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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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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
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Variety, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, Quartz, Fast Company, @sarafischer, Bloomberg, CNBC, Axios, Business Insider, The Playlist, Variety, Los Angeles Times and 6abc


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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PR Newswire, Adweek, The Drum and FierceVideo


BuzzFeed, Group Nine, Insider say they're forming an ad alliance to sell video ads across each of their sites, apps, YouTube channels, which get ~1B views/month — BuzzFeed, Group Nine Media and Insider form alliance to co-sell video ads — Three prominent digital publishers are pooling …


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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NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says the Trump administration was prepared to let Egypt arrest a NYT reporter, calls out Trump's anti-press rhetoric as a global threat — In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.
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The Hill, @tomnamako, @postbaron, @jason_kint, @nytopinion, @maggienyt, @nahaltoosi, @mollyjongfast and @alexburnsnyt


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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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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Engadget, The Desk and The Streamable


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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American Press Institute, @paulbradshaw, @spj_tweets and @paulbradshaw


Federal appeals court strikes down 2017 FCC vote to relax media ownership rules, asks FCC for further review of impacts on women and minority ownership — “The Commission did not adequately consider the effect its sweeping rule changes will have on ownership of broadcast media by women and racial minorities …
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Roku and ad tech company Innovid announce plans to create a single campaign report across OTT and traditional TV by pooling their datasets together — Roku and Innovid are pooling their datasets together to provide advertisers with a single campaign report across and over-the-top (OTT) and traditional TV.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Cheddar, Marketing Dive, FierceVideo and MediaPost


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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Poynter, @alanmillernlp, @anne_s_kim, @sulliview, @sulliview and Editor & Publisher Magazine


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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Politico, The Daily Beast, @jamesfallows, NPR and CNN