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John Koblin / New York Times:
Nielsen announces a new metric, The Gauge, to measure streaming viewing in ~14,000 US homes via hardware that watches internet traffic passing through a router — The company known for measuring television ratings said Netflix and YouTube are far ahead of their digital rivals …
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Nielsen: in May, US viewers used their TVs for streaming 26% of the time, up from 20% in 2020, 14% in 2019; 64% of the time was spent on network and cable TV — - Streaming accounts for 26% of all time spent on TV, according to new data from Nielsen. — Network and cable TV still hold strong, accounting for 64% of time spent.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Lessons from Lookout Santa Cruz, six months after its launch in an Alden market, and how civic betterment is key to the revival of local news — We don't wake up each morning to compete with a print daily, but rather to run our own local news and community model. That's the key.
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Stacy Perman / Los Angeles Times:
Two members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association resigned in protest calling diversity reform efforts “window-dressing” — Calling the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. “toxic” and its reform efforts “window-dressing,” two members of the group that votes on the Golden Globe Awards resigned in protest Thursday.
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Josh Noel / @hopnotes:
[Thread] About 40 people, or about 24% of Chicago Tribune's newsroom, are taking buyouts offered by Alden Global Capital just after it gained full control — About 24% of Chicago Tribune reporters are taking next week's buyout.
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Sami Fathi / MacRumors:
YouTube says it is rolling out picture-in-picture support for YouTube Premium users on iOS and plans to launch the feature for all iOS users in the US — After a long wait, YouTube for iOS is officially gaining picture-in-picture support, allowing all users, non-premium and premium subscribers …
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Washington Post:
OAN correspondent Christina Bobb helped raise money to pay for lawmakers to visit Arizona and has been granted extensive access to the Arizona audit — One America News correspondent Christina Bobb had some exciting news to share from the scene of the Arizona GOP-led audit of the 2020 presidential vote …
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Kate Lindsay / Study Hall:
A look at Puck, the secretive subscription-based digital pub from three media veterans, and its incoming staff roster including Julie Ioffe and Teddy Schleifer — The first rule of working at the new media company Puck is you don't talk about Puck. — Two months after The New York Times …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Roku says from May 20 to June 3, more Roku viewers streamed a Roku Original than Quibi users who streamed Quibi shows during the nine months of Quibi's lifetime — Roku has revealed viewership data for its original programming, much of which was powered by the acquisition of Quibi's library last January.
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Júlio Lubianco / LatAm Journalism Review:
16.7% of Argentinians live in places with no independent press outlet; 52.2% of neighborhoods in the capital Buenos Aires have no local press — In Argentina, 6,600,000 people, equivalent to 16.7 percent of the population, live in places where there is no independent press outlet, that is, in news deserts.
Jeremy Borden / The Assembly:
Nine months after Chatham Asset Management took control of McClatchy, a look at the chain's NC papers amid a competitive, challenging business environment — But as North Carolina faces a dire local news and information crisis, the papers' new ownership, shrinking footprint …
Reuters:
Hong Kong charges Apple Daily chief editor and chief executive with collusion with a foreign country; three more executives remain under investigation — Hong Kong police charged the chief editor and chief executive of pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on Friday with collusion with a foreign country …
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Zen Soo / Associated Press:
Hong Kong police arrested Apple Daily EIC Ryan Law and four other execs under the national security law on Thursday, and officers searched the outlet's offices
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