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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.
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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@kerrymflynn:
Insider internal memo: all posts must now be under 600 words, except for those from the investigations team, features writers, and a few other exceptions — A new editorial strategy at Insider: Limiting most stories to under 600 words, per Nicholas Carlson memo “Data shows that [our readers] like short stories... It's OK (and even encouraged!) to write several posts on the same topic from several angles when you have a lot to say.” https://twitter.com/...
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: WSJ will shutter its Greater New York section in print and digital and launch a Life & Work section and Speed & Trending desk — Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the following on Thursday:
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Janet Malcolm, author and New Yorker staff writer, has died of lung cancer — Her subjects ranged widely, but she took special aim at journalism itself, writing that every journalist “knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” — Janet Malcolm, a longtime writer for The New Yorker …
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: NYT and The Athletic have ended their acquisition talks because the companies couldn't agree on a price — The New York Times and subscription sports news site The Athletic have ended their acquisition talks, according to people familiar with the matter.
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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
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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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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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a formal investigation into Google's digital advertising business before the end of the year — Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google could face its biggest regulatory threat, with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation …
Natacha Yazbeck / Columbia Journalism Review:
The stringers who help news organizations in Syria face physical, institutional, and economic precarity — On February 22, 2012, journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik were killed in a government attack on a media center in Baba Amr, Syria. On August 19, 2014 …
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Financial Times:
Sources: UK government is planning to open consultations within weeks with the aim of privatizing Channel 4 by the end of next year — Advent of streaming likely to affect any sale price of channel funded solely by advertising — Channel 4 will be steered towards privatisation …
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