Mediagazer: Advertisers on Facebook are re-examining their ad spend commitments to the platform as average price per ad goes up and ad targeting gets harder after GDPR (Seb Joseph/Digiday)

8:35 PM ET, May 14, 2018

Top News:

Salt Lake Tribune cuts 34 of its 90 newsroom staff, eliminates Utah news section several days a week, and will cut back on pages amid plunging revenues — In a radical restructuring of Utah's largest newspaper, owner Paul Huntsman proceeded Monday with cutting 34 Salt Lake Tribune employees …

Discussion: Associated Press, KUER 90.1, @shireenghorbani, Salt Lake Tribune, @mathewi, @rexnutting and fox13now.com

Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:

Journalists covering Trump are earning anything from $30K to $250K from on-air contributor roles, on top of securing lucrative book deals — And reporters in DC do. — A whirlwind Washington era has vaulted White House reporters into a charmed, somewhat awkward, but characteristically Trumpian reality: fame and fortune.

Discussion: HuffPost, @bgrueskin, The Outline, @tomgara, @andreagonram, @jstein_wapo, @byrontau, @anamariecox, @laurenhorsch, @jayrosen_nyu and @perlberg

Committee to Protect Journalists:

CPJ urges Kenyan president to not sign a bill that would target journalists, bloggers, and others with jail and fines for publishing “false” information — The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta not to sign into law a cybercrimes bill …

Discussion: Daily Nation

Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:

A look at Trump's relationship with Sean Hannity and Fox News, with nightly conversations with the host and network coverage dictating the President's agenda — The call to the White House comes after ten o'clock most weeknights, when Hannity is over. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday …

Discussion: Mediaite, AOL, @ddale8, Washington Post, @akiperitz, Newser, The Daily Caller, TVNewser, @matthewamiller, @ryanlizza, @jhnclmn, @johndalybooks, @renato_mariotti, @lolgop, @travis_view, @maggienyt, Mashable and Contemptor

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

CBS files lawsuit against majority shareholder Shari Redstone, accusing her of pressing for Viacom merger against wishes of CBS board members — The battle over the future of CBS and Viacom has taken an extraordinary turn as CBS Corp. has filed a lawsuit accusing majority shareholder Shari Redstone …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Radio & Television …, CBS Corporation, Hollywood Reporter, Recode, @bristei, Fortune, Ad Age, CNNMoney, Adweek, MediaPost, Multichannel News, Los Angeles Times, @shalini, @brianstelter, @jbflint and @alexweprin

New York Times:

Americans 25-34 spend 18.4 hours a week watching live TV while those 50-64 watch 39.6 hours; national TV ad sales peaked in 2016 at $43B but fell 2.2% last year — Television networks will draw hordes of advertisers to New York City this week for their annual bonanza of presentations and parties …

Discussion: Recode, Recode and Ad Age

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

The Hill's John Solomon to become an “opinion contributor”, following recent complaints by colleagues over stories they thought lacked context and rigor — Bob Cusack, editor-in-chief of The Hill, wrote on Monday that John Solomon is a new “opinion contributor” for the Capitol Hill publication.

Discussion: Media Matters for America and Contemptor

Ernst-Jan Pfauth / De Correspondent:

Omidyar Network grants The Correspondent $950K in runway funding, bringing total to $1.8M, as the membership model outlet plans English-language launch — One year ago, we shared our big plans for a global edition of De Correspondent. Today we're proud to announce two key partnerships …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review

Seb Joseph / Digiday:

Advertisers on Facebook are re-examining their ad spend commitments to the platform as average price per ad goes up and ad targeting gets harder after GDPR — Advertisers are more concerned that they are wasting money on Facebook than they are about the platform's privacy lapses.

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Source: Ronan Farrow's forthcoming book “Catch and Kill” will discuss his clash with NBC execs over Weinstein story and how it ended up at The New Yorker — How ‘catch and kill’ is used to bury news stories — Ronan Farrow was working for NBC News when he began investigating Harvey Weinstein.

Discussion: New York Times, @lkherman, @maxasteele, @aaronblake, @yashar, @brianstelter and @brianstelter

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Credibility at NBC News is in trouble following lack of support for Ronan Farrow, a correction on a Michael Cohen story, skepticism about Lauer probe, and more

Discussion: American Press Institute, TVNewser, @sulliview, @terri_rupar, @keitholbermann, @jayrosen_nyu, @ggreenwald and @z_everson

Garett Sloane / Ad Age:

Snapchat starts showing unskippable six-second ads in the middle of Shows; ads don't link to longer videos or e-commerce sites like its typical video ad unit — Snapchat viewers are seeing a new type of ad—ones they have to watch. — On Monday, the first forced-view ads …

Discussion: 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »

Henry Mance / Financial Times:

UK House of Lords calls for an inquiry into alleged press misconduct but House of Commons likely to reject the proposal on Tuesday — The UK's House of Lords has risked the fury of the newspaper industry by again calling for an inquiry into alleged press misconduct. SL

Discussion: The Guardian, Mirror.co.uk, Daily Mail, The Independent, Telegraph, HuffPost UK and The Guardian

Cory Nealon / University of Buffalo:

Study: less than 10% of users who retweeted false info during disasters deleted their RT later, less than 20% of them clarified false RT with a new tweet — Study examines Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy; also finds most users fail to correct misinformation

Discussion: Gizmodo