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MAD Magazine will 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 …
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Hossein Derakhshan / The Guardian:
Public broadcast companies in the UK and Europe should join forces and resources to create a public social media platform to distribute their journalistic work — Public broadcast companies could join up to create a platform that values diversity and privacy unlike super-platforms such as Facebook
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
UK data protection issues guidance on use of cookies, banning “tracking walls” and implied consent for non-essential cookies, including ones for analytics — This week U.K data protection authority the Information Commissioner's Office issued a blunt reminder of how cookies …
Reuters:
French pay-TV channel Canal Plus to cut 500 jobs, or 18% of its workforce, through voluntary departures as it loses to competitors like Netflix and beIN Sports — PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi's pay-TV Canal Plus plans to cut 500 jobs in France, or nearly 18 percent of its staff in the country …
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Nishant Lalwani / The Guardian:
BBC Media Action and Pierre Omidyar's Luminate to call for a $1B/year “International Fund for Public Interest Media” at next week's conference on media freedom — Journalists risk everything to hold power to account, crucial work for which a $1bn global fund should be established
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Noam Cohen / New Yorker:
A California law went into effect July 1 banning bots from pretending to be real people, without disclosure, while selling products or influencing votes — When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human …
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@carnage4life and @mikeparks75, more at Techmeme »
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Some TV stations including WKRN in Nashville and KXAN in Austin have disappeared from DirecTV, DirecTV Now, and U-Verse due to an AT&T-Nexstar carriage dispute — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links.
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Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost and Variety
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Researchers publish study discussing online game they made wherein users act as a fake news creators; game is meant to “vaccinate” users against misinformation — London (CNN Business)There isn't a cure for fake news. But as with any disease, prevention is often the best medicine.
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@alexvespi, @lovegreg and @fabiochiusi
Colin Perkel / The Canadian Press:
Vice reporter Ben Makuch loses his final court bid to block a Canadian police demand for him to turn over his background chats with a source in a terrorism case — TORONTO — A reporter's last-ditch attempt at blocking an RCMP demand for his background materials in a terrorism case failed Thursday …
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@bmakuch and @jms_dot_py
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Comcast report: in March, 69.9M US homes had DVRs and 64.1M had smart TVs; monthly viewing hours on smart TVs hit 5.5B vs. 4.6B for DVRs — Among the many positive indicators for OTT in Comscore's newly released 2019 “The State of OTT” report is the platform's imminent surpassing of DVR tech.
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
PwC: global podcast ad revenue to pass $1B by the end of 2019 and hit $1.4B by 2023, up from $0.7B now, in part due to advent of programmatic ads in podcasts — 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.
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 …
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