Mediagazer: Sources: Trump personally pushed US Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other companies (Washington Post)

10:25 PM ET, May 18, 2018

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Sources: Trump personally pushed US Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other companies — President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms …

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Sources: bidding for Meredith's Time magazine nears $200M, with Fortune and Money together drawing similar bids — Selloff activities and employee purges continued at Meredith this week. — Sources say Citigroup is lining up management presentations for next week for potential suitors interested …

Discussion: New York Post and Mediawire

Janelle Irwin / Tampa Bay Business Journal: Meredith to lay off 621 people starting in July as it closes three former Time customer service operations centers in Florida

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Inside Coleman-Rayner, the paparazzi agency that conducted negative research on Weinstein's rape accuser and staged photographs of Meghan Markle's father — When Prince Harry finally marries Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle on Saturday, it'll be no thanks to the celebrity gossip and picture agency …

Discussion: Variety, Broadcasting & Cable and Ad Age

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Media outlets plan saturation coverage of the royal wedding: Snapchat is producing a four-part series with TLC, BBC and CNN will stream for free early Saturday — The British royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — the first American princess in generations — is a global-zeitgeist event made-to-order for social media.

Discussion: Ad Age, Broadcasting & Cable, Fast Company, Recode, CNNMoney, Hollywood Life, Fortune, The Ringer, MediaPost, Folio and @ranimolla

Jonathan Randles / Wall Street Journal:

Judge says he will approve agreement between Thiel and Gawker Media, declines Gizmodo's request to prevent Thiel from funding future lawsuits against it — Agreement ends wrangling with the billionaire who funded the Hulk Hogan privacy lawsuit that sent Gawker into bankruptcy

Discussion: Reuters

Jessi Hempel / Wired:

A look at the history of Facebook's Internet.org project, which it says has brought 100M online, from its 2013 debut to Free Basics — Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn't go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition.

Discussion: @lkherman, @jessiwrites, @sdkstl, @eringriffith and @karengeier

Lara O'Reilly / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Google to meet with publishers on May 24 to discuss concerns that GDPR-related changes will make Google even more dominant in digital advertising — Google invites publishers to meetings at four of its global offices on May 24. — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to meet …

Discussion: Ad Age

MediaPost:

Nielsen to add a separate data stream that will include one day of delayed viewing to account for time-shifted local TV views, available from July — After years of pushing to account for time-shifted local TV viewing by TV station executives, Nielsen says it will offer a separate data stream …

Sahil Patel / Digiday:

Publishers prefer YouTube over platforms like Facebook because of predictable success parameters, longer shelf life of evergreen content, deeper user engagement — Sometimes, being reliable goes a long way — and for smaller publishers looking to grow sustainable video businesses, that means focusing on YouTube.

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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Alleged owners of Mugshots.com, a site that publishes mugshots and demands payment for removal, arrested on extortion, money laundering, identity theft charges — Mugshots.com is a “business permeated with fraud,” California AG says. — Two alleged owners of Mugshots.com …

Discussion: California Attorney …, The Guardian, @kristenclarkejd, Boing Boing, @rebeccavallas, Gizmodo and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

News Media Alliance says Facebook's political ad rules would lump ads purchased by news orgs to promote articles on political topics with political messaging — Saying rules are too broad, media outlets fear ads promoting news stories will be lumped in with political messaging

Discussion: VentureBeat

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook to start testing ads in Stories today in the US, Mexico, and Brazil, says Stories has 150M daily users, defines a user as anyone who watches one story — After 14 months of silence since launching, Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone.

Discussion: Marketing Dive, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, Variety, Adweek and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:

Sources: Dianne Brandi, Fox News' EVP of legal and business affairs, continues to quietly work for the company, despite repeated claims she is on leave — From Fox hosts' lips to the president's ears — A top Fox News executive who has been named in harassment lawsuits over allegations …

Discussion: Los Angeles Business Journal, @oliverdarcy, @perlberg and Newser

Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Fox News names Suzanne Scott as its new CEO; Scott was previously president for programming and development

Discussion: New York Times, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, Splinter, The Daily Caller, CNNMoney and @lisabloom

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Andrea Tantaros loses a lawsuit against Fox News as judge rejects her wiretapping claims that alleged computer hacking and surreptitious recording of women

Discussion: The Wrap, USA Today, The Hill, CNNMoney, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline, Variety, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, The Wrap and Law & Crime

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Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review:
As deepfakes rise, journalists with forensic training could act as trusted validators and should codify transparent verification procedures for video and text

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook announces partnership with US-based think tank Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world

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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Accepting funding from Google and Facebook raises tough questions for media and researchers about influence, conflict of interest, and working with competitors

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube TV adds channels for Tastemade and TYT Network, with 10 new series from Tastemade in 2018 and four new shows from TYT at launch

Discussion: The Daily Caller, TechCrunch, Multichannel News, Mediaite and VideoInk

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

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