Mediagazer: 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 (Jason Gurwin/The Streamable)

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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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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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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: @towcenter and @ndiakopoulos

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.

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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.

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Inman, Motley Fool, France 24, @johnwilson, NEWS.com.au, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

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 …

Discussion: MediaPost, @niemanlab, World News Publishing Focus …, Editor & Publisher and What's New in Publishing

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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Stewart Clarke / Variety:

Netflix publishes its first top-10 lists of most-watched content on its platform in the UK, says it will start posting the lists every week in the country — Netflix took a step toward greater transparency Thursday, at least in the U.K., by publishing its first top-10 lists of most-watched content …

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