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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 …
CNN:
Current and former The Hill employees: owner Jimmy Finkelstein tells editors when Trump coverage too harsh, staff in “revolt” over handling of John Solomon saga — New York (CNN Business)James “Jimmy” Finkelstein, the owner of The Hill newspaper, is not a widely known media executive …
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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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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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Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Amazon expands its free ad-supported version of Amazon Music to its mobile apps, FireTV, and the web, with access to select playlists and radio-like stations — Watch out Spotify: Amazon Music has widened the net of its ‘free’ music streaming platform. — Amazon Music customers without …
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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
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
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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
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as December, initially in Brazil, India, and Indonesia
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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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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 …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sony Pictures Entertainment buys AT&T's 42% stake in Game Show Network in a ~$510M deal, making Sony the sole owner of the network — Sony Pictures Entertainment has bought out AT&T's minority interest in Game Show Network for about $500 million. — The deal makes Sony the sole owner of GSN.
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Jasper Jackson / New Statesman:
BBC and CNN editors reveal how they decide when to send a push notification, which can secure the attention of millions of people at once — The power to reach millions of phones has made deciding when to send a push notification a serious business for news outlets.
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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.
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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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Epstein's death was an injustice, but the press can hold him and alleged enablers to account, as Emily Maitlis showed in her outstanding Prince Andrew interview — In the summer, the arrest and subsequent death, in jail, of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein cast an uncomfortable spotlight …
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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 …
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