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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
2022 Digital News Report: the number of people that say they avoid the news has increased in all markets since 2017, doubling in Brazil to 54% and the UK to 46% — The pandemic brought a bump in news consumption that now seems to be fading away, Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism …
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Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
YouGov survey for Reuters 2022 Digital News Report finds renewed falling trust, more news avoidance, TikTok and Telegram growth for news, and growth in podcasts — Last year's report contained some positive signs for the news industry, with higher consumption and rising trust amidst a second wave of Coronavirus lockdowns.
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Dennis Young / SFGATE:
Fox Sports edited out the first pitch by trans Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider at Saturday's Giants game, instead airing taped video of a NASCAR driver's pitch — On Saturday, Oakland resident and trailblazing “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider threw out the first pitch at the Giants game for Pride Day.
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Sports Illustrated, @dpyoung13, @stevekopack and New York Post
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen plans to add data on consumer reactions to ads to Nielsen One, including successful purchases, website visits, and more — Nielsen has for decades been known as the company that counts people. Now it wants to start counting their reactions. — The media measurement giant …
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Google says 1.5B people watch YouTube Shorts every month; TikTok said it had 1B MAUs in September 2021, growing to an estimated 1.6B MAUs in March 2022 — Alphabet's Google discloses Shorts monthly viewership for first time amid heightened competition from TikTok and Instagram Reels
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Marty Swant / Digiday:
Walmart-owned Sam's Club overhauls its ad network, including adding a self-service platform to let advertisers buy sponsored product ads — As retailers increasingly invest in ways to let advertisers reach consumers on their online properties, Sam's Club is the latest to give its ad network a major overhaul.
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Adweek, MediaPost, Ad Age and @martyswant
Bloomberg:
In a note to staff, Spotify says it will slow hiring growth by 25%; Spotify hired 2,000+ staff from 2019 to 2021 bringing its headcount to 6,617; stock up 7%+ — Spotify Technology SA will slow hiring growth by 25%, the latest sign of how fears of a recession are weighing on the economy.
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount Global says international CEO Raffaele Annecchino is “on leave” effective immediately and appoints three executives to jointly run the business — Three executives will step in to lead the international business as “interim heads.” — Paramount Global said Wednesday …
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Broadband TV News, Deadline and Variety
Financial Times:
Some analysts and rival bidders say they are baffled by Disney passing on Indian Premier League streaming rights while paying $3B for traditional TV rights — US media group loses IPL streaming rights but pays $3bn to air the sport on traditional TV — As leading global media groups lined …
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@lucas_shaw, Bloomberg and @annaknicolaou
James Vincent / The Verge:
YouTube launches a corrections feature, letting creators add infocards at a relevant timestamp — Instead of having to re-upload a whole video — Everyone makes mistakes, but if you mess up a fact or flub a line in a YouTube video it can be hard to correct the error.
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CNET, @caseynewton, Tubefilter and YouTube, more at Techmeme »
Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
Russia bans 29 UK journalists from entering the country for the “spreading of false information”, including the EICs of The Guardian, The Times, and Daily Mail — Military figures and MPs on list along with staff from most major British newspapers and broadcasters
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@lukeharding1968, @ormistononline, @peterrneumann, BBC, Reuters and NPR
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:
A look at Watchdog, a Sri Lanka-based research collective that built a fact-checking app and uses open source data to investigate the country's ongoing crises — From protests to power cuts, Watchdog uses open source research to investigate Sri Lanka's ongoing political and economic crisis.
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@yudhanjaya, @rinachandran, @gavardvalentine and @indulekha_a, more at Techmeme »
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