Mediagazer: The New York Times' TV show, The Weekly, is now available for US subscribers via its website, five months after launching on FX and Hulu (The New York Times Company)

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.

Discussion: @drvox, @will_bunch, @jakesnyt, @joshuahol, @katestarbird and @whatthebit

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.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, @alexstamos, @puiwingtam and @isaacstonefish, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: CNN, Music Business Worldwide, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Music Industry Blog, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @derektmead, @bgrueskin, Mediaite, @adamgoldmannyt, @wphillips49, @laurawags, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Daily Beast and The Hill

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 …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, American Press Institute, CNN, Talking Biz News, @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

Discussion: New York Times, The Hill, CNN, CBS News, Telegraph, Business Insider and New York Post

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Interview with TV host and film producer Soledad O'Brien on her critiques of journalism in the Trump era, which she often shares to her 1.1M Twitter followers — For Soledad O'Brien, the presidency of Donald Trump has ripped the cover off a lot of things, including the fragility of American democracy …

Discussion: @laurajmg, @frankconniff, @brianstelter, @djrothkopf, Raw Story and WPIX 11 New York

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.

Discussion: @whatthebit and @simonowens, more at Techmeme »

The New York Times Company:

The New York Times' TV show, The Weekly, is now available for US subscribers via its website, five months after launching on FX and Hulu — The latest episode of The Times's TV show, as well as episodes from earlier in the season, are now available to Times subscribers in the U.S.

Hadas Gold / CNN:

While impartiality rules prevent a UK television equivalent to Fox News, Boris Johnson's close ties with The Telegraph means he can always rely on its support — London (CNN Business)Whenever US President Donald Trump turns on Fox News, he'll usually see a stream of positive coverage.

Discussion: @lsenews

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 …

Molly Blackall / The Guardian:

In proposals to Ofcom, BBC seeks to cut the news shown on its children's channel from 85 to 35 hours per year, scrapping the 50-year-old afternoon news segment — Resources to be redeployed at non-TV viewers after ratings for CBBC and CBeebies tumble — Children's news programme Newsround …