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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Facebook to give 60+ academics around the world access to its data for projects on news polarization, disinformation, and more — Facebook knows it screwed up, is trying to do better, and is spending some of this year actually listening to critiques and suggestions (supposedly).
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Amazon doorbell company Ring searches for an editor to deliver breaking crime alerts; local TV has already led Americans to overestimate crime rates — When news organizations think about competition from tech companies, it's usually in terms of the audience's attention and advertisers' dollars.
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@jbenton, @byrosenberg, @byrosenberg, @stephmbuck, @andrewkragie, @michaelbarthel, @samanthaculp and @vectorpoem
Spotify:
Spotify reports Q1 revenue of €1.5B, up 33% YoY, reduces net loss to €142M, says it has 217M MAUs, up 26% YoY, with 100M premium subscribers, up 32% YoY — Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) today reported financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2019 ending March 31, 2019.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Walmart plans to create at least 6 original Vudu shows over the next year, which will make money by advertising products, testing “shoppable content” — - Decade-old streaming service plans to tout new ad technology — Walmart Inc. already sells more TVs than anyone.
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Streaming Observer, @lucas_shaw, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Forbes and Engadget, Thanks:@lucas_shaw
Roger Parloff / Yahoo Finance:
Profile of Chris Cox, who, despite being chief product officer for years, never drew the attention for Facebook's scandals that Zuckerberg and Sandberg did — In late 2003, during his senior year at Stanford, Chris Cox, the future Chief Product Officer at Facebook (
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Business Insider and Beyond Search, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter announces live streaming content deals with Univision, WSJ, and Time and new initiatives with previous partners including Viacom, the NFL, and ESPN — - Twitter Expands Live-Streaming Video Lineup, Sets Content Deals With Viacom, ESPN, Live Nation, Univision, and More
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The Wrap, Deadline, TechCrunch and Tubefilter, more at Techmeme »
VICE News:
Fox News dominates Facebook with 80% more engagement than CNN through a mix of traditional news and viral content, despite having 17M followers vs CNN's 31M — By the time Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference landed, the battle to spin it had already begun, with politicians …
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@jason_koebler, @viacristiano, @caseynewton, Media Matters for America and Slate
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Royalties from digital services to UK copyright society PRS for Music rose 17% to £145.7M in 2018, the first year of its licensing deal with Facebook — British collecting society PRS for Music saw its collections grow by 4.4% to £746m (around $965.4m) in 2018, setting a new record.
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The Guardian, NME and Music Business Worldwide
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Survey of 1,018 US journalists: only ~15% say they have been trained on how to best report on misinformation, while 80%+ have been duped by false info online — The spread of misinformation has changed the way that social media users interact with news. — A study published in Science Advances …
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@poynter
IAB:
Advertisers to spend $18M on digital video, up nearly 25% YoY; half to be spent through programmatic buys, 70% of digital video advertisers use influencers — Advertisers report that they expect, on average, to spend $18M in 2019 in digital video—nearly 25% over last year.
The Mozilla Blog:
Facebook's Ad Archive API is criticized for lacking info on ad targeting criteria and being limited to keyword searches, preventing a comprehensive look at ads — Facebook's tool meets only two of experts' five minimum standards. That's a failing grade. — Facebook pledged in February …
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, @profcarroll, Lifehacker, @mozilla, The Mac Observer, @kevinroose and @jmgrygiel, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
Inside Lou Dobbs' TV career and his unusual relationship with Donald Trump as he helps shape the President's border policy — One day in mid-March, President Trump gathered his top economic team at the White House to get its read on the state of the nation's financial health.
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Nico Lang / Columbia Journalism Review:
Samantha Allen, a national reporter for The Daily Beast, talks about her book Real Queer America, which profiles LGBTQ lives in red states — Samantha Allen, America's premier chronicler of LGBTQ life in red states, chooses to meet me at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood—a gay themed burger chain committed to queering Americana.
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