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Simon Lewis / Reuters:
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been freed from prison after being jailed in Myanmar for more than 500 days — Simon Lewis, Shoon Naing — YANGON (Reuters) - Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free …
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Sources: Amazon in talks with big US publishers about paying them to expand internationally so it can reach more shoppers with its affiliate business — Big US publishers already make money from Amazon's “affiliate” business. Amazon wants them to make more, and may pay them upfront.
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Emily Nussbaum / New Yorker:
CBS censored a cartoon in CBS All Access' The Good Fight; writer said the network standards division was concerned the cartoon would endanger CBS execs in China — Last Thursday, fans of “The Good Fight”—the darkly funny Trump-era spinoff of “The Good Wife,” created by the married showrunners Robert …
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the investments Condé Nast-owner Advance Publications is making to diversify away from its media holdings as it embarks on a $10B shopping spree — Advance Publications Inc., owner of the Condé Nast magazine empire and metropolitan newspapers, is on a $10 billion …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Rolling Stone will begin publishing its own music charts, updated daily, beginning next Monday, in a challenge to Billboard — Mini media mogul Jay Penske is pushing into territory Billboard has held since the 1940s. But is the music world ready to switch?
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Caroline Crampton / Nieman Lab:
Luminary says it will allow podcasters to include links in their show notes, after previously removing them for “security” reasons — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 208, published May 7, 2019. — Luminary cleans up its show notes links situation.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Podfund, launching today, is making one-time investments in podcasts in exchange for a share of their revenue; the company raised $2.3M in its seed round — In exchange for part of their yearly revenue — The podcast industry is growing, but independent creators can still have a hard time making money.
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Deadline:
More than 100 CNN employees accept voluntary buyouts amid company-wide WarnerMedia restructuring as AT&T seeks to reduce its debt, which reached $170B in 2018 — CNN is the latest division of AT&T's WarnerMedia to feel the effects of company-wide restructuring, with voluntary buyouts …
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
While social media platforms, as private entities, aren't bound by First Amendment guarantees, their self-descriptions as public squares creates confusion — The First Amendment doesn't say you can tweet whatever you want. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Richland Source, a six-year-old digital news outlet in Ohio, is now automating high school sports articles and trying to expand its tech to other newsrooms — In the robots-are-coming-for-journalism world, it's usually big news organizations like The Washington Post or The Associated Press experimenting with automating their articles.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Search will get the Full Coverage feature from Google News, and soon be able to index and surface podcast content that can be listened to in web results — Google Search is getting an upgrade with better news coverage and now, podcast indexing. At the company's developer conference Google …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
CEO pay in 2018 stayed healthy at public newspaper companies: $6.1M for NYT's Mark Thompson, $5.3M for Gannett's Bob Dickey, $2.9M for McClatchy's Craig Forman — Million-dollar payouts common to news CEOs despite layoffs, cutbacks and stagnant salaries on the ground
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