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Brian Stelter / CNN:
After complaining about CNN, Trump suggests customers boycott the network's corporate parent, AT&T; source says AT&T executives expected such attacks eventually — California (CNN Business)President Trump's years-long effort to punish CNN for its news coverage took a new …
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New York Times:
Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children — Christiane C. didn't think anything of it when her 10-year-old daughter and a friend uploaded a video of themselves playing in a backyard pool.
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Pricing WarnerMedia's streaming service is complicated by HBO's $15/month price: it's double Disney's, but lowering it threatens revenue from cable partners — With its acquisition of Time Warner last year, AT&T was on its way toward creating a streaming service that will one day be the exclusive online home …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Many of the top shows and movies on Netflix, produced by upcoming streaming competitors like AT&T and Disney, have licensing rights locked in for years to come — Streaming service has many programs locked up for years to come — Hollywood studios say they're breaking up with Netflix.
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/Film, @lucas_shaw, Observer, @entstrategyguy, @basche42, IndieWire, @stevekovach, @lucas_shaw, Engadget, @conroyforreal and BGR
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Twitter acquires Fabula AI, which uses machine learning to help detect the spread of misinformation online, to join Twitter's team of AI researchers — Twitter has acquired Fabula AI, a London-based startup that uses machine learning (ML) to help detect the spread of misinformation online.
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Twitter, TechCrunch, Adweek and The Independent, more at Techmeme »
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Report: US advertisers spent $479.1M on podcasts ads in 2018, up 53% from 2017, and are predicted to spend $678.7M this year — U.S. advertisers' spending on podcasts rose 53% in 2018 — Podcasters continue to find growing interest from marketers, but their growth remains constrained …
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RAIN News, IAB, @ewscrippsco, @hernanlopez, IAB and @profcarroll
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: studio partners will be able to license Vudu originals in international markets and put content on Vudu, non-exclusively, for free — Walmart might have scuttled its plans to build a subscription video streaming service catering to the “heartland,” but the company still has streaming video ambitions.
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Profile of HitRecord, a GitHub-like collaborative media platform cofounded by Joseph Gordon-Levitt that has paid out $3M+ to content contributors since 2010 — HitRecord is a production company transitioning into a tech platform. We caught up with cofounders Jared Geller and Joseph Gordon-Levitt …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ESPN to test an NBA game stream aimed just at teens, the latest in a number of alternate viewing experiences the network has been testing for several months — Senior TV Editor @https://twitter.com/bristei FOLLOW — When Katie Nolan hosts an ESPN telecast of Game 2 of the NBA Finals this Sunday …
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Cybercultural, @pkafka, @ben_espn, @trentonhassles, @bristei, @bristei, @katienolangifs, @bristei, @jeffmacke and Awful Announcing
Danya Henninger / Billy Penn:
As part of a major rebranding, Philadelphia Media Network drops Philly.com domain and now redirects its readers to Inquirer.com — On the eve of its 190th birthday, the region's largest newspaper is making a huge online change. — After more than two decades, the Philly.com era ends this weekend.
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@phillydesign, American Press Institute, @chanders, @ckrewson, @migold, @scenesallard, @joannemclaugh, @bydanielvictor, @dan_ua and @chanders
Nicolas Kristen / Global Editors Network:
Interview with Jeff Kofman, CEO of automated transcription service company Trint and an Emmy award-winning journalist, on how AI can empower newsrooms and more — The voice economy has found its way into newsrooms, changing the workflow of journalists and liberating time to focus on their reporting.
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Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Interview with CBS News president Susan Zirinsky on her start at CBS, how the position of women has evolved, and how fear makes her a better executive — Network's first female news president talks MeToo, Deep Throat and her time on the frontlines — Despite being on the frontlines …
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