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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Should Gannett and GateHouse merge, the resulting company would own one in six US newspapers and have increasingly regionalized reporting and business functions — A combined company would own 1 of every 6 daily newspapers in America — and a little more breathing room.
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Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu:
Internal memo: GateHouse Media in New England will merge 50 small weekly papers into 18 new regional weeklies — Internal memo reveals that @GateHouse_Media New England will merge 50 small weekly papers into 18 new regional weeklies. https://docs.google.com/...
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@dankennedy_nu, @bosbizdon, @bosbizdon, @ehernandez, @colinsteele, @jbenton, @colinsteele and @ko_reporter
Megan Graham / CNBC:
Amazon to buy Sizmek's Ad Server and Dynamic Creative Optimization units after the adtech company filed for Chapter 11 in March — KEY POINTS — Sizmek Ad Server and Sizmek DCO will operate separately from Amazon Advertising for the time being, Amazon said.
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Amazon Advertising, Adweek, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Business Insider and Chain Store Age
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk:
[Thread] Despite policies against harassment, YouTube lets Steve Crowder videos stay up, with repeated attacks on Carlos Maza's sexual orientation and ethnicity — So, I have pretty thick skin when it comes to online harassment, but something has been really bothering me.
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube is investigating flagged Steven Crowder videos after Vox's Carlos Maza shared Crowder's homophobic and racist comments about Maza in a Twitter thread — Carlos Maza says this has been happening for years — A tweet thread from Vox host Carlos Maza outlining several instances …
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@gaywonk, @gaywonk, Newsweek, @loudmouthjulia and @chescaleigh
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Study on behavioral ad targeting finds that publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn't — Finding could affect where publishers line up in brewing privacy battles — Are creepy advertisements really necessary to support the free web?
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TechCrunch, Fast Company, MediaPost, @admonstergavin, @antoniogm, @antoniogm, @antoniogm, @noahpinion, @robpegoraro, @realhamed, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Marketing Dive, @jason_kint and @profcarroll, Thanks:@beet_tv
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: NYT “prefers” its reporters not appear on cable news shows that it perceives as too partisan, including Rachel Maddow's and Don Lemon's — The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.” Dean Baquet “thinks it's a real issue.”
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Hollywood Reporter:
Otter Media gets folded into WarnerMedia Entertainment, with Otter CEO Tony Goncalves reporting to Bob Greenblatt and leading work on a streaming service for Q4 — CEO Tony Goncalves will lead the product and development team of the direct-to-consumer service, reporting to Bob Greenblatt.
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Variety, The Streamable, Deadline and @xpangler
Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott:
Report: Spotify is working on a new “Social Listening” feature that allows users to listen along with their friends and add songs to a shared queue — Spotify is taking its Spotify Connect features to the next level with social integration. The company is working …
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Hannah Ritchie / Our World in Data:
Study comparing causes of death in US with Google searches and NYT/Guardian coverage finds that terrorism and homicide are vastly overrepresented in the media — Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics.
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Nieman Lab, @dancow, @dancow, @derekwillis, @dkthomp, @elipariser and @hannahritchie02
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Russian distributors cut about 5 minutes from the Elton John biopic Rocketman, citing law against “homosexual propaganda”; John and filmmakers condemn the cuts — Elton John biopic's gay sex and kissing footage edited out in effort to play down singer's sexuality
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The Wrap, /Film, Variety, The Mary Sue, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing to pay $56M cash dividend to shareholders, shrinking its cash balance to ~$25M, reducing its appeal to buyers and its ability to acquire — Printing of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, at Chicago Tribune Freedom Center, at 560 W. Grand Ave., in Chicago on Monday May 16, 2016.
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