Mediagazer: YouTube launching a paid version of YouTube Music next week at $10/month; YouTube Red being replaced by YouTube Premium at $12/month (Peter Kafka/Recode)

6:50 PM ET, May 17, 2018

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Peter Kafka / Recode:

YouTube launching a paid version of YouTube Music next week at $10/month; YouTube Red being replaced by YouTube Premium at $12/month — YouTube Music is launching Tuesday, and YouTube Red is going away. It's being replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

The New York Times admits it buried information about the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign in a front-page story just before the 2016 election — The upside of the New York Times' aggressive coverage of the FBI investigation into Russian election meddling is that the American public …

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Trey Williams / The Wrap:

CBS board of directors votes to issue dividend that would dilute Redstone family's interest from about 80% to 20% and postpones annual meeting — Decision made in a unanimous vote of the directors not affiliated with National Amusements — CBS Corporation's board of directors voted …

Discussion: New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, @cnbcnow and MediaPost

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Judge rules in favor of Redstone family's National Amusements, allowing them to keep tight control over CBS ahead of planned board meeting

Discussion: Variety, BloombergQuint, Bloomberg, CNNMoney and @brianstelter

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge blocks Redstone's National Amusements from changing voting structure of CBS until a further court ruling can be made

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Wall Street Journal:
The Redstone family, through National Amusements, amends CBS bylaws in an effort to block the board's ability to dilute its voting power to stop Viacom merger

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap and Deadline

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

Fox News names Suzanne Scott as its new CEO; Scott was previously president for programming and development — Fox News has named Suzanne Scott as its new Chief Executive Officer, the company announced on Thursday. — “Suzanne has been instrumental in the success of Fox News …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Multichannel News, The Daily Beast, Hollywood Reporter, @claireatki, Variety, @nycsouthpaw, BBC, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and CNNMoney

Max Willens / Digiday:

Gizmodo Media Group launches The Inventory, a commerce site with product guides, travel deals, and more, with an initial staff of four — Gizmodo Media Group turned commerce content into revenue before it was cool by serving up deals and focusing relentlessly on what its audience wanted.

Discussion: MediaPost, The Inventory, Fusion Media Group and @raju

Rael Ombuor / Voice of America:

Kenya passes broadly worded cybercrime law that criminalizes online bullying and “fake news” with potential penalty of two years in jail and/or up to $50K fine — Kenya has approved a controversial new cybercrimes law that threatens heavy penalties for people who abuse others via social media …

Discussion: Reuters, BusinessLIVE and Freedom House

Andrew Rice / Wired:

Profile of the FCC chairman Ajit Pai, a nerdy conservative ideologue reviled by some and cast as a hero by others for orchestrating net neutrality repeal — IN MARCH, AJIT Pai, the 45-year-old chair of the Federal Communications Commission, took to the internet—a community he joyfully inhabits …

Discussion: Fortune, The Wrap, @alexwhitcomb, Broadcasting & Cable and Free Press, more at Techmeme »

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Senate narrowly votes to block Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules; the resolution next heads to the House, where it faces long odds

Discussion: Recode, UPROXX, PEN America, @superwuster, @dougjones, @senduckworth, @ktetch, @jbrodkin and Axios

BuzzFeed:

YouTube's Super Chats, which allow paid comments on live streams, are partially underwriting videos with hate speech; YouTube says it will revisit policies — During one livestream, someone using the screen name National Socialist spent $100 to display the message “WHITE PRIDE WORLD WIDE!”

Discussion: @gadyepstein, @chantalbraganza, @craigsilverman, @veille_nc, @alextohme, @mrbrianhughes and The Hill, more at Techmeme »

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

Digital radio audience surpasses FM and AM radio in the UK for the first time in Q1 2018 in part thanks to Alexa; listening online and via apps grew 17% YoY — Smart speakers influence debate about switching off analogue signal in UK — The popularity of Amazon's Echo smart speakers …

Discussion: @louisen91316

The GroundTruth Project:

Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms, announces its full 2018 class of 13 journalists — NEW YORK — Report for America, a non-partisan national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms, has announced its complete Class of 2018.

Discussion: Report for America, Chicago Sun Times, @report4america, @obedmanuel and @groundtruth

Deadline Detroit:

Reporters and ex-students detail history of inappropriate behavior by Jack Lessenberry, head of Wayne State's comms dept., Toledo writing coach, and MPR analyst — The authors, 2004 graduates of Wayne State University, are freelance writers and former students of Jack Lessenberry.

Discussion: @apstamm, @thomasmorgan, @nwarikoo, @bladeguild, Deadline Detroit, @chadlivengood, Deadline Detroit and @wynneeverett

Lisa Richwine / Reuters:

Netflix on track to release 86+ original films in 2018, more than the top four studios combined, says 33 films released this year have been watched 300M+ times — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theaters, Netflix Inc is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home.

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fortune

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