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Viacom says Pluto TV, its free ad-supported streaming service, has 16M MAU, up from 12M in Jan. when it was acquired, plans to launch in Latin America in 2019 — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links.
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Wall Street Journal, Variety, @sportstvratings, @drewfitzgerald, MediaPost, TVWeek.com and NBC News
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Roku says it doesn't have any plans to create its own content for its free ad-supported network, The Roku Channel — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links. — After reaching 10,000 free ad-supported movies and TV episodes …
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Pew survey finds that 78% of Americans have never spoken with a local journalist; those who have are likelier to be older, college-educated, and white — Seventy-eight percent of Americans have never spoken with a local journalist at all, according to data highlighted by Pew on Friday …
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Nieman Lab, Pew Research Center, @johnanzo, @pewresearch, @grieco001, @shannimcg and @grahambrewer


Police and FBI raided the home and office of journalist Bryan Carmody, handcuffing him, in a probe into a leaked police report about a public defender's death — Police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist Friday morning. — Police raided the home and office …
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San Francisco Chronicle, @darwinbondgraha, @oakmorr, @mgafni, @treekisser, @coreypein, @susie_c, @sfchronicle, @bryanccarmody, @demianbulwa, @wendyfry_ and @matthewkeyslive


Study: more than half of the impressions in the Google search results' Top Stories box go to 20 news sources; CNN, NYT, and WaPo accounted for 23% of them — In the last week of April, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.ly came from search engines.
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@solomonmg, @jgksf, @towcenter and @ndiakopoulos


NYT climate reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis details how she's encountered racism more frequently in journalism than in her previous professions — I have experienced racism in the newsroom. This hasn't surprised me. I have been black my whole life, so racism has been a fixture of my whole life.


A history of Book Your Own Fuckin' Life, a guide for touring punk bands that was published yearly by punk zine Maximum RocknRoll, which closed in January — When Maximum Rocknroll announced in mid-January that it would cease publication of its print zine following the May issue …
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@pmontoro, @brandonstosuy, @noiseymusic and @tinymediaempire


TiVo announces plans to split its product division and its intellectual property licensing businesses to increase odds of finding a buyer — Company says separating units will help odds of finding a buyer — As expected, TiVo has announced plans to split its IP licensing and video products businesses …
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Reuters, @thebauminator and @jank0, more at Techmeme »


Hollywood execs Jeff Sagansky and Harry Sloan launch their new $400M public acquisition vehicle, after raising $1.6B in their four previous acquisition outfits — Veteran Hollywood executives Jeff Sagansky and Harry Sloan are launching Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp. with a $400 million initial public offering.
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Deadline and Multichannel News


How YouTube's Content ID system lets rightsholders hijack global revenue from legit videos covered by fair use, and what one channel CEO says needs to change — With over 20 million subscribers of its main channel and over 30 million over its entire network, WatchMojo is one of the largest players on YouTube.
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@annemariebridy, Thanks:@ashkan


A look at The Prepared, a year-old site with reviews and advice for preppers, which makes money from affiliate links and has attracted some angel funding — A little over two years ago, The New Yorker ran a story about the survivalism craze sweeping Silicon Valley.

Ad spending on private marketplaces will overtake open exchanges in 2020 as both publishers and advertisers seek more control of context in which ads appear — Advertiser investment in private marketplaces (PMPs) has risen over the past several years thanks to ongoing issues of ad quality …