Mediagazer: EU's regulators have sent detailed questionnaires to news publishers asking them to describe the scope, duration, and rationale of their data deals with Google (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

4:05 AM ET, December 10, 2019

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:

EU's regulators have sent detailed questionnaires to news publishers asking them to describe the scope, duration, and rationale of their data deals with Google — The European Commission has sent detailed questionnaires to news publishers as it tries to understand whether the way Google collects data …

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Morning Consult: Fox News is the most-watched cable news channel in 299 of the USA's 436 congressional districts by a margin of at least 2 percentage points — Conservative cable giant is most-watched news outlet in nearly 70% of U.S. congressional districts — Morning Consult Illustration by Vladimir Gorshkov

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