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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologizes to the LGBTQ community, says that demonetizing but leaving Steven Crowder's channel on the platform was the right decision — ‘Context really, really matters’ — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is apologizing to the LGBTQ community in the wake …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Viacom's BET Networks is preparing to launch a streaming-video service with Tyler Perry this fall called BET+, directed at African-American audiences — New service, BET+, to include original movies, TV shows alongside content from other Viacom channels
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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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Brian Resnick / Vox:
How private industry dominates and profits massively from academic publishing, and how librarians, academics, and pirates are trying to regain control — How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls. — The 27,500 scientists who work …
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Casey Sullivan / Business Insider:
Interview with veteran journalist Ken Auletta on his forthcoming book on Harvey Weinstein, the reporting process, his career regrets, and more — - Biographer Ken Auletta discussed his upcoming book on Harvey Weinstein in a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider.
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO cancels Vice News Tonight; Vice news chief and architect of that show, Josh Tyrangiel, to depart, as Vice hires Jesse Angelo to oversee news, TV, digital — Former New York Post publisher Jesse Angelo is joining Vice to oversee the news, digital and television divisions.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Profile of Bustle founder Bryan Goldberg, who says he wants the new Gawker, launching this fall, to publish deeply reported long-form journalism — One day in 2013, Rachel Sklar, the feminist writer and activist, saw something online that set her off. A 30-year-old media entrepreneur named …
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The Daily Beast:
Documents show ThinkProgress is looking at a $3M budget deficit for 2019; source: the site is in a state of slow attrition, with 5+ staffers leaving this year — The outlet has lost five staffers in 2019 and is looking at a $3 million gap between revenue and expenses.
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