Mediagazer: A look at the Action Network, founded by former ESPN EIC Chad Millman, which focuses on sports gambling, providing scores, news, and more (Tony Rehagen/Columbia Journalism Review)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is developing a paid music service via a new app it expects to debut as early as this fall, mostly in emerging markets — - ByteDance plans to target listeners in emerging markets — Company has already secured rights from Indian record labels

Discussion: Digiday, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Engadget, @singareddynm, Digiday, @venkatananth and @luluyilun, more at Techmeme »

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Study: despite News Feed changes, “junk news” from known sources of disinformation in EU get 1.2x-4x the engagement of professional news sources on Facebook — A study carried out by academics at Oxford University to investigate how junk news is being shared on social media …

Discussion: CNBC, @thegrugq, @polbots, @peterjukes, @peterjukes, @benimmo, The Computational … and @fabiochiusi

Don Seiffert / Boston Business Journal:

Boston Globe digital subscribers surpassed weekday print subs for the first time earlier this year, likely making it the first regional US daily to have done so — The Boston Globe reached a milestone earlier this year when the number of its digital subscribers surpassed …

Discussion: Media Nation, @dskok, @daviduberti and Dan Kennedy

Abbey Crain / al.com:

Alabama Public Television refuses to air an episode of children's animated series “Arthur” that featured a gay wedding; APT has no plans to air it in the future — Alabama Public Television chose not to air PBS's Arthur episode that included a same-sex marriage.

Discussion: The Week, @nycsouthpaw, ScreenRant, @dabeard, The Hill, @aldotcom, Complex, NBC News, @saladinahmed, @thedweck, TVLine and Mediaite

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram quietly overhauls the design of IGTV to have just one central feed, much like TikTok, as it tries to ramp up the app's growth a year after launch — Instagram conquered Stories, but it's losing the battle for the next video formats. TikTok is blowing up with an algorithmically suggested vertical …

Discussion: @joshconstine, 9to5Mac, @joshconstine and Digiday, more at Techmeme »

The Daily Beast:

Sources: Fox News host Pete Hegseth had multiple private conversations with Trump since January, asking him to pardon US servicemen convicted of war crimes — The president isn't just watching the network, he's taking policy advice from its morning hosts. — If the president pardons U.S …

Discussion: @willsommer, New Republic, @chillmage, @thedailybeast, @shaneharris, @kenklippenstein, @heerjeet, Mediaite, Hmm Daily and Slate

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:

Snap says it has appointed Derek Andersen, its VP of finance, as CFO, and Lara Sweet, its chief accounting officer and interim CFO, as chief people officer — Snap has opted to promote two executives internally to its finance and human resources chief roles, as part of a management overhaul …

Discussion: Variety, TechCrunch and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »

Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:

AMC says its movie ticket subscription service, AMC Stubs A-List, now has over 800K members, after adding 200K in 2019 — The mega-movie chain says its program is now the No. 1 movie ticket subscription offering in North America. — AMC Theaters' monthly movie ticket subscription program AMC Stubs …

Discussion: Variety

New York Times:

Analysis: in 2019, Trump has far outspent individual Democratic candidates on Facebook ads, with a total spend of $4.9M, as he returns to his 2016 strategy — President Trump's re-election campaign has spent heavily on Facebook ads, reprising a strategy that was central to his 2016 victory.

Discussion: @blmohr, @juancpedreira, @kelseymsutton and Contemptor

Tony Rehagen / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the Action Network, founded by former ESPN EIC Chad Millman, which focuses on sports gambling, providing scores, news, and more — The casino floor of The Palms, just off The Strip in Las Vegas, is an ecosystem with separate spheres of activity. The pits are filled with tourists jockeying …

Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:

Media Matters report: Fox News' top hosts have made a combined $500K+ from speaking engagements at Republican and conservative groups while at the network — A new study reveals that many of the pro-Trump network's stars, including its ‘hard news’ anchors, have fattened their wallets by speaking at GOP events—an ethical no-no.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, @jordanuhl, @thedailybeast, @ehananoki, @ehananoki, @ehananoki, Scribd and Mediaite

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

EFF launches TOSsed Out, a project to highlight how content moderation by platforms, whether automated or by human intervention, unfairly bans people — San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched TOSsed Out, a project to highlight the vast spectrum of people silenced …

Discussion: @rasmus_kleis, @eff, @jilliancyork, Gizmodo and Boing Boing

Daniel Funke / Poynter:

Analysis of 36 fact-checking outlets finds gender disparity similar to newsrooms: 41% of fact-checkers are women, 71% of fact-checking sites are run by men — Independent fact-checkers are the first line of defense against misinformation. — They debunk fake news stories …

Discussion: @brooklynmarie

Discussion: @fullfact, Tech Digest and Research Live