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Sources: Trump personally pushed US Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other companies — President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: bidding for Meredith's Time magazine nears $200M, with Fortune and Money together drawing similar bids — Selloff activities and employee purges continued at Meredith this week. — Sources say Citigroup is lining up management presentations for next week for potential suitors interested …
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Ernie Smith / Motherboard:
A history of the music industry's first efforts at creating music streaming services after Napster and why they failed given the importance of streaming now — Lessons from the music industry's initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard.
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Techdirt
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Inside Coleman-Rayner, the paparazzi agency that conducted negative research on Weinstein's rape accuser and staged photographs of Meghan Markle's father — When Prince Harry finally marries Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle on Saturday, it'll be no thanks to the celebrity gossip and picture agency …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Media outlets plan saturation coverage of the royal wedding: Snapchat is producing a four-part series with TLC, BBC and CNN will stream for free early Saturday
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Jonathan Randles / Wall Street Journal:
Judge says he will approve agreement between Thiel and Gawker Media, declines Gizmodo's request to prevent Thiel from funding future lawsuits against it — Agreement ends wrangling with the billionaire who funded the Hulk Hogan privacy lawsuit that sent Gawker into bankruptcy
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Reuters
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A look at how the South China Morning Post is expanding its audience to the “globally curious” through its verticals as its audience makeup shifts from China — With its new verticals Abacus and Inkstone, the century-old newspaper is trying to use Alibaba money to build products …
Lara O'Reilly / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google to meet with publishers on May 24 to discuss concerns that GDPR-related changes will make Google even more dominant in digital advertising — Google invites publishers to meetings at four of its global offices on May 24. — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to meet …
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Ad Age and @jason_kint
Jessi Hempel / Wired:
A look at the history of Facebook's Internet.org project, which it says has brought 100M online, from its 2013 debut to Free Basics — Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn't go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition.
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David Taylor / The Guardian:
A year into the Mueller investigation, viewer burnout regarding Trump reflected in falling ratings for CNN and Fox as channels ignore other national issues — For 12 months the special counsel's inquiry has fascinated a huge audience - but important issues are fighting for attention
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
News Media Alliance says Facebook's political ad rules would lump ads purchased by news orgs to promote articles on political topics with political messaging — Saying rules are too broad, media outlets fear ads promoting news stories will be lumped in with political messaging
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CNNMoney and VentureBeat
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Publishers prefer YouTube over platforms like Facebook because of predictable success parameters, longer shelf life of evergreen content, deeper user engagement — Sometimes, being reliable goes a long way — and for smaller publishers looking to grow sustainable video businesses, that means focusing on YouTube.
Music Business Worldwide:
After reports that Tidal is inflating streaming numbers for big stars and is late paying royalties, company hires cybersecurity firm to investigate breach — Under-fire streaming platform TIDAL has announced that it has enlisted an “independent, third party cyber-security firm” to investigate a potential data breach at the company.
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