Mediagazer: Study estimates Netflix could be losing $192M/month from people who freeload by account sharing, with Amazon losing $45M/month and Hulu losing $40M/month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:

Ev Williams announces that all Medium paywalled stories will be free for readers that come to the site from Twitter — If you're not the paying sort, Medium has a mile-wide new hole in its paywall that might interest you. (But really, you should be the paying sort.)

Discussion: @ev, @bmccandless, @ev, @sdkstl, @sdkstl and @chronotope

Mike Allen / Axios:

Jonah Goldberg to leave the National Review and partner with ex-Weekly Standard EIC Steve Hayes to launch conservative media company, starting with newsletters — Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company with Steve Hayes …

Discussion: @dankennedy_nu, @jpodhoretz and @mattyglesias

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Media advocacy group Free Press has proposed a tax on targeted advertising to fund noncommercial journalism and support new news distribution models — Facebook and Google aren't going to stop targeting ads to Internet users, and advertisers aren't likely to stop loving the data …

Discussion: Free Press, @joeycoleman, @freepress, @utknightcenter, @rispolimike, @vincecathomas, @steve_katz, @niemanlab and @niemanlab

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Source: Disney is in talks with AT&T to acquire WarnerMedia's 10% stake in Hulu to add to its existing 30% stake and the 30% Disney gains from 20th Century Fox — Disney wants to get even more control over Hulu: The company is in active discussions with AT&T to acquire the 10% stake …

Discussion: Engadget, Tubefilter, The Verge, /Film, Fortune and Multichannel News

Discussion: The Big Lead, @jbflint, @eriqgardner, @pareene, @jbflint, The Hill, @billsimmons, @thrmattbelloni, Deadline, New York Times, Fortune, TechCrunch, Observer and Wall Street Journal

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

UK charities declare the Momo challenge a hoax after the media publishes hundreds of articles on it, causing a moral panic despite absence of evidence — Groups say no evidence yet of self-harm from craze, but resulting hysteria poses a risk — It is the most talked about viral scare story …

Discussion: One Man & His Blog, The Guardian, BBC, @parkermolloy, The Independent, @jimwaterson, @dralangreene, @mtrc, @vickiturk, Metro.co.uk and Snopes.com

Variety:

Brazil's antitrust regulators have approved Disney's purchase of 21st Century Fox assets on condition it sells the Fox Sports channel and related sports rights — Disney took a big step closer to completing its $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox with Brazil's conditional approval of the deal Wednesday.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter, Fantha Tracks, Comic Book, Reuters, Los Angeles Business Journal, Los Angeles Times, ScreenRant and Deadline

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Study estimates Netflix could be losing $192M/month from people who freeload by account sharing, with Amazon losing $45M/month and Hulu losing $40M/month — As many as 1 in 5 people today are mooching off of someone else's account when streaming video from Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Video, according to a new study from CordCutting.com.

Discussion: Fast Company

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

FTC settles with Musical.ly, now TikTok, for $5.7M, over the app's violation of US child privacy laws; TikTok's app updates with a new UX for users under 13 — A significant FTC ruling issued today will see video app TikTok fined $5.7 million for violating U.S. children's privacy laws …

Luis Paez-Pumar / Deadspin:

SB Nation Editor-in-Chief Elena Bergeron is stepping down on March 15 with Executive Producer Ryan Nanni filling in in the interim — After almost two years as SB Nation editor-in-chief, Elena Bergeron is stepping down from the role, according to a company-wide email sent out on Wednesday by Vox Media publisher Melissa Bell.

Discussion: Awful Announcing

James Mattone / Thinknum Media:

The NBA's G League boasted an average Twitch stream of 8,300+ concurrent viewers in first two weekends of its 2019 season, beating streams of NBA's videogames — For years, NBA's G League, the minor leagues of basketball, was lost in the shuffle of NBA's massive television deals.

France 24:

Police arrest a dozen journalists at an Algiers rally, attended by ~100 journalists, against alleged censorship of protests against fifth term for president — Algerian police arrested a dozen journalists participating in a rally Thursday against alleged censorship of coverage of protests …

Thomson Reuters:

Reuters expands its video and photo sports offerings through partnerships with the Players' Tribune, AFLO, Panoramic, Sporting Images, and MB Media — Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news provider, announced today that it is further expanding its sports content offering …