Mediagazer: Survey: social media users see the removal of hate speech as more fair than removing profanity, with moderators who removed hate speech seen as more trustworthy (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)

12:10 PM ET, June 19, 2021

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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 …

Discussion: @harrymccracken, @chaykak and @studyhallxyz

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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Alex Sherman / CNBC:

How Roku beat larger companies by focusing on distribution, as it pivots to focus on original programming with plans to spend $1B on content next year — - Roku has out-executed larger companies and leaned on an unusual corporate culture to gain a $45 billion valuation.

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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 …

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

Discussion: TVLine

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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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.

Discussion: @jenniferpreston, @david_sommers, @amuhs, @2hrlunch, @jayrosen_nyu, @digidave, @craignewmark, @tulsi_kamath and @markconley

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 …

Discussion: @krzyzanowskim, ScreenRant, The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget and AppleInsider, more at Techmeme »

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:

Survey: social media users see the removal of hate speech as more fair than removing profanity, with moderators who removed hate speech seen as more trustworthy — News consumers and social media platform users prioritize the removal of hate speech over the removal of profanity …

Discussion: American Press Institute and Center for Media Engagement

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.

Discussion: @melsil, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, @franklinleonard, Vulture, The Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and Variety

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 …

Discussion: @darickr, @oliverdarcy and @tom_mallory

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.

Discussion: Global Investigative … and @gijn

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 …

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Financial Times:
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