paper seeing no “great upside” to being involved  —  Facebook is moving ahead on plans to let people subscribe to publications through Instant Articles.
Adam K. Raymond / Vulture:
How spammers, ripoff artists, and even superstars juice their numbers on Spotify with covers, tricky song titles, silent tracks, and large albums  —  A few weeks after the release of Kendrick Lamar's “Humble,” the hard-charging lead single on his fourth album Damn., the song landed at No. 1 on Billboard's streaming chart.
Joshua Green / New York Magazine:
How Bannon became Trump's key henchman: arranging for Ann Coulter to pen a policy paper and weaponizing Breitbart against Megyn Kelly, before he joined campaign  —  Why does Trump double-down every time it seems like he should retreat?  Because Steve Bannon is back in his boss's good graces.
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
USC study suggests there may be a black market of bots used to spread misinformation across Twitter during elections  —  As if Twitter's reputation hasn't been battered enough, a new study sheds light on how the social media platform can be hijacked by bots to spread political disinformation during election campaigns.
Discussion: @manjusrii and @moorehn
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Q&A with Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, two of Politico Playbook's authors, on their forthcoming book, expansion of the Playbook franchise, more  —  Inside the transfer of power at Playbook, the most influential newsletter in politics.  —  It's been a year since Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman …
The Guardian:
The BBC is to propose cutting employee pay perks, including paid overtime and certain travel expenses, as it attempts to cut £80M from its news budget  —  Proposals include abolishing unpredictable hours allowance and cutting overtime as corporation prepares to reveal top salaries
Discussion: @hirider750 and @sarahschijen
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Podcast database and discovery site Podchaser focuses on episodes rather than entire shows, with user-generated tagging and episode-level reviews  —  “One of our big advantages is we're trying to build this bottom-up, feature-wise, and talking to a hundred different podcasts and tons of listeners and asking exactly what they want."
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Mark Aldam, president of Hearst Newspaper Group, which now seeks acquisitions and is focusing on local news, marketing, and events  —  Because it's privately held, Hearst isn't as big a part of industry conversations around the future of newspapers as its publicly traded peers.
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
WGAW 2017 report: total number of writers and total salaries down YoY; TV writers earnings down 1.7% YoY to $860.9M, film writers earnings down 6.45% to $359.8M  —  The WGA West has unveiled its annual report, which shows the total number of member writers working in the industry fell compared with a year ago as did total salaries.
 
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Catherine V. Moore / Columbia Journalism Review:
As an antidote to parachute journalism, Appalachian news outlets like 100 Days tell their region's story from the inside out
Discussion: The Root
Gwyneth Doland / Columbia Journalism Review:
Alternative weeklies are trying to stay afloat by launching their own nonprofits and partnering with advocacy groups that have a direct interest in coverage
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
TV networks misspell show names to trick Nielsen's automated rating system into ignoring broadcasts on nights with few viewers
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Circa, once a news app that broke stories into small bites, is reinvented as Sinclair's site aimed at millennials, with some staff close to Fox's Hannity
Discussion: bookforum.com
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Economist is using its subscription and registration data to sell targeted ad campaigns, on-and-off Economist properties