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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 …
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 …
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 …
Thanks:@thestreamable
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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, @drewfitzgerald, @sportstvratings, MediaPost, TVWeek.com, Variety and NBC News
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?
Discussion:
American Press Institute
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
As movie and TV adaptations fueled an $80M YoY growth in comic book sales in 2018, smaller comic book publishers are adopting new business strategies to compete — A merger of two independents, Lion Forge and Oni Press, is the latest example of new strategies that are shaping the business.
Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
International correspondents in Venezuela say that the only way to cover the country is to be on the ground as polarization makes local experts unreliable — Last Tuesday, in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader in the country, called for a military uprising …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
The town of Longmont, CO, is debating whether to add a tax to fund a public library that might include an editorially independent local newsroom — A late-night debate in a sparsely attended city council chamber in Colorado on Tuesday opened a new front in the national conversation about how to sustain local news.
Discussion:
@fourthestateorg and @mathewi
Parker Molloy / Columbia Journalism Review:
Media treatment of intersex and transgender athletes primes readers to think their wins are unjust by often conflating the two and framing them as unbeatable — South African track and field superstar Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion in the women's 800-meter.
Discussion:
Media Matters for America
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 …
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, @grieco001, @shannimcg, @pewresearch 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:
@solomonmg, @jgksf, @towcenter and @ndiakopoulos
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