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5:30 PM ET, June 3, 2019

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
After complaining about CNN, Trump suggests customers boycott the network's corporate parent, AT&T; source says AT&T executives expected such attacks eventually  —  California (CNN Business)President Trump's years-long effort to punish CNN for its news coverage took a new …
New York Times:
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.
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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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
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
At WWDC, Apple splits iTunes into Podcasts, Music, and TV, announces full-text podcast search, and tools to allow publishers to easily port iOS apps to Mac  —  Apple just finished the annual keynote event at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the two hours each year when Apple tells us …
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Report: US advertisers spent $479.1M on podcasts ads in 2018, up 53% from 2017, and are predicted to spend $678.7M this year  —  U.S. advertisers' spending on podcasts rose 53% in 2018  —  Podcasters continue to find growing interest from marketers, but their growth remains constrained …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Newsletter provider Substack now lets newsletter publishers create public or subscriber-only discussion threads  —  Substack is launching a new feature called “community” — namely, the ability for newsletter publishers to create discussion threads, which can either be open to anyone or limited to subscribers.
Discussion: Substack Blog
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.
Discussion: @digiday
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Strange Attractor
Kelsey Sutton / Adweek:
Nielsen expands its Digital Ad Ratings measurement capabilities on YouTube's mobile app to 26 new markets including Hong Kong, India, Israel, and Puerto Rico  —  Its Digital Ad Ratings will expand to 26 more markets  —  Nielsen's arsenal of measuring tools for YouTube is going global—and mobile.
 
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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
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
In “orphan counties” like Colorado's La Plata, residents don't receive news coverage, sports, or political ads for their own states due to Nielsen designations
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Bob Norman / Columbia Journalism Review:
“Florida Man” stories become one of journalism's darkest and most lucrative cottage industries, overlooking that real humans with serious problems are involved
Rachel Cohen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Credder, a Rotten Tomatoes-like site that uses cheese to rate the credibility of news articles, news outlets, and journalists, launches in public beta
Discussion: Techdirt
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
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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