Mediagazer: CBS and Viacom finalized their merger after market close Wednesday, combining CBS with Paramount, alongside Viacom channels including MTV and Nickelodeon (Tim Baysinger/The Wrap)

9:15 AM ET, December 5, 2019

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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:

CBS and Viacom finalized their merger after market close Wednesday, combining CBS with Paramount, alongside Viacom channels including MTV and Nickelodeon — CBS and Viacom are finally, really, back to together. Less than four months after announcing their intentions to rejoin as one company …

Discussion: New York Times, Variety, Variety, Ad Age, Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, @manologvergara, @nickandmore, @nytimesbusiness, TVNewser, Multichannel News, CNN, Adweek and Forbes

Matt Day / Bloomberg:

Amazon Web Services reaches multiyear deal with Fox to transmit content to TV customers and streaming services, replacing 90s-era infrastructure — - Multi-year deal makes AWS Fox's official cloud provider — Fox Corp. is turning to Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud to route video to the broadcaster's cable …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, @mattmday and @erinscafe

Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:

Ogury, a mobile ad network featuring a consent management platform for publishers to manage consent, raises $50M led by Idinvest Partners, for a total of $92M — Mobile data company Ogury raised $50 million in Series C funding on Thursday with an eye on international expansion and consumer privacy-related R&D.

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Variety:

Jermaine Hall, who has held leadership posts at Vibe, BET, and more, launches a new culture publication, LEVEL, on Medium, the platform's seventh launch of 2019 — Jermaine Hall, who has held executive editorial posts at Vibe, XXL, BET and King, today announced a new culture …

Discussion: Level, @levelmag, @jermainehall, @ev and @adriana_lacy

Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:

As tech companies embrace fact-checking to prove they are active in trying to stop misinfo, fact-checking orgs' association with traditional media is weakening — Has our investment in debunking worked? — Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, of which it's a very small amount …

Discussion: American Press Institute, @emilybell, @joegermuska, @cjr, @emilybell, @emilybell, @daviduberti and @emilybell

Will Oremus / OneZero:

A study by Avaaz may have overstated the problem of false stories on Facebook, but it also revealed cracks, loopholes, and limitations in Facebook's systems — Three and a half years after the pope endorsed President Donald Trump (or didn't), Facebook has put in a lot of work to clean up its News Feed.

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Marton Dunai / Reuters:

Six international press watchdogs say the EU should take action against Hungary as it has “systematically dismantled media independence” under Viktor Orban — BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has stifled its independent media and imposed a level of control over journalists …

Discussion: International Press Institute, @penamerica, @peterbale, @risj_oxford, @pressfreedom, @pressfreedom, @panyiszabolcs and Committee to Protect …

Ravi Somaiya / Columbia Journalism Review:

Digital journalists at respectable news outlets play a role in amplifying false videos and other social media junk; they should thoroughly report before posting — At 1:15pm Eastern on Wednesday, May 22, a Trump supporter named Shawn Brooks posted a video on Facebook called “Is Nancy Pelosi drunk?”

Discussion: @mikeh_pr, @beschizza, @daciampaglia, @ravisomaiya and @mathewi

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Two jury members for the Data Journalism Awards, once run by the closed Global Editors Network, are planning new awards sponsored by The Google News Initiative — If you're seeking a community around data journalism, fear not: Several are bubbling up in the wake of the Global Editors Network's closure, which was announced a month ago.

Discussion: @smfrogers and @pilhofer

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

UK's The Daily Telegraph says it now has 420K paying subs, the first time it's had more subs online than in print, and aims to add 100K more by October 2020 — The Telegraph now has more paying subscribers online than in print for the first time in its 164-year history.

Discussion: @lalpert1 and Wall Street Journal

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:

Washington Post launches El Washington Post, its first Spanish-language news podcast aimed at a global audience, with 20-minute episodes on Tuesdays and Fridays — The Washington Post published the first episode of its new Spanish-language podcast today, its latest effort to expand …

Discussion: Digiday, @niemanlab, @verambergen, MediaPost, Washingtonian and Washington Post

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple News launches a daily email newsletter with summaries written by Apple's editorial team — Apple News is expanding its mail notifications with a new ‘Good Morning’ daily newsletter. Previously, users could opt in to receive email alerts from Apple News about select featured stories.

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