Mediagazer: Legacy media and native streamers should focus on live news because now, as before, it will help attract and retain subscribers though it can be controversial (Ed O'Keefe/Shorenstein Center)

11:55 AM ET, April 30, 2019

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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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Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
YouTube gets exclusive rights to stream 13 MLB games in the 2nd half of the season in the US and Canada on MLB's YouTube channel and a new YouTube TV channel

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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

On paid email newsletter platforms, small audiences are translating to dollars for writers, such as on Substack, where the 12 top earners make $160K+ on average — As writers gravitate toward paid email newsletters, small audiences translate to meaningful dollars.

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Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:

At NewFronts, The New York Times says The Daily podcast has reached 2M listeners per day, talks ad targets, smart speakers, and its upcoming food festival — The New York Times announced new ad target offerings and events, as well as an emphasis on its TV-film commitment at its NewFront this morning.

Discussion: WWD

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

ESPN announces plans to shut down ESPN The Magazine in September after 21 years; the company is considering publishing standalone print issues — ESPN, the sports-media giant with an influence that extends across several types of media, is getting out of one particular venue: print.

Discussion: The Spun, Sports Business Daily and The Big Lead

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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Ed O'Keefe / Shorenstein Center:

Legacy media and native streamers should focus on live news because now, as before, it will help attract and retain subscribers though it can be controversial — Searching for a way for streaming to save the news (and for the the news to save streaming) — Additional Research & Interviews: Andrew J. Zucker

Discussion: @aobaoill

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 (

Discussion: @alexeheath, @hkanji, @mathewi, @hardcorevalue, @yahoofinance, @zooko, @mikeisaac, Business Insider and Beyond Search

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

New York Times ends relationship with CartoonArts, the cartoon syndication service that supplied the anti-Semitic cartoon — A ‘Times’ spokesperson told The Daily Beast exclusively about the paper's decision to stop using syndicated cartoons, including those from the syndicator of the offensive cartoon.

Discussion: Poynter, Newser, Breitbart, New York Post, New York Times and The Daily Caller

David Uberti / 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 …

Discussion: @jason_koebler, @viacristiano, @caseynewton and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Viacom to launch 14 free, ad-supported channels on Pluto TV on May 1 with content from BET, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and MTV — - Twitter Expands Live-Streaming Video Lineup, Sets Content Deals With Viacom, ESPN, Live Nation, Univision, and More — For Viacom, the future of television has an increasingly online sheen.

Discussion: Beet.TV, Deadline, TechCrunch, NickALive!, MediaPost, Adweek, The Wrap and Broadcasting & Cable

Eben Novy-Williams / Bloomberg:

FanDuel to be the first sports betting operator in the US to offer live-sports broadcasts alongside betting odds on its website and mobile app — - Website, app to provide live soccer, tennis from Sportradar — Operator bets games alongside odds will spur more gambling

Discussion: @thefixisintuohy

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.

Discussion: Fast Company, @jbenton, @byrosenberg, @byrosenberg, Motherboard, Business Insider, @stephmbuck, @samanthaculp, @vectorpoem, @andrewkragie, @michaelbarthel and The Loop, more at Techmeme »

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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

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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
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Bloomberg:
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Nic Fildes / Financial Times:
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Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
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