Mediagazer: New California law requires all businesses, including newspapers, to clarify the terms of auto-renewal and make subscription cancellation possible online (Shan Wang/Nieman Lab)

Chris Johnston / BBC:

Telegraph Media Group reports a decline in revenue to £285.7M as profits drop from £27.1M in 2016 to £13.7M in 2017; company sets goal of 3M subs by end of year — Profits at the Telegraph Media Group halved last year as revenues from print advertising and circulation fell by 9%.

Discussion: The Drum, Financial Times, @chrismsutcliffe and The Guardian

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Wikipedia redirects all of its Italian, Spanish, and Polish pages to a statement protesting July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Wikipedia's Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions of the free online encyclopedia …

Discussion: BBC, The Register, Plagiarism Today, Engadget, @notesfrompoland, DW.COM, The Local, Gizmodo and Personanondata, more at Techmeme »

Adrian Chen / New Yorker:

Profile of Paul Denino, an “IRL” streamer who goes by Ice Poseidon and streams most of his life on YouTube, often with serious consequences — When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

Discussion: @max_read, @loudmouthjulia, @shelbygrad, @adrianchen and @realiceposeidon, more at Techmeme »

Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:

A look at changes WhatsApp can make to curb misinformation after violence in India, including making messages private by default and forwarding only by consent — With over 200 million users in India, WhatsApp has a massive Fake News and misinformation problem.

Discussion: pib.nic.in, Gizmodo, MediaNama, @yaso, @theromit, @dikshamadhok, @nixxin, @karunanundy, @saliltripathi, SiliconANGLE, BuzzFeed, ThePrint, The Next Web and NDTV.com, more at Techmeme »

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

New California law requires all businesses, including newspapers, to clarify the terms of auto-renewal and make subscription cancellation possible online — Here's a script you're surely familiar with if you've ever tried to cancel a subscription to, well, anything:

Discussion: TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Elias Biryabarema / Reuters:

Uganda president defends new 5 cent/day tax for citizens wanting to access platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Whatsapp, says social media is used for “lying” — KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has defended the country's new social media tax …

Discussion: Forbes, BBC, Quartz, Associated Press, newvision.co.ug, The Observer and Daily Nation, more at Techmeme »

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

Under its new rules, Facebook reveals some details of the political ads about the SCOTUS nomination, but the money behind some groups buying ads remains opaque — Even before President Trump's new Supreme Court nominee is announced, a fight over the choice is raging on social media.

Discussion: @dabeard, @profgalloway, @jeremybmerrill, @campaignlegal, @wexler, USA Today, @issielapowsky, The Daily Caller and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Russian Duma committee approves legislation that would label bloggers and journalists foreign agents if they work for organizations labeled as foreign agents — The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Russian authorities to refrain from labeling individual bloggers and journalists as foreign agents.

Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:

A look at NJ's bill to use $5M to support local media: five universities as collaborators, a board to oversee grants, language emphasizing media independence — The dollar amount isn't huge, and it will barely put a dent in the crisis of local news. But it's also an official statement …

Discussion: @brianstelter, CNNMoney, @redsteeze, @heminator, Free Press, LegiScan, @freepress and The Daily Caller

Shadma Shaikh / FactorDaily:

Inside NewsDog, a Tencent-backed Chinese app aimed at entertainment, regional content, and money generating schemes, with 50M Indian users and ~200M DAUs total — “You will never find any other app on Playstore that makes a millionaire within two clicks," details a video on YouTube channel Technical Boss.

Maria Abi-Habib / New York Times:

Sri Lankan lawmakers held a news conference to try to discredit local New York Times journalists by accusing them of being paid by the current government — NEW DELHI — Sri Lankan lawmakers allied with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa have publicly denounced The New York Times in recent days …

Discussion: @meslackman, @nytimespr and Committee to Protect …

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

With 15% of subscribers and higher growth rates coming from abroad, the NYT focuses on regional content, targeting gathered audiences, and translating stories — “What I'm trying to figure out is, what are the proxies for deeper engagement — what are the proxies for repeated use and habituation …

Discussion: News Media Alliance