Mediagazer: Interview with NYT CEO Mark Thompson on NYT's widening content, changes to its paywall, subscription price increases, subscriber goals by 2025, and more (Ken Doctor/Nieman Lab)

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Twitter bans political ads globally, will allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs — - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.

Emily Stewart / Vox:
Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out

Discussion: @mmasnick, more at Techmeme »

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18 — Hulu is implementing its second price increase in less than a year for its Hulu With Live TV product — with the base package of 60-plus live channels increasing 22%, to $54.99 per month.

Discussion: Hulu, The Streamable, Cord Cutters News, Gizmodo, @onejarednewman, Tubefilter, BGR, Collider, Awful Announcing, Multichannel News, The Verge, TVWeek.com, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac and The Streamable, more at Techmeme »

Marc Schneider / Billboard:

Big Machine Label Group and Taylor Swift's reps trade accusations about catalog ownership and money after Swift said label stopped her from singing older songs — “Taylor, the narrative you have created does not exist,” the label says in a new statement. — Taylor Swift and Big Machine Label Group …

Discussion: Big Machine Label Group, Variety, Variety, @billboardbiz, BuzzFeed and The Week

Noah Yoo / Pitchfork:
Taylor Swift says her former label's CEO and Scooter Braun, who bought the label, won't let her sing early songs at an awards show or in a Netflix documentary

Raffaele Colella / The Keyword:

Google News debuts Beyond the Headlines tab, which surfaces in-depth content on key issues in English, with more languages and a mobile version coming in 2020 — Last year, we redesigned Google News with one goal in mind: to help people understand the world through quality, trustworthy and enjoyable news.

Discussion: Engadget, @carolynpfox and 9to5Google

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Criminal justice news site The Marshall Project turned 5 years old on Friday; it hopes to raise its annual budget to $10M in the next few years — “As a former journalist, I was mindful of the power of honest storytelling. As an idealist, I felt that if only Americans knew the truth, changes would soon follow."

Discussion: The Marshall Project, @susanchira, @mvilla1859, @nsbarsky, @johnarnoldfndtn, @marshallproj, @bronxdefenders, @jbenton, @mauricechammah and @geraldinesealey

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media's properties promoted and Netflix app blocked — Verizon has an answer to Roku, but it's not talking much about it: The mobile carrier quietly released a new streaming device …

Discussion: @gerryfsmith, @karlbode and @jank0, more at Techmeme »

Storybench:

Analysis of ~10K news articles from 28 outlets on 2020 Democratic candidates since March: media coverage continues to track cycles of scandals and viral news — It's a paradox of examining political coverage. Are news media just reporting what the political candidates are talking about?

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

Interview with NYT CEO Mark Thompson on NYT's widening content, changes to its paywall, subscription price increases, subscriber goals by 2025, and more — The “failing” New York Times' news operation now employs more than 1,700 journalists, up nearly 50 percent from a decade ago.

Discussion: A Media Operator

Tim Peterson / Digiday:

NYT posted $48M in “other” revenue, up 26% YoY, mostly attributed to The Weekly, which averages 1.2M viewers, plans to premiere two full-length docs in H1 2020 — The New York Times is making a move into movies. — The publisher aims to premiere at least two feature-length documentaries in the first half of 2020.

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Jimmy Wales' news site WikiTribune has relaunched as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and “news sharing” site where users can edit almost everything — Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat “clickbait” and misleading headlines.

Discussion: @tim, TechSpot, Fossbytes, ZDNet, @raju, @michellemanafy, Engadget and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Redbox settles its lawsuit with Disney, agreeing not to resell digital download codes it obtained by buying Disney DVD combo packs — A settlement finishes a legal dispute analyzing codes disassembled from “combo packs.” — On Thursday, Disney and Redbox informed a California federal judge …

Discussion: Variety, The Verge and MediaPost

TechCrunch:

Report finds toxic content on Giphy, including child abuse, depictions of rape, and imagery associated with white supremacy, despite its ban on illicit content — Certain hashtags and keywords revealed the illegal and banned content — Image search engine Giphy bills itself as providing a …

Discussion: @ingridlunden, @joshconstine and Fortune