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3:05 PM ET, July 3, 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 …
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
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  —  In January 2017, Breitbart.com was flying high.  Donald Trump, the candidate it had backed during the 2016 campaign, was sworn in as president.
Meredith Lerner / CREW:
Heather Nauert reported a salary from 21st Century Fox while working for the govt despite an ethics waiver contingent upon not having financial interest in Fox  —  Heather Nauert, a former State Department spokesperson and President Trump's original pick to replace Nikki Haley …
Discussion: @miafarrow and @underoak
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Guardian News and Media reported a median pay gap of 4.9%, favoring men, in April 2019, down from 8.4% in 2018, and 12.1% in 2017  —  The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers has cut its gender pay gap by 40 per cent in the past year.  —  Guardian News and Media reported a median pay gap …
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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
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey of news media employment between January and June 2019: thousands laid off or offered buyouts; the industry is on course for its worst year since 2009  —  Between January and May this year, approximately 3,000 people working in the news industry were laid off or offered a buyout.
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  —  Netflix upended the entertainment business by successfully moving into nearly every genre — scripted dramas, comedies, stand-up specials …
Seb Joseph / Digiday:
Sources: WPP to stop participating in Accenture-supervised ad pitches starting in 2020, as WPP says Accenture could use the data to undercut its pitch price  —  A spat between WPP and Accenture is turning ugly.  The agency group is refusing to share its media data with Accenture for a media audit …
Discussion: @tinafegent and @digiday
 
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