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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
2019 Emmys: HBO tops with 9 Primetime and 25 Creative Arts wins, followed by Netflix with 4 and 23 respectively; Amazon came second in Primetime with 7 wins — After winding up in an historic tie in 2018, HBO held off Netflix in this year's Emmy race to capture the most wins among networks across …
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Travis Clark / Business Insider:
Emmys ratings downturn continues, falling 32% from last year's Monday broadcast to 6.9M viewers, amid lack of host and schedule clash with Sunday Night Football — - The Emmys telecast ratings declined 32% to a new low of 6.9 million viewers on Sunday, according to Nielsen ratings.
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New York Times:
How the story of a stabbing left an Italian journalist unemployed and put him at the center of a debate over the reach of Europe's “right to be forgotten” rule — The use of Europe's ‘right to be forgotten’ privacy law has broadened, illustrated by two Italian brothers, a stabbing and the journalist who wrote about them.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A look at the SPJ's six-month effort to understand the citizens of Casper, WY, where trust in news sources is among the lowest in the US — Rod Hicks has spent 30 years as a journalist in seven newsrooms across the country. He's been a reporter at the Anniston Star in Alabama …
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Lenore Taylor / The Guardian:
Editor of Guardian Australia reflects on watching her first Trump presser, says reporters are doing a disservice by imposing meaning on his incoherent ramblings — Despite being subjected to a daily diet of Trump headlines, I was unprepared for the president's alarming incoherence
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast, Charter, and Cox's NCC Media rebrands as Ampersand, as it debuts new capability to let advertisers send their commercials to specific audience segments — Comcast, Cox and Charter want to help programmers make more of their TV ads addressable — Cable operators Comcast Corp. …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCU's local TV group debuts LX, aimed at ages 18-45, to create local content online; in April, LX to get an OTA channel and streaming network with live content — NBCUniversal's local TV division is taking a new tack to reach younger audiences that don't tune in to its traditional newscasts.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Coverage of Trump's latest episode with Ukraine shows how major media outlets haven't learned anything from 2016 and their tendency to embrace false equivalence — If you've paid any attention to press retrospectives on the 2016 election, you've seen the term false equivalence.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Interview with Bob Iger about his new memoir “The Ride of a Lifetime,” the Fox deal, pulling the plug on buying Twitter, running for President, and more — Hollywood's nicest C.E.O. on the great family dramas of Hollywood — and why he, too, is disturbed by Twitter.
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
While Laura Kuenssberg may have had good intentions when linking to a protestor's tweet, the impact on his privacy suggests alternative means were more suitable — This week Twitter got angry. — Again. — It was angry because BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg identified the father …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK regulator IPSO exempts overseas content published by UK-based news websites, with newsrooms in other countries, from complying with IPSO guidelines — Content primarily aimed at overseas readers published by UK-based news websites with newsrooms in other countries, such as Mail Online …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
A look at the new Provincetown Independent in Massachusetts, an example of potential success for newspapers without the massive profits private equity expects — Everyone knows that local newspapers are in trouble. That's why Deb Fallows and I have been chronicling examples of smaller papers …
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