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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku adds 23 more Quibi shows to The Roku Channel and says Nielsen estimates it ranked as the No. 6 streaming channel by household reach in the US in June — On Aug. 13, the company will premiere 23 new Roku Originals (each of them from Quibi's library) exclusively on the Roku Channel to stream for free with ads.
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The Streamable, The Wrap, @xpangler, Adweek, Light Reading, CNBC, deadline.com and @claireatki
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud / Columbia Journalism Review:
How nine news outlets used automation for reporting on the pandemic, from continuously updated charts to automated stories sent to Slack for journalists' review — For all the news organizations that have adopted automated journalism over the last decade or so, the COVID-19 pandemic …
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datajournalism.com, @gijn and @danzonchambaud
Scott Deveau / Bloomberg:
Activist investor Dan Loeb says his optimism of Disney+ has borne out, calls for Disney theatrical content to stream on Disney+ for no extra fee on release day — Activist investor Dan Loeb is calling on the Walt Disney Co. to do more to leverage its leadership position in sports …
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@brasstackscap, ValueWalk and @business
Lizzie Widdicombe / Vogue:
Profile of Jen Psaki, who some White House reporters credit with “lower[ing] the temperature” even as her briefings are not “exceptionally informative” — It's a summer Friday. President Biden is at his Delaware beach house, where he delivered a brief speech about that morning's encouraging jobs numbers.
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@jacoblongstl, @sabrinasingh46, @emilylgoodin and @kmunoz46
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish Network reports Q2 revenue of $4.49B, up from $3.19B YoY; pay TV subs dropped by 67K, compared to a 96K drop in Q2 2020, as Sling TV added 65K subs — The company, led by chairman Charlie Ergen and CEO Erik Carlson, gained Sling TV users, but lost Dish TV customers.
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The Streamable, MediaPost and PR Newswire
Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg:
Sources: Cloud Village, the music streaming arm of Chinese gaming giant NetEase, is postponing the launch of its $1B Hong Kong IPO — - Cloud Village tested investor demand for the IPO last week — Tech shares have been hit by Chinese regulatory clampdown
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Reuters, more at Techmeme »
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As trackers, webcams, and other internet-of-things devices become cheaper and more user-friendly, they could become standard tools in journalists' toolkits — Want to find out what the city is doing with homeless people's belongings when it “clears” an encampment? An answer's now just $29 away.
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@mikeelgan, @niemanfdn, MediaPost, @niemanlab and @jbenton
Azi Paybarah / New York Times:
How Gov. Cuomo's hometown paper The Albany Times Union's anti-off-the-record stance put it on a collision course with the notoriously press-controlling governor — The Times Union's strait-laced, minimal-schmooze, no off-the-record principles put it on a collision course with the notoriously press-controlling governor of New York.
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@susannecraig, @jdawsey1, @adamnagourney, @cezary, @loritodd, @rmc031, Poynter, CNN, @whodatgirl_2bd, @eisingerj, @stephaniemlee, @harrysiegel, @alexburnsnyt, @biancajoanie and New York Post
Reporters Without Borders:
19 journalists from 7 countries who were listed as possible spyware targets have filed complaints against NSO Group in Paris with RSF; cases also referred to UN — Seventeen journalists from seven countries who were listed as potential or actual victims of Pegasus spyware have filed complaints …
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The Wire, @msuiche, @pranesh and @rebecca_vincent
Max Willens / Digiday:
Parsely study of 1,400 publishers: in H1, traffic to sites that have 30K to 1M page views per month was down 40% compared to 2019 and down 27% at smaller sites — Going into 2020, publishers wondered whether their site traffic, after being lifted all year by a nearly relentless news cycle, might come down to earth.
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@lmoses, @elanazak, @chrismoranuk, @niemanlab, @dcnorg and What's New in Publishing
Jaden Edison / Poynter:
Interview with Stacy-Marie Ishmael, ex-EIC of Texas Tribune, on her experience of navigating 2020 as a newsroom leader and professional burnout — Working through one crisis after another presents questions about sustainability, not just burnout. … When Stacy-Marie Ishmael moved to Austin …
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@johnauthers, @sandi, @millie, @steven_aquino, @alissa_ambrose, @poynter, @poynter, @poynter, @rsm, @cd_hooks, @mitrakalita, @editwithemily, @tiffmkelly, @kamirieck, @cindyroyal, @andreapsalcedo, @stephmsolis, @kristenhare, @kimbui, @peterlattman, Talking Biz News, @jswatz, @itsren, @poynter and @poynter
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate” — The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
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