Mediagazer: NBCU debuts CFlight metric, which adds up exposure via broadcast, cable, and streaming and counts completed views of commercials, as audience metrics multiply (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

11:30 AM ET, April 5, 2018

Top News:

Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Sinclair CEO David Smith defends his company's “must-run” segments on media bias, likens them to the late-night shows other networks air on local affiliates — David D. Smith, the chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, says the media is getting his company all wrong.

Discussion: Mediaite, CBS Dallas, @buzzfeedben, Media Matters for America and Center for Public Integrity

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

A Sinclair TV producer at KHGI in Nebraska, Justin Simmons, resigned March 26 in protest of what he calls the company's “obvious bias” — Ex-Sinclair news director: We had must-run pieces — A morning TV producer at a Sinclair-owned station in Nebraska has resigned in protest …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap, Motherboard, GeekWire, Techdirt, The Daily Caller, FTVLive, ThinkProgress, Variety, TVWeek.com, Slate, Deadline, @justinsimmonsne, Vox, @mattdpearce and @mlcalderone

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Cambridge Analytica denies Facebook's claim that it accessed data on 87M Facebook users, claims it “licensed data for no more than 30M people” — Cambridge Analytica is refuting a report by Facebook today that said Cambridge Analytica improperly attained data on up to 87 million users.

Discussion: Fortune, 9to5Google, Recode, Mashable and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Eleanor Dickinson / Mumbrella Asia:

Facebook statistics show data from 3.6M+ users in Asia, ~1M in UK, and 700K+ in Mexico may be among the 87M who had information analyzed by Cambridge Analytica — Facebook has this morning revealed that more than 3.6 million users its service in Asia may have had their information improperly shared …

Discussion: TechCrunch and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Mark Zuckerberg refutes earlier reports, says Facebook will make GDPR controls available globally, notes different markets, laws may require different formats — Mark Zuckerberg refuted a Reuters story yesterday that said Facebook would not bring Europe's General Data Protection Regulation privacy safeguards around the world.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, Fortune, Recode, BetaNews, BGR, Mashable, The Ringer, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, @zackwhittaker, The Outline, Marketing Land, The Hill, BetaNews, Variety, Fast Company, WIRED UK and KTLA, more at Techmeme »

Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook now says Cambridge Analytica may have collected information on as many as 87M people, mostly in US; original reports pegged the number closer to 50M

Discussion: Facebook, Columbia Journalism Review, Media Matters for America, Business Insider, The Guardian, Forbes, Fortune, ThinkProgress, TechCrunch, CNBC, PRI, WIRED UK, Talking Biz News, Android Police, New York Times, Facebook, Facebook Developers, theconversation.com, Yourstory.com, SlashGear, MediaNama, Press Gazette, Brian Solis, BGR, East Bay Times, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, Marketing Land, The Verge, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Next Web, Motherboard, TheBlaze, Mashable, Multichannel News, Deadline, CBS Los Angeles, BuzzFeed, Ad Age, New York Magazine, MacRumors, BBC, Engadget, Mumbrella, AOL, ZDNet, Adweek, Mediaite, Politico, Facebook, The Wrap, Boing Boing, GeekWire, Fast Company, Slate, The Week, Los Angeles Times, AdExchanger, @danbbaer, @mediaguardian, The Guardian, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Mother Jones, @jamiejbartlett, @ow, CNBC, @senblumenthal, The Verge, @alexeheath, @juliawaldow, @caseynewton, Variety, @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8 and Facebook, more at Techmeme »

Todd Spangler / Variety:

MoviePass parent company acquires Moviefone from Oath for $15M; Oath will continue selling Moviefone's digital ad inventory — MoviePass is saying “Hello — and welcome to Moviefone!" — Helios and Matheson Analytics, the majority owner of MoviePass, announced the acquisition of Moviefone from Verizon's Oath subsidiary.

Discussion: Adweek, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Business Wire, Hollywood Reporter, @tim_stevens and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Twitter says it suspended 274K accounts for promoting terrorism in last six months of 2017, bringing total to 1.2M since August 2015 — It suspended more than 274,000 accounts just in the last six months of 2017. — Twitter suspended more than 1.2 million accounts that were promoting terrorism …

more at Techmeme »

Mike Ananny / Columbia Journalism Review:

Report on Facebook's fact-checking partnerships examines the struggles of tech companies teaming up with news orgs, details distrust and lack of transparency — Facebook and five US news and fact-checking organizations—ABC News, the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and Snopes …

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

NBCU debuts CFlight metric, which adds up exposure via broadcast, cable, and streaming and counts completed views of commercials, as audience metrics multiply — - Jason Chaffetz, Katie Pavlich, Brian Kilmeade and Pete Hegseth to Sub for Laura Ingraham on Fox News

Discussion: Deadline, AdExchanger, Broadcasting & Cable and FierceCable

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Interview with Renée Kaplan, FT head of audience engagement, on appealing to more female subscribers via a newsletter, encouraging potential op-eds, and more — Only 20 percent of the FT's subscribers were women. Renée Kaplan, the paper's head of audience engagement, is doing a lot of things to change that.

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Conde Nast has a median pay gap of 23.3% despite a female majority at every pay level; The Economist Group's 29.5% median pay gap is the highest in UK media — Conde Nast has the largest mean gender pay gap favouring men among all UK publishers and broadcasters, but, when the median is taken …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, @jamesrbuk, gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk, Digiday and WIRED UK

Davidporter / 8tracks Blog:

8tracks, a streaming music startup that focuses on playlists and has used crowdfunding to raise capital, re-introduces free streaming in the US — Thanks to our much-appreciated 8tracks Plus subscribers and the recent introduction of new audio ads, we're beyond excited to say goodbye …

Discussion: RAIN News and @thegodfathersa

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 11:30 AM ET, April 5, 2018.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Who's Hiring in Media?

Deputy Ed. - Gen. Assignment Desk, DC — WaPo

EU Technology Reporter, Brussels — Bloomberg

Breaking News Reporter, NY — Guardian US

Harrisburg Reporter, PA — PCBC

Senior Editor - Styles, NY — NYT

Part-time Editor, Remote — Techmeme

Home & Travel Reporter, Ireland — Newsweek

Assistant Digital Editor, MA — Boston Globe

Senior Editor - Visuals (Temporary), DC — NPR

South Reporter, GA/Remote — ProPublica

Private Capital Reporter, London — FT

Staff Writer, MI — Watershed Voice

Articles Editor, CA — SF Standard

Pharma Reporter, Remote US — Endpoints

Metro Reporter, TN — Daily Memphian

Higher Ed. Reporter, Remote CA — EdSource

Politics Reporter, Brussels — Politico

Investigations & Enterprise Ed., WI — Cap Times

Social Strategy Editor, NY — WSJ

Business Reporter, TX — Fort Worth Report

Senior Narrative Editor, CA — Cloud Chamber

News Correspondent, MS — Magnolia Tribune

Accountability Reporter, NC — Charlotte Observer

Editor-in-Chief, NY (flexible) — The 74

Housing Reporter, OK — The Frontier

Writer/AI Content Reviewer, CA — Outlier

Writer/Editor, Remote — Mediaite

Political Reporter, TX — Courier Newsroom

Afternoon/Night Editor, NH — Keene Sentinel

Education Lab Editor, WA — Seattle Times

Staff Writer, MA/Remote — Tech Advisor

State Worker Reporter, CA — Sacramento Bee

Executive Editor, NM — Searchlight

Reporter, NC — NC Newsline

Add your company here

See Also:

Mediagazer: site main

Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer

Mediagazer Mobile: for phones

Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources

Subscribe:

Mediagazer RSS feed

Mediagazer on X

Mediagazer on Mastodon

More News:

Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Sarah Lacy unveils Chairman Mom, a $5/month Q&A site with a 3-person team curating 2 questions/day; site requires real names on signup, but Q&A can be anonymous

Discussion: Mashable, @1nquisitivemind, FinSMEs, @sarahcuda and @sarahcuda, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:
WPP settles gender discrimination lawsuit brought by Erin Johnson, former J. Walter Thompson comms chief, alleging misconduct by then-JWT CEO Gustavo Martinez

Discussion: Adweek, NPR, The Drum, Ad Age, Business Insider, The Week and Adweek

PR Newswire:
Comcast, Charter, and Cox announce new division of their jointly owned NCC Media to sell ads through linear TV and VOD using data to target specific audiences

Discussion: Business Insider and Axios

Earlier Picks:

Audra Schroeder / The Daily Dot:
Former contributors and producers at Channel Awesome, a YouTube channel, allege sexual misconduct, harassment, verbal abuse, and more against management

Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Judge denies Bill O'Reilly's motion to keep settlements with accusers sealed; deal with Andrea Mackris could have forced her to lie even under oath

Discussion: Media Matters for America, New York Times, CBS Los Angeles, Variety, The Wrap, ThinkProgress, The Daily Beast, @perlberg, Mediaite, TV Tattle, @nycsouthpaw, @mmasnick, Washington Post, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @jonswaine, @tomkludt and @tomkludt

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Researchers at Ohio State University find fake news probably played a significant role in depressing Hillary Clinton's support on Election Day

From Techmeme:

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions

Sister Sites:

Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web

memeorandum
What US political commentators are discussing online right now

WeSmirch
The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page