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10:15 PM ET, May 16, 2022

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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Marriott launches the Marriott Media Network in partnership with Yahoo to help advertisers target consumers on its hotel websites and the TVs in their rooms  —  Marriott will use anonymized data on its guests to help brands target their ads.  Walmart, Kroger, DoorDash and others have taken similar tacks …
New York Times:
Paradise Media sells literary magazine The Believer to its original owner McSweeney's at a “meaningful” loss, after a fan backlash over clickbait content  —  The magazine, bought by a marketing company, briefly hosted clickbait content.  Scandal ensued.
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
A look at C-SPAN's social media and monetization efforts as its cable fee revenue, 98% of its budget, has fallen from a $70M peak to an estimated <$50M in 2022  —  Jeremy Art recently discovered a potentially click-generating social-media innovation: the adjective.  —  Art, 39, runs social media for C-SPAN.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Ahead of the US midterms, some major media polls are reaching respondents via texts and the mail to supplement phone calling, after presidential election misses  —  CHICAGO — The polling industry is on the precipice of its biggest change in decades, as pollsters try to battle back from consecutive presidential election failures.
Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:
Deadline says it won't publish an interview with Cannes head Thierry Frémaux, after the festival demanded copy approval and removed answers about diversity  —  Long a bastion of artistic freedom, the Cannes Film Festival has a secret: it censors interviews with festival head Thierry Frémaux.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Source: Netflix executives met with major theater chains to test releasing movies with a longer window, likely 45 days, in thousands of theaters later in 2022  —  Netflix Inc. was absent when Hollywood executives gathered in Las Vegas late last month to preview the year ahead in movies, at least officially.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify confirms it is testing a feature that lets select artists promote “third-party NFT offerings” on their profiles, visible to Android users in the US  —  Artists can already promote merch and tickets on their Spotify profiles.  Now the streaming service is testing a feature that will let them also promote their NFTs.
 
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Bill Curry / Globe and Mail:
Google says Canada's proposed Online News Act amounts to a “link tax” that would “break” its search engine; Google made similar claims against Australia's code
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Snap head of originals Vanessa Guthrie plans to leave at the end of June 2022, to be replaced by Snap Originals production head Anjuli Millan
Discussion: Tubefilter
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Writers Guild's CBS News Union ratifies a new three-year agreement, with 2% minimum wage increases for staffers, more severance pay for long-term staffers, more
Discussion: Deadline
New York Times:
As the TV industry prepares to pitch advertisers in-person at upfronts for the first time in three years, a look at how the entertainment industry has changed
Columbia Journalism Review:
The Knight Institute creates a “reading room” to make the DOJ's OLC memos, which contain legal opinions shaping government agency policies, publicly accessible
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The Buffalo shooting suspect allegedly endorsed “great replacement theory”, a once-fringe racist idea promoted by Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and others
Aaron Moss / Copyright Lately:
Senator Hawley's copyright bill targeting Disney is riddled with problems, and some media organizations reported on it as if his talking points were facts
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Pulitzer Prizes' descriptions of winners have become effusive paragraphs with many adjectives, reflecting a movement to make the citations “stronger over time”
Discussion: @jackshafer
New York Times:
Ukraine wins the Eurovision Song Contest, as European viewers and juries delivered an endorsement of solidarity, after organizers banned Russia this year
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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