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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Despite a plunge in viewership of US broadcast and cable networks, eMarketer expects overall advance commitments for TV ads to rise 2.4% YoY to $21.25B in 2019 — Analysis: Prognosticators keep calling for TV's demise. Madison Avenue has a different view.
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Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, @mikevanesler, @bristei, @mikeroyce, CNN, @bristei, @bristei, @bristei and @bristei
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Bryan Carmody says SF police raided his home and office instead of targeting other media because he is a freelancer; lawyer: police should have used a subpoena — Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house.
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Los Angeles Times, NPR, @sbnationreports, @postbaron, @jasonkeath, @supermarke, MediaFile, @jpballoujourn1, @pamacious and The San Francisco Examiner
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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, @scottgreenfield, @sesmith, @pgourevitch, @dabeard, @scotthech, @facoalition, @keegan_hamilton, @jesselynradack, @davidgreene, @sfchronicle, @demianbulwa, @bryanccarmody, @matthewkeyslive, @oakmorr, @wendyfry_, @mgafni, @susie_c, @darwinbondgraha, @treekisser and @coreypein
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
New media ventures like Vox are struggling while old media, like NYT, is flourishing because the only disruption in media happened in distribution, not content — KEY POINTS — Old media companies such as Disney and The New York Times have flourished in recent years while new media ventures …
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@jasonabbruzzese, @rafat and @chrisroper
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: Discovery to buy Golf Digest from Condé Nast for $30M; W and Brides remain for sale — Discovery is buying Golf Digest from Condé Nast for an estimated $30 million, expanding its reach beyond its golf-streaming sweet spot, according to sources close to the situation.
Karla Adam / Washington Post:
Sweden reopens rape case against WikiLeaks' Julian Assange after discontinuing the investigation in 2017, seeks extradition — LONDON — Swedish prosecutors are reopening an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. — Speaking Monday at a news conference …
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BuzzFeed, The Wrap, The Guardian, New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, Boing Boing, USA Today and Fox News
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
In an era of information warfare, few newsrooms are prepared to train their reporters on how to keep themselves and their sources safe in cyberspace — In 1970, the Canadian cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan famously predicted that World War III, when it comes, will be …
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@cjr, @cjr, @usprojectcjr and @jafurtado
Politico:
Analysis: from Jan. 1 to Apr. 30, Sanders, Biden, Harris, and Warren accounted for more than half the Democratic primary field's traditional news media mentions — Newspaper headlines and social media mentions are concentrated on just a handful of the 21 contenders for president.
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@markharrisnyc, @tvietor08 and @kaivanshroff
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian streaming service Hotstar, now owned by Disney, claims it set a global record by drawing 18M+ concurrent viewers for the IPL cricket final — Indian video streaming giant Hotstar, owned by Disney, today set a new global benchmark for the number of people an OTT service can draw to a live event.
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@prdyt, more at Techmeme »
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As social media makes talking to reporters riskier, journalists consider ways of making talking to sources less “extractive” by setting expectations and more — “Extractive” is a tough word. “Extractive” evokes strip mining and mountaintop removal, age-old resources being burned for short-lived gains.
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@emgollie, @spj_tweets, Pew Research Center and @brizzyc
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Q&A with Katherine Pope, head of Charter Communications' new original content division, on plans for Spectrum Originals as its first scripted series debuts — A year ago, Charter Communications' new original content division headed by Katherine Pope made its first major programming move …
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
A profile of the nearly century old family-owned daily The Commercial Dispatch of Columbus, MS, which now has 12 editorial staff and a paid circulation of ~13K — As mentioned in the kickoff post in this new “Our Towns” series, anyone who cares about America's civic, cultural …
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@bgrueskin, @jamesfallows and @victoria_cheyne
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