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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 …
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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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
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 …
Discussion:
Latest Streaming & …, Thanks:@thestreamable
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, @johnanzo, @pewresearch, @grieco001, @shannimcg 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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@solomonmg, @jgksf, @towcenter and @ndiakopoulos
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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@mattrosoff
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.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Cleveland.com tests a $3.99/mo service that gives readers direct texts from reporters; ~1,200 people signed up for a free trial, and a “few hundred” are paying — “Never too early for this game: How many NFL Draft picks will Ohio State have next season?
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American Press Institute
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 …
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@pmontoro, @brandonstosuy, @noiseymusic and @tinymediaempire
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
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.
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Deadline and Multichannel News
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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Reuters, @thebauminator and @jank0