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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
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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Matt Lopez / The Wrap:
Sports-centric subscription streaming platform FuboTV to launch free ad-supported streaming service and short-form original content in 2019, says CEO — The sports-centric subscription OTT streamer FuboTV is preparing to launch a free ad-supported streaming service later this year and branch into original content for the first time.
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TechCrunch, The Streamable, Streaming Observer, Awful Announcing, Cord Cutters News and Broadcasting & Cable
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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 and @grahambrewer
Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review:
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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@jgksf, @ndiakopoulos and @towcenter
Kendra Pierre-Louis / The Open Notebook:
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.
Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News:
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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Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:
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.
Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute for Journalism survey finds that the average price for paywalled news is about €14.09 per month in six European countries and the US — Where we saw little to no change was among broadcasters and digital-born news outlets. Just as in 2017, all broadcasters …
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MediaPost, @niemanlab, World News Publishing Focus …, Editor & Publisher and What's New in Publishing
Ross Benes / eMarketer:
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 …
Laura Waxmann / The San Francisco Examiner:
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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Mariam Cheik-Hussein / AdNews:
News Corp posts Q3 profit of $23M versus $1.1B net loss in Q3 2018; WSJ digital-only subscriptions rose 19% YoY to 1.8M with 68% of subscribers digital-only — News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson — News Corp says the success of its digital strategy and book publishing …
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Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Five production companies say they won't film in Georgia to protest a new abortion law; MPAA, representing major studios, says it will wait for court outcomes — David Simon, Nina Jacobson, Mark Duplass and more industry figures have pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists.
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