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Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?:
Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet — Around the world, news industry trade associations are corruptly cashing in their political capital — …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
At US House hearings on Tuesday, newspaper lobbyists will pitch the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act to let pubs jointly negotiate with big tech
At US House hearings on Tuesday, newspaper lobbyists will pitch the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act to let pubs jointly negotiate with big tech
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The Week, @jbenton and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
News Media Alliance study, to be given to US House ahead of hearings, claims Google made $4.7B from the work of news publishers in 2018 via search, Google News
News Media Alliance study, to be given to US House ahead of hearings, claims Google made $4.7B from the work of news publishers in 2018 via search, Google News
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
NYT says it will stop publishing political cartoons in its international edition starting July 1, has been considering its decision for more than a year — A month and a half after The New York Times errantly published an anti-Semitic cartoon in its international edition …
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Facebook has quietly made changes to limit Graph Search over the weekend, following privacy scandals, says it will work with researchers affected by the changes — Facebook's Graph Search allowed anyone to search a wealth of public data on Facebook in very specific ways …
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BuzzFeed News, @josephfcox, TechCrunch, @wongmjane, @cward1e and @eliothiggins, more at Techmeme »
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
In the US, NPR is the only major media outlet with a full-time public editor; CJR announces appointment of four public editors for NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, and CNN — Last week at Columbia, CJR hosted more than three dozen public editors from around the world, gathered together for their annual meeting.
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@gabrielsnyder, @mantzarlis, @digiphile, @emilyctamkin and @robinhenig
Matthew Gault / VICE:
InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie $15,000 in a copyright settlement after using the cartoon on merch — Pepe the Frog will no longer face Alex Jones in court. — Jones and his lawyers have settled with Pepe creator Matt Furie. Furie sued Jones for copyright infringement …
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The Daily Beast, New York Times, Engadget, Gizmodo, @elizabcking, UPROXX, @egavactip, The Stranger, The Hill, The Daily Dot, Hollywood Reporter and Alex Jones' Infowars
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Digiday Media adds a third brand, Modern Retail, after the launch of Glossy in 2016; subscription revenue for the company is projected to reach $2M+ in 2019 — Digiday Media, the eleven-year old digital media trade publication, is adding a third brand called “Modern Retail,” …
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@hilarymilnes and @bmorrissey
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Artists are gaming Billboard charts by including free downloads of albums with concert tickets and merch; Billboard plans to tighten bundling rules this year — About half the 39 titles that topped the charts last year were sold as part of ticket or merchandise “bundles.”
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The Independent, @nytimes, Page Six, PAPER, Music Business Worldwide and VICE
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologizes to the LGBTQ community, says that demonetizing but leaving Steven Crowder's channel on the platform was the right decision — ‘Context really, really matters’ — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is apologizing to the LGBTQ community in the wake …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Seattle-based Glow launches, in beta, its mobile-first podcast monetization platform which enables podcasters to turn listeners into subscribers — It's a common problem for podcasters: you've got a passionate, loyal audience, but at a time when it seems everyone is producing an audio show …
Casey Sullivan / Business Insider:
Interview with veteran journalist Ken Auletta on his forthcoming book on Harvey Weinstein, the reporting process, his career regrets, and more — - Biographer Ken Auletta discussed his upcoming book on Harvey Weinstein in a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider.
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@casey_biglaw
Brian Resnick / Vox:
How private industry dominates and profits massively from academic publishing, and how librarians, academics, and pirates are trying to regain control — How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls. — The 27,500 scientists who work …
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@sineadherself, @joeycoleman, @cbsweeney, @julie_bernie, @voxdotcom, @b_resnick, @profsimonfisher, @dsquintana and @b_resnick
Washington Post:
Source: US has issued a formal extradition request for Julian Assange, making further US charges unlikely per the terms of the US-UK extradition treaty — The Justice Department has delivered to officials in the United Kingdom a formal extradition request for Julian Assange …
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