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6:00 PM ET, July 1, 2019

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Andrew Flanagan / NPR:
Big Machine Label Group, Taylor Swift's old label, was sold to a company owned by the manager of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande; source: deal valued at $300M+  —  The country-pop record company Big Machine Label Group, one of the most successful independent labels in the country …
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Progressive news site ThinkProgress, launched 14 years ago, is put up for sale by the Center for American Progress as it faces falling ad revenue and donations  —  News site launched during the Bush years is running millions of dollars short.  Its parent think tank says it will consider the editorial leanings of prospective owners.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify ends its direct music upload beta program for artists after debuting it last year, saying it would rather focus on features unique to the platform  —  Spotify is shutting down a program that allowed indie artists to upload their own music to the streaming service, the company announced today.
Samantha Sunne / Poynter:
Of the 65 journalists laid off at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, 19 plan to remain as journalists in the city; The Advocate hired 10, 3 with grant-funded salaries  —  Less than a third of the former Times-Picayune staffers are staying in New Orleans journalism
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Nielsen Total Audience Report: 21% of SVOD users give up watching if they can't decide what to watch; the average adult takes 7.4 minutes to make a selection  —  The proliferation of streaming and the novelty of the subscription video on demand interface are contributing …
Alyssa Bereznak / The Ringer:
How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists  —  Lil Nas X's ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business.  Here's what happens when a social media platform becomes a label.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Pluto TV launches Pluto TV Latino, 11 free linear channels, which it says is the biggest collection of Hispanic programming on an ad-supported streaming service  —  Pluto TV is targeting Hispanic audiences — long underserved in the streaming space — with Pluto TV Latino …
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Hearst enters the streaming market with All Out Studio, a fitness app available on Apple TV and mobile on July 11, priced at $100/year or $15/month  —  Hearst Magazines is getting into the SVOD (subscription video on demand) space with a new fitness app, called “All Out Studio.”
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
New WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham was bruised in a scuffle with N. Korean security while helping US media gain access to Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un  —  New White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham was bruised Sunday in a scuffle between North Korean security and members …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
MobiTV, which enables pay-TV companies to provide streaming video services without a set-top box, raises $50M in funding  —  MobiTV has raised $50 million in funding to expand its pay TV delivery system internationally.  —  Emeryville, California-based MobiTV sells its platform to providers of pay TV …
Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
China ordered suspension or termination of 26 audio-focused apps on Friday; Apple restricted access to podcasts not hosted by Chinese partners in June  —  Audio apps are flying high in China.  In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding …
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts got 17.1B views since July 2024

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Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals
 
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