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9:25 AM ET, July 6, 2019

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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist made 59% of its £333.4M in revenue from subscriptions and circulation in 2018; in May, newsletter referral traffic overtook Twitter referrals  —  When it comes to content, The Economist takes the view that value trumps volume, a view that extends to its email newsletters.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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
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 …
Hollywood Reporter:
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 …
Elisa Shearer / Pew Research Center:
A look at the challenges underlying how the Pew Research Center has phrased questions about Americans' online news habits since 1999  —  Elisa Shearer in Pew Research Center: Decoded  —  At Pew Research Center, we've been asking Americans about their online news habits since the mid-1990s.
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 …
Discussion: Broadband TV News
John McCarthy / The Drum:
Ofcom report: UK commercial TV and radio revenues stayed flat at £11.3B and £572M, respectively, but revenue sources shifted to make up for falling ad revenue  —  The fortunes of UK TV and radio broadcasters have remained stable in the last year despite continued general declines in the ad market, according to Ofcom data.
Doha Chams / Medium:
A look at the money and people behind The Independent Arabia, licensed from the UK British daily to Saudi billionaire Soltan Mohamed Abuljadayel  —  “Comment: Far from producing high quality, rigorous professional journalism, ‘The Independent Arabia’ is a propaganda tool of the Saudi regime …
 
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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
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Comscore 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
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
 Earlier Picks: 
The Economic Times:
Sources: Comcast-led consortium is in negotiations to buy a stake in Zee Media, one of India's biggest media companies
Discussion: Livemint, cnbctv18.com and The Week
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, in part due to the advent of programmatic ads in podcasts
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
 

 
From Techmeme:

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions

 
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