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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 …
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New York Times, Nieman Lab, TechCrunch, @rafat, @googlenewsinit, @mishaalrahman, Search Engine Land, Axios, 9to5Google and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
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, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap and Multichannel News
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
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 …
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Axios, Talking Biz News, @jeffjarvis, @jonathancrock, News Media Alliance, @spj_tweets, New Jersey Globe and Fox Business
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, FinSMEs, Variety 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 …
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Bookseller News
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.
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Politico, @ddale8, @ddale8, @owillis, @ajentleson, @cjr, @mlcalderone and @emilyctamkin
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
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, 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.
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