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3:40 PM ET, May 15, 2018

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Tom Wolfe, the journalist and author who helped create the 1960s movement known as “The New Journalism”, has died at age 88 — Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers …

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

SCOTUS declines to hear “podcasting patent” case Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, handing win to EFF, after the patent was invalidated in 2015 — Back in 2015, Personal Audio's claimed patent was invalidated by a federal court.

Discussion: Electronic Frontier Foundation, RAIN News, AppleInsider and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

A study of 2 print and 2 digital-born news outlets in each of 11 European countries shows 41% of bylines were by male reporters and 23% from female reporters — Across 11 countries studied, 41 percent of bylines were male, 23 percent female. — It's the era of #metoo …

Discussion: European Journalism …, @laurahazardowen, @ejonews, @ejonews, @maevemcc, @julieposetti, @fill_litfest, @cityjournalism, @nilanjanaroy, @louiseridley and @zziomecka

Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:

Betting-focused channels and fantasy sites expected to crowd the media field with the SCOTUS decision to allow states to offer sports betting — TVG, HRTV, WinView ready to pounce on opportunity — The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to offer sports gambling services …

Emily Smith / Page Six:

Sources: Bill O'Reilly is in talks to return to cable news at Newsmax TV, one year after being forced out from Fox News amid sexual harassment allegations — Bill O'Reilly is in talks to head back to cable news in his old 8 p.m. slot, but this time at Newsmax TV, sources exclusively tell Page Six.

Discussion: TVWeek.com, The New York Observer, @damonlinker, @davidsirota, @desijed, @elle_chiefelk, @timothypmurphy, @karoli, Decider, Business Insider, @corennacornwell, @colincampbell and @daweiner

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Consolidation of newsrooms by companies that own multiple TV stations in one market is creating uniformity of coverage, lessening watchdog power of local media — As big chains gobble up small TV stations, merged newsrooms are creating a uniformity of news coverage.

Discussion: @renato_mariotti and @daneggenwpost

The Guardian:

Facebook releases first content moderation report, closed 583M fake accounts in Q1 2018, took action on almost 1.5B accounts and 2.5M instances of hate speech — Firm's first quarterly moderation report also shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence — Facebook took moderation action …

Discussion: Facebook, Adweek, VentureBeat, Fortune, Engadget and @alexhern, more at Techmeme »

Jason Schwartz / Politico:

Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti threatened to sue conservative outlet The Daily Caller News Foundation after they published a report on him — Stormy Daniels's lawyer calls out Daily Caller News Foundation for alleged “hit pieces.” — On Sunday, a national news outlet published …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Techdirt

Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:

Profile of David Brody, correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, who receives access to Trump while giving a direct line to an evangelical audience — David Brody has unusual access to the president. In return, Mr. Trump gets a direct line to the evangelical audience he depends on.

BuzzFeed:

Google News bug means BBC News articles are dominating search results for “news” by UK users, to the detriment of other publishers; Google working on a fix — It comes days after Google announced big changes in how it ranks news publishers.

Discussion: @dimblebot, @robmanuel, @chrismoranuk, @charliebeckett and @markdistef

Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the ten journalists killed in Afghanistan on April 30, nine of whom died in a suicide bomb blast, based on interviews with the people who knew them — The funeral of AFP photographer Shah Marai. Photo courtesy Andrew Quilty. — It was the deadliest day for journalists in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime.

Discussion: @cjr and @malalibashir

Paul Boyle / News Media Alliance:

Bipartisan group of ten senators debut PRINT act, to try to suspend new tariffs being imposed on US news industry's main source of paper, which is from Canada — Bill Would Suspend Newsprint Tariffs While Government Studies Effects on U.S. Industries — Arlington, Va. - Today …

Discussion: Editor & Publisher

Rich Lord / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

PCP Editor Charlie Deitch says he was fired after being told he could no longer write about a GOP state lawmaker, who was a client of paper's parent company — The Pittsburgh City Paper, which has been among the region's most unabashedly liberal publications, fired its editor-in-chief today …

Discussion: Pittsburgh City Paper, @charliedee71, @pghpadeb, @libbycwatson, @moshemarvit, @margaretcwelsh, @lokay, @charliedee71, @craigmeyerpg, @stephanierit and @cpotterpgh

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Sam Forsdick / Press Gazette:
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Minute Media, which operates a number of user-generated sports sites that attract 80M-90M users per month, raises $17M Series F led by Goldman Sachs and others

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Committee to Protect Journalists:
At least seven Palestinian reporters injured by Israeli gunfire while covering protests marking the 70th anniversary of what Israel says is its independence day

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Bloomberg:
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Thu-Huong Ha / Quartz:
Amazon's control of the self-published ebook industry means authors lose negotiating power and publishers can't compete on pricing or receive data on what sells

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says ~85% of new spending to go toward original content, plans to have about 1,000 originals total by the end of 2018

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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
How WhatsApp is being used to spread misinformation, share fake polls, and exacerbate religious divides ahead of national elections in India

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Seb Joseph / Digiday:
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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ urges Kenyan president to not sign a bill that would target journalists, bloggers, and others with jail and fines for publishing “false” information

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Hill's John Solomon to become an “opinion contributor”, following recent complaints by colleagues over stories they thought lacked context and rigor

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Ernst-Jan Pfauth / De Correspondent:
Omidyar Network grants The Correspondent $950K in runway funding, bringing total to $1.8M, as the membership model outlet plans English-language launch

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New York Times:
Americans 25-34 spend 18.4 hours a week watching live TV while those 50-64 watch 39.6 hours; national TV ad sales peaked in 2016 at $43B but fell 2.2% last year

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Financial Times:
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Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

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