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5:35 PM ET, May 19, 2018

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Washington Post:
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 …
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.
Discussion: Techdirt
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 …
Discussion: New York Post and Mediawire
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Janelle Irwin / Tampa Bay Business Journal:   Meredith to lay off 621 people starting in July as it closes three former Time customer service operations centers in Florida
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
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 …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Profile: Fox News' Neil Cavuto, a Trump skeptic who champions capitalism, financial markets, and free trade, and whose health makes for unique on-air challenges  —  Neil Cavuto's voice comes through loud and clear on President Trump, and it's not admiring.  —  Neil Cavuto's voice strikes a tone of bemused reason on Fox News.
Discussion: Racked
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
Discussion: Reuters
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 …
Discussion: @jason_kint and Ad Age
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
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.
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
Discussion: 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.
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After reports that Tidal is inflating streaming numbers for big stars and is late paying royalties, company hires cybersecurity firm to investigate breach
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Andrea Tantaros loses a lawsuit against Fox News as judge rejects her wiretapping claims that alleged computer hacking and surreptitious recording of women
MediaPost:
Nielsen to add a separate data stream that will include one day of delayed viewing to account for time-shifted local TV views, available from July
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Alleged owners of Mugshots.com, a site that publishes mugshots and demands payment for removal, arrested on extortion, money laundering, identity theft charges
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Charter is using language from net neutrality repeal in dispute over unfulfilled promises with NY state to claim states have no authority over it in lawsuits
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