Top News:
Richard Gingras / The Keyword:
Google says it changed how it ranks stories and updated guidelines for evaluation of search results to help better identify and surface original news reporting — Google Search was built to provide everyone access to information on the web—and with tens of thousands of web pages …
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
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, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News
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
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 and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Edward Felsenthal / TIME:
Time magazine devotes entire issue to climate change: “what you will not find in this issue are climate-change skeptics,” writes EIC — This issue, if civilization can get its act together, might just mark a midpoint in TIME's coverage of the biggest crisis facing our planet.
Discussion:
@mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone and @jayrosen_nyu
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
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:
American Press Institute, @toddlighty and @poynter
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, Engadget, FinSMEs, Variety and Reuters
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
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:
Politico, @ddale8, @brendannyhan, @brendannyhan, @jayrosen_nyu, @owillis, @ajentleson, @brendannyhan, @ddale8, @cjr, @mlcalderone and @emilyctamkin
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, @jonathancrock, News Media Alliance, @spj_tweets, New Jersey Globe and Fox Business
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
The Wrap:
Sources: 40 people were let go from AXS TV after Mark Cuban's sale of his majority stake in the cable network and the channel HDNet Movies to Anthem Sports — Dallas, Denver and Los Angeles offices experience staff reductions — Forty people have been let go from AXS TV following Mark Cuban's sale …
Discussion:
@axstv, @microphonephoen, @grabaka_hitman, @robnashville, AXS TV, LordsofPain.net, Multichannel News, Wrestling Inc. and Broadcasting & Cable
The Information:
Internal Facebook memo: editors for an upcoming news tab will exercise significant control over top stories, including judging the use of anonymous sources — Facebook has said repeatedly that it isn't in the journalism business, but a team of human editors responsible for an upcoming news initiative …
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 …
Discussion:
@donie, Washington Post, Talking Biz News, Mediaite, Washingtonian, @mlcalderone, @neil_irwin, The Washington Post Guild, Poynter, @maustermuhle, @ellen_collier, @jason_koebler, @egoldmanrevolt, @jbenton, @abeaujon, @abeaujon, @davetepps, @councilofdc, @mikafrak, @mccartneywp, @vanessahlarson, @sarahanne_news, @sarahanne_news, @vanessahlarson, @vanessahlarson, @adamgriffiths, @shortformernie, @troyhalibur, @faizsays, @fritzhahn, @scottnover, @scottnover, @jennyrogersdc, @jwpascale, @elanazak, @serenaegolden, DCist, The Wrap and The Hill
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