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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google is in talks with publishers, mostly outside the US, about paying a licensing fee for content that would be in a news product — The search giant is in talks with some publishers about paying a fee for content that would be part of a premium news product
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Facebook to allow influencers to produce sponsored content for US politicians and political campaigns, if the posts are clearly identified as paid partnerships — Bloomberg's bad memes might just be the beginning — Facebook will allow influencers to produce sponsored content …
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
HQ Trivia, the company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game, is shutting down — New York (CNN Business)It's over for HQ Trivia. — The company behind the once-popular live mobile trivia game is shutting down, CNN Business has learned. HQ will part ways with 25 full-time employees.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Text messages, recordings, and interviews show a climate of bullying at Washington Examiner; managing editor Toby Harnden left the conservative outlet on Monday — New York (CNN Business)The shock announcement came on Monday. — Hugo Gurdon, the editor in chief of the Washington Examiner …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Univision in exclusive sale talks at a ~$10B valuation with a bidding group that includes former Viacom CFO Wade Davis and Searchlight Capital Partners — The Spanish-language broadcaster has been running a sales process for months — Univision Communications Inc. is in exclusive sale talks …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A group of podcast publishers including Spotify, NPR, and Wondery form Podcast Academy to promote podcasting, sets its first Golden Mics annual awards for 2021 — The burgeoning podcast biz is looking for its own version of the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys. — On Friday, a group …
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MediaPost:
Analysis finds the average number of channels received by US Nielsen households fell 6.5% YoY to 179.5 in 2019, possibly due to declining cable subscriptions — For only the second time since Nielsen has been reporting data illustrating the effect of TV channel fragmentation …
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Columbia Journalism Review:
CJR and The Delacorte Review launch series of weekly articles on four US towns coping with the loss or reduction of their local newspapers in an election year — This series is copublished with The Delacorte Review, the literary nonfiction journal of the Columbia Journalism School.
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
UK's The House of Lords launches an inquiry seeking information on how journalists can adapt to changing news media landscape and how media can be more trusted — Peers have launched a new inquiry on the future of journalism in the UK. — The House of Lords Committee on Communications …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Pakistan approves new rules for regulating social media; CPJ says the rules hurt journalists' ability to report and communicate with sources — Pakistan's government has approved new rules for regulating social-media content that critics say would give the authorities unflinching powers to stifle dissent and free speech.
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin, two prominent video bloggers chronicling the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, have disappeared — Two video bloggers whose dispatches from the heart of the outbreak showed fear, grief and dissatisfaction with the government have gone silent.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Sinclair Broadcast nears a deal for video streaming service Deltatre to become the digital video provider for Sinclair's 21 regional sports networks — - Deltatre to provide digital video for regional sports networks — Sinclair recently bought 21 RSNs from Disney for $9.6 billion
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