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Aaron Williams / Washington Post:
A comparison of the lower-third chyrons displayed on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox during the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing sheds light on how they interpreted it — As Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford gave their testimony in a hearing that spanned more than six hours on Thursday …
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@blewis2080
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Kavanaugh hearings were a rare collective civic moment as every major network suspended regular coverage and people called C-SPAN to share their reactions — The Senate testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh unspooled over nearly nine hours on Thursday …
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@chicagotribune, @cnnpolitics, Politico, CNN and Washington Post
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Tow Center study of digital adaption in local news: Google's reach, from AMP to ads, is pervasive, 12% of outlets don't have a website, 80% have a Facebook page — So you want to support local news. But can you even find the subscribe button on the Daily Planet's clunky website to do so?
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Columbia Journalism Review, @janebsinger, @cjr, @jesseholcomb, @niemanlab, @thelocalnewslab and @towcenter
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Center for Media Engagement experiments: readers are more likely to click on links with images, links at the end of an article, and links to related content — Are you more likely to click here? — ....................................... ........................................ ...............over here?
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Center for Media Engagement, @niemanlab, @niemanlab and @taliastroud
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
SEC filing: CBS has received subpoenas from New York city and state officials regarding reports of sexual misconduct by former chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves — CBS Corp. is facing investigations by city and state officials in New York stemming from the reports of alleged sexual misconduct …
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@moryan, Broadcasting & Cable, Splinter and The Wrap
Aisha Hassan / Quartz:
Spotify confirms test where it sent emails to some of its Premium for Family users asking them to prove their home address via GPS or lose access to the plan — Spotify recently sent an email to some of its “Premium for Family” account users in the US that asked them to confirm their home address through GPS data.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Print readers don't migrate online and read much more content than online ones, according to a study of The Independent's audience after it went online-only — A new study of The Independent's 2016 shift to online-only finds that its print readership didn't move to digital when the newspaper did.
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@markberman, Publishers Weekly and Aron Pilhofer
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
A look at Spokane's free weekly, the Inlander, which has survived independently for 25 years by focusing on local stories and being wary of expansion — This originally appeared in Local Edition, our newsletter following the digital transformation of local news. Want to be part of the conversation?
Bloomberg:
Profile of Bytedance, a China-based social news and video startup that may soon surpass Uber in valuation if rumored $1.5B SoftBank investment at $75B closes — - Bytedance's said to be valued at over $75 billion in new round — SoftBank is said to plan an investment of about $1.5 billion
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@wsj, Forbes, New York Times, South China Morning Post and Yahoo! Finance, more at Techmeme »
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Interview with Ben Smith of BuzzFeed News on Facebook's reckoning with free speech, business models, and the shift from social video to long-form video content — This Q&A with BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith appears in the latest issue of Digiday magazine, a quarterly publication that is part of Digiday+.
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@seangriffey, @rasmus_kleis and @digiday
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Texas Tribune's Evan Smith and Rodney Gibbs on making the outlet sustainable: multiple revenue sources, non-partisan coverage, welcoming risk, and more — The Texas Tribune came into business to solve a problem: the insufficient coverage of public policy and politics in Texas.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Murdochs' compensation for fiscal year soars with Disney deal; $49.2M for Rupert, up 68% YoY, $50.7M for Lachlan, up 146%, $50.3M for James, up 148% — The entertainment conglomerate, which has agreed to sell large parts to Walt Disney for $71.3 billion, shows increased stock awards …
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