Mediagazer: Survey of 160 former journalists finds 58% left in the last 3 years, 18% in 2019; 45% had worked in the field for 10+ years; 87% worked in print at one point (Luis Gomez/Medium)

2:05 AM ET, August 3, 2019

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Laura Wagner / Deadspin:

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Facebook says its local news subscription initiative has led to tens of thousands of new digital subscriptions and about $5M in value at 14 participating papers — It's been more than a year since Facebook announced that it would be funding a Local News Subscriptions Accelerator.

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CNN analyst and Playboy correspondent Brian Karem says the White House suspended his press pass for 30 days; CNN says WH cited Karem's dispute with Seb Gorka — Playboy White House correspondent and CNN political analyst Brian Karem said today the White House has suspended his press pass for 30 days.

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AAJA Voices:

Data collected from ~150 interns who worked at seven top news orgs shows 65% went to the most selective four-year colleges; NYT, WaPo, WSJ recruited from top 1% — Two out of three summer interns from seven top newsrooms came from among the most selective colleges in America, our analysis shows.

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Elaine Low / Variety:

CBS says CBS All Access and Showtime OTT together have 8M subscribers, plans to reach 25M by 2022; CBS All Access will offer at least 12 original shows in 2020 — CBS All Access is ramping up its offerings to at least 12 original series in 2020, said streaming service execs …

Discussion: MediaPost, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, /Film and The Verge

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Pew: 27% of papers with Sunday circulations of ~50K+ faced layoffs in 2018 vs. 32% in 2017; 14% of digital media sites laid off staff in 2018 vs. 20% in 2017 — If you work at a U.S. newspaper and didn't have layoffs in the last two years, consider yourself lucky.

Discussion: Pew Research Center, @niemanlab, The Wrap, @pewresearch, @pewresearch, CNN, @moorehn and MediaPost

Luis Gomez / Medium:

Survey of 160 former journalists finds 58% left in the last 3 years, 18% in 2019; 45% had worked in the field for 10+ years; 87% worked in print at one point — 160 former journalists open up about why they left news to pursue a career elsewhere. Here's what they want us to know about the news industry.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @tothevictor, @derektmead, @rungomez, @mar_piedrabuena, @rungomez and Luis Gomez

Colin Dixon / nScreenMedia:

Parks Associates: 39% of US broadband homes own a streaming media player, up 1% since 2018; Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% and 30% of the market, respectively — New research data shows that streaming media player growth is flattening. However, the number of connected TV homes continues to grow strongly, thanks to smart TV.

Discussion: MediaPost

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Vimeo launches Vimeo Enterprise, a tool to allow companies to host, share, and manage video content internally, as it continues its pivot away from content — Vimeo, the 14-year-old video service that started as a platform for indie filmmakers, is launching Vimeo Enterprise …

Discussion: Advanced Television, more at Techmeme »

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Inside Pennsylvania PBS39's nightly solutions-focused newscast, launched ~11 months ago after the station received $82M from spectrum sale — “It wasn't, like, 'bam bam soundbite soundbite you're done.'” — This was a serious case of lemons and (potentially) lemonade.

Discussion: @mccanntha, @niemanlab, @niemanlab and @frankwords

Reuters:

Turkey's TV and radio watchdog granted oversight of online content, including streamers and online news outlets; providers must now get broadcasting licenses — ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Thursday granted its radio and television watchdog sweeping oversight over all online content …

Discussion: @p_zalewski and Middle East Eye

Hank Stuever / Washington Post:

CNN's overproduced, conflict-obsessed debates were full of cable-news alarmism and resembled prime-time game shows and reality TV, rather than democratic debate — Lately there's a strange caution in the air about the intellectual pitfalls of comparing American politics to the performing arts — or worse, to showbiz.

Discussion: Associated Press, @jayrosen_nyu, @elaheizadi, Media Matters for America, @heathermallick, @brfreed, Breitbart, Variety, The Week, Broadcasting & Cable and Slate

Wall Street Journal:
Data shows hundreds of possible bot social media accounts promoted misinformation and content on race during recent Democratic presidential debates

Discussion: Vox, @maureenlinke, @moorehn, @blackwomenviews, @reasonvsfear, @amandacarpenter and CNN

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