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Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider:
Apple Music now has over 50M users including paid members and trials, Tim Cook says in wide-ranging interview — In a wide-ranging interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook divulged Apple Music subscriber numbers, and said that a strong push into television and movies is underway.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News settles about 20 lawsuits over racial or gender discrimination, not including Rod Wheeler and Scottie Hughes cases; source says settlement was ~$10M — Douglas Wigdor, the attorney representing more individuals against 21st Century Fox than anyone else, makes a big deal …
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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 …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
The Associated Press is launching AP VoteCast, a new way of measuring exit polls abandoning traditional methods, in partnership with Fox News — The Associated Press unveiled a new project Tuesday to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections.
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Pew Research Center:
In Western Europe, trust in news media varies more widely between populist/non-populist views than between left/right politics; trust lowest in Southern Europe — France, Spain and Italy are more fragmented in their news sources and more negative toward the news media than other countries
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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.
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Joseph Otterson / Variety:
Time Inc.'s TV production arm, Time Inc. Productions, has rebranded as Four M Studios and is partnering with Freeform to develop scripted movies — Months after its $1.85 billion acquisition of Time Inc.'s stable of magazines, media conglom Meredith is ready to make its mark on the company's TV production arm.
Libby Watson / Splinter:
The Hill posted an op-ed from a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia without disclosing the tie at first, echoing the way it treated a 2016 post by Michael Flynn on Turkey — Norm Coleman might be vaguely familiar to you as a former senator from Minnesota and the guy whom Al Franken narrowly defeated in 2008 …
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
The new AI-powered Google News app is now available on iOS replacing the Google Play Newsstand app — Google said last week at its I/O developer conference that the revamped, artificial intelligence-powered Google News would be arriving on Apple's App Store some time in the next seven days.
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The Splice Newsroom and TechCrunch, 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.
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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times has created a political investigations unit and has appointed Pulitzer-prize winning Editor Paul Fishleder to lead it — In a sign of our dedication to the 2018 and 2020 elections, the newsroom is starting a new unit, which Paul Fishleder, one of The New York Times's …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
National Geographic and The Wall Street Journal are launching Far & Away, a print magazine for business travelers; first issue will be bundled with May 19 WSJ — National Geographic and The Wall Street Journal have partnered to launch Far & Away, a print magazine for business travelers …
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