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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
How editors weighed competing values in deciding to post the photo of drowning victims Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria at the Rio Grande — Editor's note: You can see the photo this column references by scrolling all the way to the end of this story.
Simon Owens / What's New in Publishing:
Bundled news subscriptions struggle because publishers have no incentive to advertise bundles over their own offerings, and bundles have no exclusive content — Earlier this month, a company called Mogul News launched a news app that curates article content from three media outlets: Bloomberg, The Financial Times, and The Economist.
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Christine Fisher / Engadget:
YouTube gives users a “don't recommend channel” option and a way to pick topics of interest for videos showing in Up Next or homepage, now on iOS and Android — No matter how advanced algorithms get, none will understand your YouTube viewing preferences better than you.
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FCC probes whether Sinclair “engaged in misrepresentation” as it sought to buy Tribune Media; probe involves station spinoff plans in Chicago, Dallas, Houston — Local TV station operator could be facing significant fines or even loss of broadcast licenses
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Bob Ley, ESPN's longest-tenured anchor, is retiring at the end of the month after 40 years at the company — Bob Ley, after a 40-year career at ESPN, announced his retirement from the network Wednesday. — Ley, who had taken a leave of absence in October, said in a statement that he will be retiring at the end of this month.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Reddit “quarantines” r/The_Donald, which has 750K+ subs, over threats made against cops and public figures; quarantines show a content warning upon visiting sub — Users allegedly threatened law enforcement ordered to find Republican senators in Oregon who went on the lam to duck voting for climate-change bill.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Aggregation app SmartNews, which favors discovery over personalization and has 15M users, boosts traffic for pubs, but monetizing that traffic remains unproven — “If the publisher ecosystem is healthy, then SmartNews is healthy. That's going to be an important thrust going forward."
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Washington Post moves into Spanish language journalism with twice-a-week podcast and opinion columns — New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post's next expansion is in another language. The company's newsroom is launching a twice-a-week Spanish language podcast and the opinion section is beginning to publish pieces in Spanish.
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Publishers Association finds UK physical book sales fell by £168M, or 5.4%, in 2018, while audiobook sales surged by 43% to £69M — Publishers hit by surprise 5.4% fall in 2018 - but warn against proclaiming terminal decline — UK book sales fell for the first time in five years in 2018 …
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
The opening of a Chinese war movie, The Eight Hundred, was abruptly canceled amid a growing crackdown on works insufficiently in tune with Xi Jinping's ideology — BEIJING — It is not at all that rare for censors to wreak havoc on films here in China — cutting, say, several scenes from …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Low-cost live TV streaming service Philo launches official apps for Android and Amazon's Fire tablets — Despite a slight price increase in April, Philo's live TV streaming service is still one of the more affordable options on the market because of its strategic decision to not stream sports.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
The Office will move from Netflix to NBC's new streaming service in 2021; a source says Netflix was willing to pay up to $90M/year, but NBC offered $100M — KEY POINTS — NBC announced Tuesday it is taking back The Office from Netflix when the show's contract expires in 2021.
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