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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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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
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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A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
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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Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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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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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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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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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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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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
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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Andrew Blustein / The Drum:
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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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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Yun Li / CNBC:
Netflix, which has faced new streaming rivals and disappointed on subscriber numbers recently, has seen its stock drop from $380+ in early July to $265 today — - Shares of Netflix erased all of its 46% gain for the year at its peak and officially entered negative territory on Monday.
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