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Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?:
Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet — Around the world, news industry trade associations are corruptly cashing in their political capital — …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The newspaper industry doesn't need a special antitrust exemption to help it compete with Google, Facebook; the papers are largely to blame for their downfall — Jack Shafer is Politico's senior media writer. — The newspaper industry has crawled up Capitol Hill once again to beg …
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Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin:
[Thread] News Media Alliance study relies on an offhand comment Marissa Mayer made in 2008 to extrapolate how much money Google has made from news publishers
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
At US House hearings on Tuesday, newspaper lobbyists will pitch the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act to let pubs jointly negotiate with big tech
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Reason, The Week, @jbenton and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
News Media Alliance study, to be given to US House ahead of hearings, claims Google made $4.7B from the work of news publishers in 2018 via search, Google News
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
NYT says it will stop publishing political cartoons in its international edition starting July 1, has been considering its decision for more than a year — A month and a half after The New York Times errantly published an anti-Semitic cartoon in its international edition …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Digiday Media adds a third brand, Modern Retail, after the launch of Glossy in 2016; subscription revenue for the company is projected to reach $2M+ in 2019 — Digiday Media, the eleven-year old digital media trade publication, is adding a third brand called “Modern Retail,” …
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Digiday, @bmorrissey and @hilarymilnes
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
In the US, NPR is the only major media outlet with a full-time public editor; CJR announces appointment of four public editors for NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, and CNN — Last week at Columbia, CJR hosted more than three dozen public editors from around the world, gathered together for their annual meeting.
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@gabrielsnyder, @meredithshiner, @nikkiusher, @mantzarlis, @digiphile, @emilyctamkin and @robinhenig
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Facebook has quietly made changes to limit Graph Search over the weekend, following privacy scandals, says it will work with researchers affected by the changes — Facebook's Graph Search allowed anyone to search a wealth of public data on Facebook in very specific ways …
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BuzzFeed News, TechCrunch, @cward1e, @josephfcox, @wongmjane and @eliothiggins, more at Techmeme »
Mollie Leavitt / The Idea:
Interview with Washington Post editors on their new travel vertical, By The Way, which is launching on June 18 for people who want to “feel like a local” — We spoke with Amanda Finnegan and Emilio Garcia-Ruiz from The Washington Post about By The Way, a new travel product the Post is launching on June 18.
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Sources: Zuckerberg contacted Pelosi to discuss viral misinformation, but she, frustrated by how Facebook handled a manipulated video of her, has not engaged — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg contacted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in recent weeks to discuss …
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Matthew Gault / VICE:
InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie $15,000 in a copyright settlement after using the cartoon on merch — Pepe the Frog will no longer face Alex Jones in court. — Jones and his lawyers have settled with Pepe creator Matt Furie. Furie sued Jones for copyright infringement …
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The Daily Beast, New York Times, @elizabcking, UPROXX, @egavactip, Gizmodo, The Stranger, Engadget, The Hill, The Daily Dot, Hollywood Reporter and Alex Jones' Infowars
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Artists are gaming Billboard charts by including free downloads of albums with concert tickets and merch; Billboard plans to tighten bundling rules this year — About half the 39 titles that topped the charts last year were sold as part of ticket or merchandise “bundles.”
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The Independent, @nytimes, Page Six, PAPER, Music Business Worldwide and VICE
Marc Bennetts / The Guardian:
After public outcry, Russian police drop drug charges against journalist Ivan Golunov, say he will be released from house arrest later on Tuesday — Anti-corruption reporter will not face drugs charges because of lack of evidence — Russian police have dropped all charges of drug dealing …
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Press Gazette, The Independent, Financial Times, The Moscow Times, @tessaszy, @bbcstever and @miriamelder
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Seattle-based Glow launches, in beta, its mobile-first podcast monetization platform which enables podcasters to turn listeners into subscribers — It's a common problem for podcasters: you've got a passionate, loyal audience, but at a time when it seems everyone is producing an audio show …
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