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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Senate passes the Music Modernization Act, which will improve artist payouts from streaming giants, royalties for pre-1972 songs, and payouts to producers — The Senate cleared a bill late on Tuesday, the Music Modernization Act, that will dramatically restructure the way royalties are handed …
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Press Gazette:
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright says he will not rule out a levy on tech giants to fund newsrooms and the battle against fake news — Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has said he will not rule out a levy on tech giants to fund responsible journalism. — Wright has said it would be …
Ioan Grillo / Esquire:
A look at the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, co-founder of the country's weekly newsmagazine Ríodoce, and how the case became known worldwide — El Chapo, Mexico's most notorious drug lord, sits in an American jail, awaiting his trial next month in Brooklyn.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: BuzzFeed is cutting its in-house podcast production team and shutting down most of its podcasts, as it shifts resources towards original video content — Digital-media company looks to shift resources away from audio to focus on producing more original shows
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The $190M price for Time magazine shows the long-lasting power of brand: comScore numbers showed millennials made up nearly half of its online audience in 2016 — Meredith Corp.'s sale of Time magazine elicited surprise for the buyer (Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff) with its $190 million price tag.
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Laurie Penny / Longreads:
Why refusing to “debate” some bad moral ideas isn't about censorship, and why I refused to speak alongside Steve Bannon at an Economist event — There are some stupid mistakes that only very smart people make, and one of them is the notion that a sensible argument seriously presented …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Facebook begins classifying news Pages to determine which publishers' ads will be in the news section of Facebook's Ad Archive, details criteria for news Pages — Facebook is moving forward with its controversial Ad Archive with a new system being announced today that will decide where to include individual publishers in the archive.
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Axios, Facebook Media and Adweek
Malte Ubl / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project:
Google says it is moving the AMP project to an open governance model, forms steering committee with reps from other companies — Over the last 2 years AMP has grown from a tiny open source project with just 2 contributors to a much larger one with over 700 folks contributing over 10,000 commits running on many millions of websites.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ITV appoints Reema Sakhan, currently Senior VP at streaming service Britbox US and Canada, to oversee its forthcoming SVOD effort — CEO Carolyn McCall and other top executives of the U.K. TV giant speak at the company's Capital Markets Day in London. — ITV CEO Carolyn McCall told analysts …
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin / Inc.com:
Book excerpt: how Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian patched their fractured friendship and reclaimed Reddit's helm — Reddit's co-founders patched their fractured friendship to save the company that defined them. … Steve Huffman had been seeing a therapist for a few years …
New York Magazine:
New York Magazine will expand its Intelligencer site in October, adding Josh Barro, Zak Cheney-Rice, and Sarah Jones to its staff and incorporating Select All — New York Media today announced the upcoming launch of Intelligencer, a new destination covering politics, business, technology, media, and innovation.
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@rafat, @shaneferro, @onesarahjones, @zakcheneyrice and @jbarro
Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Simon & Schuster said Bob Woodward's new book, “Fear”, sold 1.1M+ copies in its first week, breaking the company's record for first-week sales — Author's inside look at the Trump White House sold 1.1 million copies — “Fear,” Bob Woodward's inside look at the Trump White House …
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