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Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children — Christiane C. didn't think anything of it when her 10-year-old daughter and a friend uploaded a video of themselves playing in a backyard pool.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Many of the top shows and movies on Netflix, produced by upcoming streaming competitors like AT&T and Disney, have licensing rights locked in for years to come — Streaming service has many programs locked up for years to come — Hollywood studios say they're breaking up with Netflix.
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@lucas_shaw, Engadget, @entstrategyguy, @basche42, IndieWire, @stevekovach, @lucas_shaw, @conroyforreal and BGR
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Pricing WarnerMedia's streaming service is complicated by HBO's $15/month price: it's double Disney's, but lowering it threatens revenue from cable partners — With its acquisition of Time Warner last year, AT&T was on its way toward creating a streaming service that will one day be the exclusive online home …
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@edmundlee, Thanks:@beet_tv
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Profile of HitRecord, a GitHub-like collaborative media platform cofounded by Joseph Gordon-Levitt that has paid out $3M+ to content contributors since 2010 — HitRecord is a production company transitioning into a tech platform. We caught up with cofounders Jared Geller and Joseph Gordon-Levitt …
Danya Henninger / Billy Penn:
As part of a major rebranding, Philadelphia Media Network drops Philly.com domain and now redirects its readers to Inquirer.com — On the eve of its 190th birthday, the region's largest newspaper is making a huge online change. — After more than two decades, the Philly.com era ends this weekend.
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@phillydesign, American Press Institute, @chanders, @ckrewson, @migold, @scenesallard, @joannemclaugh, @bydanielvictor, @dan_ua and @chanders
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Interview with CBS News president Susan Zirinsky on her start at CBS, how the position of women has evolved, and how fear makes her a better executive — Network's first female news president talks MeToo, Deep Throat and her time on the frontlines — Despite being on the frontlines …
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@jpoggi
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ESPN to test an NBA game stream aimed just at teens, the latest in a number of alternate viewing experiences the network has been testing for several months — Senior TV Editor @https://twitter.com/bristei FOLLOW — When Katie Nolan hosts an ESPN telecast of Game 2 of the NBA Finals this Sunday …
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@ben_espn, @trentonhassles, @bristei, @bristei, @katienolangifs, @bristei, @jeffmacke and Awful Announcing
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
As Hollywood talent agency Endeavor reportedly plans its IPO, its strategy garners scrutiny after piling up debt to buy 20+ disparate assets like its UFC stake — Emanuel built a great talent agency—and then bought a jumble of assets mostly with other people's money.
Nicolas Kristen / Global Editors Network:
Interview with Jeff Kofman, CEO of automated transcription service company Trint and an Emmy award-winning journalist, on how AI can empower newsrooms and more — The voice economy has found its way into newsrooms, changing the workflow of journalists and liberating time to focus on their reporting.
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: studio partners will be able to license Vudu originals in international markets and put content on Vudu, non-exclusively, for free — Walmart might have scuttled its plans to build a subscription video streaming service catering to the “heartland,” but the company still has streaming video ambitions.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
A review of The Weekly, the series about NYT's reporting, debuting Sunday on FX and then on Hulu: it's smart TV, but runs the risk of feeling self-serving — The New York Times re-enters the television racket this weekend with a new series — The Weekly — debuting on Sunday.
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Multichannel News, @jackmjenkins, New York Times and @jayrosen_nyu
Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
Sportswriting in UK revolves around embargoes, even for comments made by players after games, a phenomenon some say is based on extreme lack of access — British journalists chronicling mega-events like the Champions League are often operating on a timeline out of their control …
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@grantwahl, @kenearlys, @singaporestevem and @kdschlewitz