Mediagazer: The producers and stars of the TV drama Bones settle their lawsuits with 20th Century Fox's studio over the disbursement of profits (Eriq Gardner/Hollywood Reporter)

Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:

Executives from seven newspaper companies lobbied Congress on Tuesday for support of a bill that would let newspapers jointly negotiate with tech platforms — Executives from seven newspaper companies lobbied Capitol Hill yesterday to urge Congress to pass the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act …

Discussion: Axios, Talking Biz News, @jeffjarvis, News Media Alliance, @spj_tweets, New Jersey Globe and Fox Business

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Express, The Washington Post's free weekday paper for commuters, will close after 16 years on Thursday due to its financial condition; 20 journalists laid off — Express, the free newspaper published weekdays by The Washington Post for Metro riders and other commuters, will shut down on Thursday …

Ted Johnson / Deadline:

Lauren Petterson named president of Fox Business Network, replacing Brian Jones — Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott on Thursday announced a major change at the top of Fox Business Network: Lauren Petterson is replacing Brian Jones as president. — Petterson will continue to oversee talent development at Fox News Channel.

Discussion: TVNewser, Variety and The Wrap

Doris Truong / Poynter:

ASNE survey: people of color make up 22% of staff in legacy print newsrooms; at online-only outlets, journalists of color make up about a third of staff — Fewer people of color are employed in America's newsrooms than organizers of a well-known newsroom diversity survey had hoped.

Discussion: @poynter and @toddlighty

Denise Petski / Deadline:

BBC News will produce an international news show for short-form video startup Quibi, to be filmed in London five days a week and launching in April 2020 — Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form video platform, has announced a partnership with BBC News to produce …

Discussion: Variety and TechCrunch

Emily Tamkin / Columbia Journalism Review:

Interview with CNN's Daniel Dale, who says it's important to correct Trump falsehoods, intentional or unintentional, because he's consistently wrong on details — In June, CNN hired Daniel Dale, a reporter who had become—to the extent possible for reporters—famous, specifically for fact-checking.

Discussion: @ddale8, Politico, @ddale8, @owillis, @ajentleson, @cjr, @mlcalderone and @emilyctamkin

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Walmart's Vudu is launching family-friendly features, like Family Play, which lets viewers automatically skip or mute “objectionable” content, and a kids' mode — Vudu, Walmart's video-streaming unit, is promising parents new tools to evaluate and control what their kids watch …

Discussion: The Streamable

TechCrunch:

Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects, for an undisclosed sum — Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated …

Discussion: Music Business Worldwide, Variety, FinSMEs and Reuters

Alex Burness / The Colorado Independent:

As part of its $50K settlement with the Colorado Independent editor for wrongfully detaining her, Denver PD agrees to strengthen First Amendment training — Denver's Police Department has agreed to a $50,000 settlement with Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene, whose …

Discussion: @tinagriego

Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:

Audible will limit its Captions program, which shows text alongside narration, to public domain works until the copyright lawsuit filed by seven publishers ends — IBPA CEO Angela Bole said IBPA “sees benefit in something like the Audible Captions program, but not without proper permission …

Discussion: Bookseller News

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

The producers and stars of the TV drama Bones settle their lawsuits with 20th Century Fox's studio over the disbursement of profits — Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Barry Josephson, and Kathy Reichs take a lucrative settlement after scoring an arbitration award that slammed Fox's “reprehensible” fraud.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, @thr and Wall Street Journal

Caysey Welton / Folio:

Lacking ad buy figures, a comparison of the weight of the September issues of five fashion magazines shows significant declines since 2016, notably for Elle — Our annual fall weigh-in reveals flat and falling numbers. — The story of shrinking magazines and fewer ad pages is anything but new.

Discussion: bookforum.com