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New York Times:
AP poll finds that ~60% of Americans say they regularly see conflicting reports about the same facts from different sources, as people tune out from the news — Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin.
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@drvox, @whatthebit, @will_bunch, @joshuahol, @katestarbird and @jakesnyt
Raymond Zhong / New York Times:
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, claims that TikTok doesn't share data with China or ByteDance and doesn't censor videos at China's behest — Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington's fears. “I am quite optimistic,” he said.
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Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, @alexstamos, @puiwingtam and @isaacstonefish, more at Techmeme »
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as December, initially in Brazil, India, and Indonesia — The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple in the music streaming market …
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CNN, Music Business Worldwide, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Music Industry Blog, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Knight Foundation:
Gallup/Knight study: 86% of Americans believe people should have access to local news, but only 1 in 5 subscribe or donate to local news organizations — WASHINGTON, DC (Nov. 17, 2019) Most Americans - 86 percent - think people should have access to local news - even if they don't pay for it …
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Nieman Lab, Talking Biz News, American Press Institute, CNN, @fitzthereporter, @brianstelter and @jboren4507
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
FedEx CEO Fred Smith blasts NYT article on its tax affairs, without identifying any specific errors, and challenges A.G. Sulzberger to debate him on tax policy — Fred Smith blasts the report — without identifying any specific errors — detailing how the shipper's tax bill went from $1.5 billion in 2017 to zero a year later
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New York Times, CNN, The Hill, Business Insider, CBS News, Telegraph and New York Post
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet says Trump puts journalists' “lives at risk” when he subjects them to personal attacks and calls them names — Dean Baquet decries abuse of journalists and defends not calling president racist — The executive editor of the New York Times …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @derektmead, Mediaite, @wphillips49, @laurawags, @bgrueskin, Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Breitbart and The Hill
Owen Bowcott / The Guardian:
Lib Dems and SNP lose challenge against ITV over their exclusion from a UK TV debate, with High Court judges ruling it is not open to judicial review challenges — Parties argued it was illegal and unfair to restrict broadcast to Labour and Conservatives — The Liberal Democrats …
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Press Gazette and BBC
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $92M, including a $28M raise in August, at a valuation of $1.2B, bringing its total raised to $182M — Looks like there's still money to be made in news aggregation — at least according to the investors backing the news app SmartNews.
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@simonowens and @whatthebit, more at Techmeme »
NPR:
A look at the role Spanish-language media plays in the Latino community and the issues it's facing, as the fourth Spanish-language publication closes this year — NPR's Michel Martin talks to journalism professor Graciela Mochkofsky about the current state of Spanish-language media in America …
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
A look at BuzzFeed's Creators Program, which has 31 in-house and 5 external creators and has brokered 65 branded content campaigns in 2019, up ~2x from 2018 — Two years ago, a series of “Why I Left BuzzFeed” videos popped up on YouTube, with past employees complaining they were not allowed …
Nick Visser / HuffPost UK:
House Minority Leader McCarthy pens letter to ABC News president, asking for more info on its decision not to run Amy Robach's interview with an Epstein accuser — “It is clear that ABC News' enabling of Mr. Epstein has consequences,” the House minority leader wrote to the network's president.
Michael Calderone / Politico:
The Hill says it's reviewing, annotating, and when appropriate, correcting former columnist John Solomon's opinion pieces referenced in the impeachment inquiry — The columnist's attacks on a U.S. ambassador, which were hailed by Trump, have come under congressional scrutiny. — John Solomon.
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Mediaite, @erikwemple, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, @jayrosen_nyu and Fox News
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