Mediagazer: Vox Media staffers reached a tentative labor agreement with the online publisher Friday after 29 hours of negotiation and a one-day walkout (Bloomberg)

6:20 PM ET, June 7, 2019

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Vox Media staffers reached a tentative labor agreement with the online publisher Friday after 29 hours of negotiation and a one-day walkout — - Deal follows 14 months of negotiations with management — Hundreds of employees took part in walkout on Thursday

Discussion: @vox_union, @gaywonk, @drvox, @alex_kirshner and Mediaite

David Robb / Deadline:
The 32-member editorial and photo staff of Fast Company ratify their first union contract with WGA East; some staffers will get 26% pay raises

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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Hundreds of Vox Media workers stage a one-day walkout to pressure management to sign a union contract; an editor says SBNation won't cover the NBA finals Game 3

Los Angeles Times:

Some videos intended for anti-racist, educational purposes were removed due to YouTube's new rules, highlighting the weaknesses of algorithmic content removal — YouTube's campaign against hateful and racist videos is claiming some unintended victims: researchers and advocates working to expose racist hatemongers.

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James Walker / Press Gazette:

Mail Online's head of SEO says its search traffic from Google fell by half after an algorithm change on June 3, and the drop was worse in the UK than in the US — Mail Online has seen its traffic from Google halved after an algorithm change, according to its head of search engine optimisation.

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Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot:

Peter Bright, also known as @DrPizza, who was an Ars Technica contributing writer, has been arrested on charges of soliciting sex with children online — Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. — Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online.

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Lauren Hirsch / CNBC:

Activist firm Elliott Management to buy Barnes & Noble for ~$683M including debt; in the past five years, B&N has lost more than $1 billion in market value — KEY POINTS — Activist firm Elliott Management announced Friday it plans to acquire bookseller Barnes & Noble for roughly $683 million, including debt.

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Dutch news aggregator Blendle plans to stop selling individual news articles via micropayments and will focus instead on its premium subscription service — Dutch digital news aggregator Blendle is to stop selling individual news articles for ‘quarters’ and will focus instead on its premium subscription service.

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Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:

Study of 212 leading news organizations in US and Europe finds 69% of newspapers operate some form of online pay model, up just 5.5% in two years — RISJ report found that 69 per cent of US and European newspapers use some form of paywall - but that figure has only risen by 5.5 per cent in two years

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

News UK has asked the staff at The Sun and The Sun on Sunday to volunteer for redundancies, with possible compulsory redundancies later — News Group Newspapers will initially look for voluntary redundancies to make savings — The publisher of the Sun and the Sun on Sunday is launching …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Lucinda Southern / Digiday:

Sports news startup The Athletic plans to expand to the UK, hire a team of ~50 employees by mid-August, will initially focus on Premier League football — Sports subscription publisher The Athletic has pinpointed the U.K. for its first international hub. The direct-to-consumer media company plans …

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Andrew Roth / The Guardian:

Police arrest Ivan Golunov, a Moscow-based journalist for Latvia's Meduza, claiming he was dealing drugs; Meduza execs say he was framed because of his work — Ivan Golunov held in Moscow after police said they found illegal drugs during search — Russian police have arrested …

Discussion: @francescaebel, @ichbinilya, The Moscow Times, @sanhotree, Meduza.io, @meduza_en, BuzzFeed News, Committee to Protect …, @andrew__roth and @penamerican

Aaron Pressman / Fortune:

PwC 2019-2023 forecast: SVOD revenue to rise 64% to $24B annually, revenue for cable/satellite TV will fall 16% to $84B, TV advertising to stay flat at $72B — Streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, and a planned rival from Apple will see their total U.S. revenue jump 64% …

Discussion: BGR

Christopher Tolve / The Drum:

Cybersecurity company Cheq estimates ad fraud at $23B in 2019; World Federation of Advertisers estimates 30% of ads are unseen by customers — Global ad fraud is predicted to cost an unprecedented $23bn this year and could reach $30bn including indirect economic and social costs …

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