Mediagazer: Twitter announces live streaming content deals with Univision, WSJ, and Time and new initiatives with previous partners including Viacom, the NFL, and ESPN (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Twitter announces live streaming content deals with Univision, WSJ, and Time and new initiatives with previous partners including Viacom, the NFL, and ESPN — - Twitter Expands Live-Streaming Video Lineup, Sets Content Deals With Viacom, ESPN, Live Nation, Univision, and More

Discussion: Variety, CNET, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Tubefilter, Deadline and Adweek, more at Techmeme »

Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:

YouTube gets exclusive rights to stream 13 MLB games in the 2nd half of the season in the US and Canada on MLB's YouTube channel and a new YouTube TV channel — - Package of 13 games will run through second half of MLB season — YouTube TV has been World Series presenting sponsor since 2017

Discussion: Variety and Engadget

Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:

At NewFronts, The New York Times says The Daily podcast has reached 2M listeners per day, talks ad targets, smart speakers, and its upcoming food festival — The New York Times announced new ad target offerings and events, as well as an emphasis on its TV-film commitment at its NewFront this morning.

Discussion: WWD

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

New York Times ends relationship with CartoonArts, the cartoon syndication service that supplied the anti-Semitic cartoon — A ‘Times’ spokesperson told The Daily Beast exclusively about the paper's decision to stop using syndicated cartoons, including those from the syndicator of the offensive cartoon.

Discussion: Poynter, Newser, Breitbart, New York Post, New York Times and The Daily Caller

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

On paid email newsletter platforms, small audiences are translating to dollars for writers, such as on Substack, where the 12 top earners make $160K+ on average — As writers gravitate toward paid email newsletters, small audiences translate to meaningful dollars.

Discussion: @tonyajoriley, @rachelysanders and @elizabethminkel, more at Techmeme »

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Facebook to give 60+ academics around the world access to its data for projects on news polarization, disinformation, and more — Facebook knows it screwed up, is trying to do better, and is spending some of this year actually listening to critiques and suggestions (supposedly).

Discussion: Financial Times, @nanjala1, items.ssrc.org, Facebook, The Week, @niemanlab, @mshannahmurphy, @kadhimshubber, SOCIAL SCIENCE ONE, @ssrc_org, Engadget, The Verge, The Hill, CNET, Poynter, Adweek and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

David Uberti / VICE News:

Fox News dominates Facebook with 80% more engagement than CNN through a mix of traditional news and viral content, despite having 17M followers vs CNN's 31M — By the time Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference landed, the battle to spin it had already begun, with politicians …

Discussion: @jason_koebler, @viacristiano, @caseynewton and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Roger Parloff / Yahoo Finance:

Profile of Chris Cox, who, despite being chief product officer for years, never drew the attention for Facebook's scandals that Zuckerberg and Sandberg did — In late 2003, during his senior year at Stanford, Chris Cox, the future Chief Product Officer at Facebook (

Discussion: @alexeheath, @hkanji, @mathewi, @hardcorevalue, @yahoofinance, @zooko, @mikeisaac, Business Insider and Beyond Search

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

Amazon doorbell company Ring searches for an editor to deliver breaking crime alerts; local TV has already led Americans to overestimate crime rates — When news organizations think about competition from tech companies, it's usually in terms of the audience's attention and advertisers' dollars.

Discussion: @jbenton, @byrosenberg, @byrosenberg, Business Insider, @stephmbuck, @samanthaculp, @vectorpoem, @andrewkragie, @michaelbarthel and The Loop, more at Techmeme »

Eben Novy-Williams / Bloomberg:

FanDuel to be the first sports betting operator in the US to offer live-sports broadcasts alongside betting odds on its website and mobile app — - Website, app to provide live soccer, tennis from Sportradar — Operator bets games alongside odds will spur more gambling

Discussion: @thefixisintuohy

Ed O'Keefe / Shorenstein Center:

Legacy media and native streamers should focus on live news because now, as before, it will help attract and retain subscribers though it can be controversial — Searching for a way for streaming to save the news (and for the the news to save streaming) — Additional Research & Interviews: Andrew J. Zucker

Discussion: @aobaoill

Amanda Meade / The Guardian:

Nine Entertainment sells its Australian Community Media & Printing business, which includes 160+ former Fairfax regional papers, to ex-Fairfax exec for AU$115M — Former Domain boss Antony Catalano and Thorney Investment Group reach deal for Canberra Times, Newcastle Herald and others to change hands

Discussion: @lukehgomes, @grogsgamut, The West Australian, Australian Financial Review, ABC and Reuters