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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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@whatthebit
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, Music Industry Blog, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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Raymond Zhong / New York Times:
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, says 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, @alexstamos, Wall Street Journal, @puiwingtam and @isaacstonefish, 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, CNN, American Press Institute, @fitzthereporter, @brianstelter and @jboren4507
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 »
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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Mediaite, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and The Daily Beast
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, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, @jayrosen_nyu and Fox News
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 …
Mike Murphy / Quartz:
Profile of Mixhalo, an app which aims to improve sound quality at concerts by sending Hi-Fi audio directly from the soundboard to attendees' phones — Think back to the first time you saw a high-definition TV program. — After a lifetime of looking at standard-definition shows …
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@dangillmor
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon is shortening the theatrical release window and not reporting box office numbers for some films, including The Report — The new policy — which mirrors Netflix's strategy — will apply to such awards contenders as ‘The Report’ and ‘The Aeronauts.’ — Don't bother asking Alexa …
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@thatrebecca
Brandon Katz / Observer:
A look at growing soundstage scarcity and the deals studios are making to secure space as the number of productions rises; in LA, stage occupancy is topping 90% — , minor bad guy Steven Reign tells the story of the red dragon. According to him, a small, wealthy village in China hired …
Johannes Munter / News Media Alliance:
Interviews, studies, and data indicate that the 2014 Google News shutdown in Spain only temporarily lowered traffic and led to organic traffic growth — Earlier this year, the European Union adopted its new Copyright Directive that modernizes and harmonizes copyright laws across the EU.
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@wnip, @epc_angela, @jason_kint, @newsalliance and @baekdal
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