Mediagazer: Inside Pennsylvania PBS39's nightly solutions-focused newscast, launched ~11 months ago after the station received $82M from spectrum sale (Christine Schmidt/Nieman Lab)

Laura Wagner / Deadspin:

G/O employees discuss Jim Spanfeller's dubious hiring practices, apparent disregard for C-suite diversity, micromanagement, and editorial interference — When Jim Spanfeller and a private equity firm called Great Hill Partners took over G/O Media—formerly Gizmodo Media Group—in April …

Discussion: @alishagrauso, @erinbiba, @fmanjoo, @ryanlcooper, @grahamstarr, @jonbernhardt, @rklein90, @reasonablysober, @daciampaglia, @jamilahlemieux, @sokane1, @bendwalsh, @bendwalsh and @grahamstarr

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

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.

Discussion: @kenherts, @mathewi, @espiers and facebookjournalismproject.com

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, /Film, Broadcasting & Cable and The Verge

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: @frankwords and @mccanntha

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

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: Nieman Lab, Pew Research Center, @pewresearch, @niemanlab, @pewresearch, @moorehn and MediaPost

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: Middle East Eye

David Shepardson / Reuters:

FCC votes to tighten rules governing franchise fees paid by cable companies to local authorities, which could lead to public access channels going off the air — The U.S. Federal Communications Commision (FCC) on Thursday voted 3-2 to tighten rules governing the franchise fees paid …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Wall Street Journal:

Data shows hundreds of possible bot social media accounts promoted misinformation and content on race during recent Democratic presidential debates — Data shows suspicious social-media accounts targeted Kamala Harris, including with conspiracy theories, during both Democratic gatherings

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

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

Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:

Hearst is building Hearst Audience Select, a self-serve ad platform for small brands to advertise across Hearst properties, to launch in time for Q4 — Hearst is building a self-serve ad platform so advertisers can overlay their audience data against Hearst's to reach readers across sites like Cosmopolitan …

Marc Tracy / New York Times:

Print generated $25B+ in revenue in 2018; its steady cash flow attracts investors who realize that lowering overhead reduces costs at a faster rate than revenue — Hedge funds have found that they are able to wring profits out of an ailing product: the print newspaper. But for how long?

Discussion: American Press Institute, @alexkoppelman, @alexbreitler, @reidepstein, @annehelen and USA Today

MIX / The Next Web:

Sensor Tower: YouTube remains world's top-grossing video app, generating $138M in user spending in Q2 2019, up 220% YoY; US users generated ~70% of this revenue — Google must be happy. YouTube is the world's top-grossing app in the photo and video software category for a second quarter in a row.

Discussion: 9to5Google