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Kim Kelly / Columbia Journalism Review:
Freelancer Kim Kelly describes how NPR parted ways with her citing her “activist stance”, after Tucker Carlson aired a segment about her — My life with heavy metal, Tucker Carlson, NPR, and strong opinions — My first byline was an article for my local newspaper's Teen Voice section …
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@samthielman, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, NPR, @sethdmichaels, @craignewmark, @sarahw, @freedarko, @nberlat, @femmefeministe and @samthielman
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook is testing selling video streaming subscriptions in the US, starting with four services including BritBox, CollegeHumor's Dropout, and Tastemade Plus — Facebook is dipping its toes into the subscription VOD waters — as an aggregator and reseller.
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Adweek, Vox, The Streamable, Fast Company, @xpangler, The Wrap, @mattnavarra and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Interviews with members of a 900-strong private Facebook group for advertisers on Facebook and Instagram showcase the unreliability of Facebook's Ad Manager — - Advertisers say system has crashed regularly since November — Social-media company says it's ‘committed’ to fixing issues
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@kurtwagner8, @matthewstoller, @sarahfrier and @shiraovide, more at Techmeme »
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS and AT&T strike a new carriage deal, ending a prolonged blackout of CBS programming — CBS and AT&T came to new terms on carriage of CBS stations on the telecommunications giant's DirecTV satellite service, ending a prolonged blackout of CBS programming. More to come......
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MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News, The Streamable and @benmullin
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix signs multi-year film and TV deal with Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss; sources say the deal is worth $200M — David Benioff and Dan Weiss have signed a multiple-year film and TV pact with the streamer, which was bidding for the duo's services alongside Disney and Amazon.
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Deadline, TechCrunch, The Streamable, Broadcasting & Cable, @snoodit, The Wrap, Observer, The Verge, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, The Week, @kaludiasays, The Playlist, Engadget, Business Insider, @hello_tailor, @benttravers, @charlespulliam, The Independent, The A.V. Club, Slate, Gizmodo, CNET, Digital Trends, Digital Trends, Collider, Mashable, The Verge, TVWeek.com, Consequence of Sound, BGR, Variety, /Film, NME, The Wrap and UPI, more at Techmeme »
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom's Q3 revenue rose 4% YoY to $3.36B with ad revenue at its cable networks unit up 6% YoY, returning to US advertising growth for the first time since 2014 — The company, which is led by CEO Bob Bakish and has been in talks with CBS Corp. about a recombination, returned to domestic ad growth …
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The Wrap, @thr, @thr, Variety, @richattbd, FierceVideo, MediaPost and Viacom
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics — Search for what you want to hear — Google is taking the next step in making podcasts easier to find.
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The Keyword, Fast Company, @dzohrob, TechCrunch, @ashleyrcarman and @mrpaulbae, more at Techmeme »
David Segal / New York Times:
Profile of James Daunt, who saved Britain's Waterstones bookshop chain from the brink of bankruptcy and who will now try to revive Barnes & Noble as its new CEO — James Daunt fought Amazon and rescued the country's biggest bookstore chain. Now comes Chapter 2.
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@xanalter, @kathryndill, @kjmcinnis1, @kassiastclair, @lizflock, @durgaraghunath and @dada_drummer
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Some pubs including Vice Media and The Stylist Group say revenue and traffic from Apple News has risen in the past few months — Publishers including Vice Media and The Stylist Group say they've gotten traffic and, more importantly, revenue lifts from Apple News in the last three months.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
iHeartMedia debuts Sunday Night Podcasts, to air its top podcasts across 270 broadcast radio stations across the US, every Sunday — What's even a podcast? — iHeartMedia will harness more than 850 radio stations to build its podcast audience and entice potential advertisers.
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Engadget and @ashleyrcarman
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Federal judge rules that Ed Butowsky's libel suit against NPR for revealing his role in funding an investigation into the death of Seth Rich can go forward — A federal judge has rejected National Public Radio's bid to dismiss a Texas investment adviser's libel suit over news reports …
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Law & Crime, @justinhendrix, @gabrielmalor, @bmaz, @packerpoppa, @organizingpower, @joshgerstein, @profcarroll and The Hill
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
How Piano created a “propensity” paywall that uses machine learning with 76 metrics to predict how likely someone is to subscribe, and adjusts accordingly — They went from being the kid nobody wanted to talk with to one of the cool kids on the block. (Apparently showing the other kids how to make money helps.)
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American Press Institute, @hilmarschmundt, @roeiwrites, @iethics, @nisalahe and @kenherts, more at Techmeme »
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
UK's newspapers circulation auditor ABC will stop publishing six-monthly reports for regional papers, instead publishing on a rolling basis throughout the year — Newspaper circulation auditor ABC is no longer publishing six-monthly reports for regional news publications in the UK.
Gabriel Snyder / Columbia Journalism Review:
Dean Baquet acknowledges some subscribers expect The NYT to take an adversarial role against Trump, doesn't see this moment in history as particularly aberrant — Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, was at home on Monday night—as was the rest of the paper's senior leadership …
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The Atlantic, @ajentleson, @realdonaldtrump, @ddale8, The Guardian, MediaFile, @rynk, @bvivian14, @lizzieohreally, @neeratanden, Digiday, @realdonaldtrump, @espiegler, @imillhiser, @jayrosen_nyu, @brianbeutler, @will_bunch, @timkarr, @moorehn, @maggienyt, @marty_lederman, Mother Jones, @mattzeitlin, @jamesfallows, New York Post, @hirschorn, @moorehn, Ad Age, @jbenton, @dloehr, @stuartetc, @dominicumile, @meredithshiner and @djkgamc
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
New York Times reaches a high of 4.7M total subscribers in Q2, with nearly 3.8M subscribers to digital products; digital-only subscription revenue grew 14% YoY
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FiveThirtyEight, Business Wire, @raju, @nickconfessore, @nytimesbusiness, @elanazak, @martyswant, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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