Mediagazer: How the Financial Times is using its 200+ annual events in 44 countries to boost subscriptions and sponsorships, increase revenue, make news (Ian Burrell/The Drum)

8:30 AM ET, September 10, 2017

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Spotify's bundle with Hulu highlights its earlier weakness in video and the potential for bigger TV brands to leverage Spotify's subscriber base — When Spotify and Hulu announced a joint effort this week to sell their streaming services at a combined discount rate to select markets …

Ian Burrell / The Drum:

How the Financial Times is using its 200+ annual events in 44 countries to boost subscriptions and sponsorships, increase revenue, make news — The number of live events being staged across the world by the Financial Times is quite staggering. — Today it is hosting a renewable energy summit …

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Ad-buying firms, like Publicis and Omnicom, are using an auditing service from analytics firm OpenSlate to make sure ads appear alongside safe YouTube content — Top ad-buying firms sign on for auditing services to make sure ads steer clear of controversial content

Karen K. Ho / Columbia Journalism Review:

Univision goes on lockdown ahead of Hurricane Irma — The Univision newsroom in Miami. Courtesy photo. — As hurricanes pummel Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, many news organizations are struggling to keep their audiences up to date on a dizzying range of other stories.

Discussion: @oliverdarcy, @sarah_smarsh, @lkherman and @jczamora

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Analysis of Getty's top-selling image for keyword “woman” from 2007-2017 shows move away from stereotypes towards “gritty” shots, driven by Lean In collections — In 2007, the top-selling image for the search term “woman” in Getty Image's library of stock photography …

Discussion: @wolfe321, @jshkatz, @clairecm, @jggnyc, @jim_edwards, @zatlyn and @hunterschwarz

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Q&A with NYU professor Rodney Benson on his new paper, “Can foundations solve the journalism crisis?”, about the limitations of American nonprofit news sites — “The potential for nonprofits to offer a radical alternative to commercial media is being lost.”

Basil Enan / The Official Medium Blog:

Medium adds curated articles from The New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and others to its premium membership program — Members can enjoy curated selections from The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, and more

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