Mediagazer: AT&T's DirecTV Now launches its cloud DVR, alongside a new tier with 100 hours of recording and 90 days of storage for $10/month more, adds more content, more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

6:40 PM ET, May 15, 2018

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Tom Wolfe, the journalist and author who helped create the 1960s movement known as “The New Journalism”, has died at age 88 — Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers …

The Guardian:

Facebook releases first content moderation report, closed 583M fake accounts in Q1 2018, took action on almost 1.5B accounts and 2.5M instances of hate speech — Firm's first quarterly moderation report also shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence — Facebook took moderation action …

Discussion: New York Times, Facebook, Facebook, @dancow, CNNMoney, @profcarroll, @skoczela, @nytimes, The Daily Caller, Adweek, @lulu_lemew, Engadget, @kevinbankston, Fortune, @eff, VentureBeat, @annelaumen, @mathewi, @alexhern, @facebook and @kantrowitz, more at Techmeme »

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

SCOTUS declines to hear “podcasting patent” case Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, handing win to EFF, after the patent was invalidated in 2015 — Back in 2015, Personal Audio's claimed patent was invalidated by a federal court.

Discussion: Electronic Frontier Foundation, RAIN News, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

AT&T's DirecTV Now launches its cloud DVR, alongside a new tier with 100 hours of recording and 90 days of storage for $10/month more, adds more content, more — AT&T's over-the-top streaming service for cord cutters, DirecTV Now, is finally beginning to roll out its cloud DVR feature - a year and a half after its launch.

Discussion: Fast Company, DIRECTV NOW, Variety, Android Central, Engadget, Multichannel News and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

A study of 2 print and 2 digital-born news outlets in each of 11 European countries shows 41% of bylines were by male reporters and 23% from female reporters — Across 11 countries studied, 41 percent of bylines were male, 23 percent female. — It's the era of #metoo …

Discussion: European Journalism …, @laurahazardowen, @ejonews, @shyznogud, @maevemcc, @ejonews, @julieposetti, @fill_litfest, @cityjournalism, @nilanjanaroy, @louiseridley and @zziomecka

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Consolidation of newsrooms by companies that own multiple TV stations in one market is creating uniformity of coverage, lessening watchdog power of local media — As big chains gobble up small TV stations, merged newsrooms are creating a uniformity of news coverage.

Discussion: @amyargetsinger, @jillgeisler, @jackgillum, @renato_mariotti and @daneggenwpost

Emily Smith / Page Six:

Sources: Bill O'Reilly is in talks to return to cable news at Newsmax TV, one year after being forced out from Fox News amid sexual harassment allegations — Bill O'Reilly is in talks to head back to cable news in his old 8 p.m. slot, but this time at Newsmax TV, sources exclusively tell Page Six.

Discussion: Washington Post, TVWeek.com, @timothypmurphy, The New York Observer, @mattgertz, @damonlinker, @davidsirota, @desijed, @elle_chiefelk, @pamela_vogel, Decider, @karoli, Business Insider, @corennacornwell, @colincampbell and @daweiner

Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:

Profile of David Brody, correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, who receives access to Trump while giving a direct line to an evangelical audience — David Brody has unusual access to the president. In return, Mr. Trump gets a direct line to the evangelical audience he depends on.

Jason Schwartz / Politico:

Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti threatened to sue conservative outlet The Daily Caller News Foundation after they published a report on him — Stormy Daniels's lawyer calls out Daily Caller News Foundation for alleged “hit pieces.” — On Sunday, a national news outlet published …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News

Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:

Betting-focused channels and fantasy sites expected to crowd the media field with the SCOTUS decision to allow states to offer sports betting — TVG, HRTV, WinView ready to pounce on opportunity — The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to offer sports gambling services …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, Adweek, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Recode, Slate, The Ringer, @jareddiamond, @connieschultz, Connie Schultz, @danshanoff, @brianphickey, @niemanlab, GeekWire, ESPN, @dailymail, @pkafka, @esportslaw, Broadcasting & Cable, Fortune, VentureBeat, The Ringer, CNBC, USA Today, Bloomberg and TechCrunch

BuzzFeed:

Google News bug means BBC News articles are dominating search results for “news” by UK users, to the detriment of other publishers; Google working on a fix — It comes days after Google announced big changes in how it ranks news publishers.

Discussion: @dimblebot, @robmanuel, @chrismoranuk, @charliebeckett and @markdistef

Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:

How some newspaper staffers and audiences are pushing back as newsrooms face yet more cuts amid owners' disinvestment — Image via Unsplash. — Legacy news outlets have a unique mission to serve the public good. Their very names offer up a litany of place and purpose: the Cleveland Plain Dealer …

Discussion: @apstamm, @cmonstah, @news_guild and Splinter

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Rich Lord / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
PCP Editor Charlie Deitch says he was fired after being told he could no longer write about a GOP state lawmaker, who was a client of paper's parent company

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Minute Media, which operates a number of user-generated sports sites that attract 80M-90M users per month, raises $17M Series F led by Goldman Sachs and others

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Columbia Journalism Review:
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
At least seven Palestinian reporters injured by Israeli gunfire while covering protests marking the 70th anniversary of what Israel says is its independence day

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Bloomberg:
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Thu-Huong Ha / Quartz:
Amazon's control of the self-published ebook industry means authors lose negotiating power and publishers can't compete on pricing or receive data on what sells

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TiVo adds Alexa voice control to its DVRs, says assistant will be able to perform tasks like changing channels, launching apps, more; roll out expected June 1

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says ~85% of new spending to go toward original content, plans to have about 1,000 originals total by the end of 2018

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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
How WhatsApp is being used to spread misinformation, share fake polls, and exacerbate religious divides ahead of national elections in India

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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

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

Discussion: Nieman Lab, MediaPost and @jayrosen_nyu

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

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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

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