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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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Wall Street Journal, Variety, @sportstvratings, @drewfitzgerald, MediaPost, TVWeek.com and NBC News
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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.
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@ndiakopoulos, @solomonmg, @jgksf and @towcenter
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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San Francisco Chronicle, @darwinbondgraha, @oakmorr, @mgafni, @treekisser, @coreypein, @susie_c, @bryanccarmody, @wendyfry_ and @matthewkeyslive
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.
Dave McNary / Variety:
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.
Discussion:
Deadline and Multichannel News
Kevin Warwick / VICE:
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
Reuters, @thebauminator and @jank0, more at Techmeme »
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
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
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.
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.
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, Deadline, The Wrap, ThinkProgress, PAPER, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Variety and Deadline
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 …
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