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12:15 PM ET, July 4, 2019

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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
UK competition agency launches investigation into how Google and Facebook collect and use user data and if they've abused their power to dominate the ad market  —  Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data  —  The UK competition watchdog has launched …
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Despite diversity in presidential candidates, punditry still belongs to guys who give us mediocre analysis, grotesque speech on women, and cluelessness on race  —  In past weeks, the curtain has officially been raised on the vast and diverse field of candidates for the Democratic nomination …
Dom Phillips / The Guardian:
Report: Brazilian federal police have requested a probe into the finances of The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald after he reported leaks from a corruption inquiry  —  Federal police reportedly asked money laundering unit to investigate the ‘financial activities’ of the US journalist
Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: MAD Magazine to stop creating new content after issue 10, except for end-of-year specials, and shift to previously published material with new covers  —  The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will no longer feature …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Univision has hired Morgan Stanley and investment bank LionTree to explore strategic options, including a possible sale  —  The company has retained investment banks Morgan Stanley and LionTree to explore its options  —  Univision Communications Inc. is exploring strategic options including …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
A look inside Fox Nation: a fresh misconduct claim, issues about hosts' political activities, and scrutiny of leader John Finley, who faced a 2011 HR complaint  —  The network said it has “resolved” a claim that host Britt McHenry leveled against co-host Tyrus.  She has hired an employment lawyer.
Kali Hays / WWD:
Sources: W staffers were first given one day to sign on to work for Future, later extended to two; all contracts stipulate a three-month “introductory period”  —  Goodbye Condé Nast and “Summer Fridays.”  Hello a “revenue-comes-first” editorial outlook.  —  Saoirse Ronan on W's cover in 2019
The Economic Times:
Sources: Comcast-led consortium is in negotiations to buy a stake in Zee Media, one of India's biggest media companies  —  Comcast will be leading the consortium, Murdoch might act as the local partner & take up a small stake.  —  MUMBAI: US cable major Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal …
Discussion: Livemint, cnbctv18.com and The Week
Reporters Without Borders:
RSF and its partners open three-month public consultation period on their Journalism Trust Initiative, drafted to provide indicators of trustworthy journalism  —  Organisation  —  RSF_en  —  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partners AFP, EBU and GEN are pleased to announce the launch …
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
PwC 2019-2023 forecast: podcast ad revenue to pass $1B by end of 2019 and hit $1.4B by 2023, up from $0.7B currently, in part due to advent of programmatic ads  —  Podcast advertising revenue is expected to pass $1 billion by the end of 2019, according to figures from PwC's Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2019-2023.
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
In a survey of 1,000 American adults, 33% said the news media was “the enemy of the people” while 67% said it was an important part of democracy  —  One-third of Americans say the news media is “the enemy of the people,” according to a new Hill-Harris X poll survey.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
 
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Breitbart News has continued to lose advertisers and traffic, bottoming out at 4.6M unique visitors in May, down from 17.3M at the start of 2017, per Comscore
John Koblin / New York Times:
Talk shows have struggled on Netflix, which has canceled three so far, because the format is based on timeliness and on creating a habit in viewers