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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Survey finds 16% of US respondents pay for news, and 11% on average in nine other countries, but most people who do pay for news only have one subscription — Publishers worldwide are installing paywalls, but many — even most — won't succeed. Private WhatsApp groups are becoming the default …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Meeker's chart on time spent and ad spend across media segments shows print took 7% of spending in 2018 and just 3% of attention, implying it will fall further — It's an annual moment of print realism here at Nieman Lab: the posting of the attention/advertising slide from Mary Meeker's state-of-the-Internet slide deck.
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Radio & Television …, The Drum, @rubinafillion, Adweek, Boing Boing, @marklittlenews, @jackshafer, Marketing Dive, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Fortune, ZDNet and Vox
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Rachel Maddow will be a co-moderator for the first primary debate, unusual for an opinion journalist especially given the DNC's decision to bar Fox from hosting — The first debate of the Democratic presidential primary will be moderated by the news anchors Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt …
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@scotbertram, @grynbaum, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone, @daviduberti, @jayrosen_nyu, NBC News, Newser and Fox News
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
A federal judge has awarded radio host Dean Obeidallah $4.1M in a defamation lawsuit against Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin — Dean Obeidallah was falsely accused of being behind a terrorist attack by The Daily Stormer, whose on-the-run founder just lost big in court.
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Gizmodo, Associated Press, @justinjm1 and @noahshachtman
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Adjust, which provides mobile ad measurement and fraud prevention tools, raises $227M, bringing its total funding to $250M — Adjust, a leader in mobile measurement and fraud prevention, said it has raised $227 million in a new round of funding. — The round was led by investors Eurazeo Growth …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook says Watch has 140M DAUs who spend at least a minute on the site, announces deals with global publishers and Ad Breaks rollout in five new languages — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — Facebook says its video strategy — to encourage its 2 billion-plus users to watch …
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MediaPost, Ad Age, Adweek and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg:
Private equity firm KKR offers to buy out minority shareholders in Axel Springer, publisher of Business Insider and Bild, in a deal valuing the company at $7.7B — - Buyout of Axel Springer would help CEO's online media push — German publisher issues profit warning alongside KKR offer
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Reuters:
Russian police detain 400+ at a protest calling for punishment of police officers involved in Ivan Golunov's alleged framing, a day after charges were dropped — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained more than 400 people, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny …
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The Guardian, @billbrowder, BBC and The Moscow Times
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Russia's Internal Ministry releases Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov, citing a lack of evidence of a crime and vowing a probe into the officers who detained him
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
PBS CEO says restrictions Apple is placing on third-party analytics for kids' apps will prevent PBS from tracking whether content and game features are working — Onstage at Code Conference 2019, PBS' CEO expressed concerns about a change Apple recently made to kids apps in its App Store.
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Jared Holt / Columbia Journalism Review:
How sites including RedState and Breitbart amplified unsupported claims of nefarious ties between antifascists and reporters who cover the far-right — Last month, a number of media outlets ran stories touting claims from a study posted on Twitter that alleged nefarious connections between …
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@gitagovinda, @heidi_cuda, @adamserwer, @jaredlholt, @jaredlholt, @samthielman, @samthielman, @gitagovinda, @samthielman, @samthielman and @samthielman
Ashley Rodriguez / Business Insider:
After report that shrinking satellite TV giants Dish and DirecTV are open to merging, analysts say regulators may allow it in this competitive video environment — - Major US satellite-TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network are open to a merger, according to Bloomberg.
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Multichannel News
Will Oremus / OneZero:
Tech platforms are poor arbiters of acceptable speech, altering enforcement of already-uneven rules when controversies flare up, but there's no clear fix — For YouTube, Facebook and the rest, if a decision becomes too controversial, change it — acing pressure to ban a hatemonger …
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Advocate, @willoremus, @bergmayer, @willoremus, @willoremus, @willoremus, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller, The Hill and USA Today
Ben Miller / New York Business Journal:
Media network TheMaven agrees to pay $16.5M to acquire financial news site TheStreet, which was founded in 1996 by CNBC host Jim Cramer — Financial information company TheStreet Inc. said it's been purchased for $16.5 million. New York-based TheStreet (Nasdaq: TST) said the purchaser is TheMaven Inc. …
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@_davidelman and PR Newswire
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Fox News commentator Tyrus was kicked off a Fox Nation streaming show, Un-PC, in April after co-host Britt McHenry filed a sexual harassment complaint — Sources confirmed to The Daily Beast that McHenry complained the ex-wrestler sent her multiple unsolicited text messages containing lewd, sexual comments.
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 — A group called the News Media Alliance got the NYT to run a piece last night saying that Google made “$4.7 billion” from the news industry. And now that the study is out, the number appears to be just as shaky as it initially seemed to a few of us. 1/5 https://www.nytimes.com/...
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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
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