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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision confirms it hopes to sell Gizmodo Media Group and its stake in The Onion and has hired Morgan Stanley to help with the sale — Univision Communications is officially looking to unload the Gizmodo Media Group — which mostly comprises the sites it acquired in the bankruptcy auction …
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Radio & Television …, KABE-LP, @maxwelltani, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Mediaite, @shalini, @attackerman and @maxwelltani
Rishi Iyengar / CNNMoney:
WhatsApp is using newspapers to fight fake news in India, taking out full-page ads offering news literacy tips in leading English-language and Hindi titles — Here's why quitting Facebook is so hard — WhatsApp is using old media to tackle its misinformation problem in India.
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@mantzarlis, @nbrownpoynter, @craigsilverman, @mathewi, @aroondeep, @iyengarish, Poynter and Techdirt
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Taylor Kate Brown / BBC:
A look at how the loss of local newspapers, combined with dwindling regional coverage, is affecting American cities like Boulder and Denver — In the past decade, hundreds of local US newspapers have closed or merged. What happens to the communities they leave behind?
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@jhoekemaphotog, @hadas_gold, @coreyhutchins, @ehernandez, @businessofnews and The Rural Blog
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Philo, a low-cost live-streaming TV service, has raised $40M Series C led by existing investors AMC Networks, Discovery, and Viacom — Internet TV provider launches service on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV — Philo has nabbed more dough: The low-cost live-streaming TV “skinny bundle” …
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The Wrap, Multichannel News and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Business Insider removed a post about portrayals of trans individuals in Hollywood following staff complaints, said article did not meet its standards — Business Insider removed a post about portrayals of trans individuals in Hollywood after staff complained internally about the column …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Amid his controversial quotes about HBO, John Stankey committed to increasing the network's programming budget, in order to compete with Netflix globally — Commentary: John Stankey's blunt talk was just what Richard Plepler wanted to hear — When a conversation from a high-level internal …
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The A.V. Club and VideoInk
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Megh Wright / Vulture:
For a few hours, the Washington Post cited satire site Clickhole as a reputable source in a story on UK effort to push “American Idiot” to top of music charts — You may have heard the news that Brits are trolling Donald Trump ahead of his visit with Prime Minister Theresa …
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Washington Post, @washingtonpost, @samthielman, Mediaite, Fast Company, Bustle, @megh_wright, @samthielman, @ashleyfeinberg, The A.V. Club and @onthemedia
New York Times:
The New York Times says its 55 newsletters now have over 14M subscribers collectively — Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. — Chris Stanford likes to think of himself as a “news concierge.”
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed News partners with NPR's Audie Cornish for “Profile”, a live-recorded interview series filmed in front of an audience and broadcast on Facebook Watch — Facebook has funded BuzzFeed News' “Profile,” a weekly interview show hosted by Audie Cornish of NPR's “All Things Considered …
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Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed and Current
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Reese Witherspoon's production company Hello Sunshine partners with AT&T to launch subscription channel on DirecTV, DirecTV Now, and U-Verse — Hello Sunshine, the actress/producer's production company, will have two unscripted series available on AT&T's DirecTV — for a monthly fee for current subscribers.
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The Guardian and @melsil
Rachel Dicker / Mediaite:
NBC's Leigh Ann Caldwell deletes tweet saying Justice Anthony Kennedy had negotiated with Trump on his replacement, admits she had little evidence — NBC Capitol Hill reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell tweeted — then deleted — a claim about Justice Anthony Kennedy and President Donald Trump that got her in some hot water with the right.
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MediaPost, Jacobin, Politico, Fortune, The Daily Caller, @ddale8, @imillhiser, @jayrosen_nyu and Above the Law
The Keyword:
Google expands use of machine learning for advertisers by launching Responsive search ads, Maximize lift for YouTube, and more — The ways people get things done are constantly changing, from finding the closest coffee shop to organizing family photos. Earlier this year …
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The Drum, MediaPost and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Newsletter startup Substack now has 11K paying subscribers, with revenue split between 10 medium-sized publications — On average, they're paying just under $80 per year. About 40 or so indie publishers with paid offerings are making what Substack calls “meaningful money.”
Thanks:@nicolasmagand
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
YouTube says it will invest $25M in grants to news organizations looking to expand video operations as part of Google's larger $300M Google News Initiative — FOLLOWING A YEAR in which YouTube has repeatedly promoted conspiracy theory videos during breaking news events like the shootings in Parkland …
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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
YouTube taps six popular YouTubers to teach teens about false news and is creating a group of news advisers including Vox Media, Brazil's Jovem Pan, India Today
YouTube Blog:
YouTube overhauls how it handles breaking news, adding previews of articles from credible sources, showing info from third parties, testing local news in TV app
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Adweek, The Daily Caller, MediaPost, TechCrunch, MediaNama, VideoInk, Relay FM Master Feed, Variety, The Next Web, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge and Boing Boing
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