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Steven Monacelli / Nieman Lab:
Advantage Informatics, which has a contract with Gannett to provide “advertorial content”, has deep ties to “pink slime” sites from Brian Timpone's Metric Media — An executive from a company associated with Metric Media was hired to teach journalism, but the story doesn't end there.
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Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
An Iranian court clears Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi of accusations of plagiarism from a former student for his 2021 film A Hero — Two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi has been fully cleared by an Iranian court of allegations of plagiarism pertaining to his film “A Hero” …
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Steve Knopper / Billboard:
Universal Music changed Pandora royalty payments from a 50% split via SoundExchange to often-smaller splits paid directly by UMG, hurting newer artists' revenue — The company is the only major label so far to change accounting for Pandora royalties since it introduced on-demand streaming.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Ukraine's Media Development Foundation executives on increased news desertification in wartime, trouble hiring personnel and diversifying revenue, more — Two years ago last month, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The consequences for the latter country's press …
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Andrey Boborykin on LinkedIn, @jon_allsop and @ifjglobal
Emma Roth / The Verge:
In an email to the European Commission, Spotify says Apple is holding up an iPhone app update that adds pricing information and links to subscriptions — In an email to the European Commission obtained by The Verge, Spotify writes that Apple has “neither acknowledged nor responded to Spotify's submission” …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: The Wall Street Journal names Elena Cherney as senior editor, leading the Standards and Ethics team and championing press freedom and free speech — Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Thursday: — Dear all, — I am delighted to announce …
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Financial Times:
How the UK Conservative party establishment fought to frustrate RedBird's UAE-backed Telegraph bid; sources say Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch had a key role — Rishi Sunak's ‘hand was forced’ as PM acts to change law to stop foreign states from buying media groups
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Pornhub blocks access to users in Texas, after a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law last week requiring porn sites to institute age-verification measures — Pornhub and other affiliated adult websites have blocked access to users in Texas, amid a legal battle with the Lone Star State's attorney general …
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Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Meta plans to shut down CrowdTangle in August 2024, to be replaced by Meta Content Library for academic and nonprofit researchers, but not most news outlets — CrowdTangle, a source for embarrassing articles about Facebook and Instagram, has been used to track conspiracy theories, viral content
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Ex-employees of Mexico's shuttered state news agency, Notimex, launch the Mexican Association of Information, which will operate as a worker cooperative — Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had said last year that there no need for a state news agency since he conducts daily press briefings.
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Reuters:
UN report: Israel violated international law by firing at a group of “clearly identifiable journalists” on October 13, killing Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah — An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of …
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Yasir Khan on LinkedIn and Talking Biz News
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
The FCC adopts a rule requiring cable and satellite TV providers to show the total price in ads and bills, including fees for regional sports programming — - Consumer charges have been targeted under President Biden — Cable industry calls rule unneeded and costly to implement
The Information:
ByteDance investors, reassessing what the company's value would be without TikTok, estimate that TikTok lost several billion dollars in 2023 on revenue of ~$20B — TikTok, facing a growing threat of a U.S. ban, has been a global juggernaut over the past few years, drawing more than a billion monthly users …
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Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure
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