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1:25 AM ET, June 11, 2019

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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  —  New York (CNN Business)When House members convene on Tuesday for the first of several hearings about the power of Big Tech …
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
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 …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO cancels Vice News Tonight; Vice news chief and architect of that show, Josh Tyrangiel, to depart, as Vice hires Jesse Angelo to oversee news, TV, digital  —  Former New York Post publisher Jesse Angelo is joining Vice to oversee the news, digital and television divisions.
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  —  New York (CNN Business)A month and a half after The New York Times errantly published an anti-Semitic cartoon in its international edition …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Viacom's BET Networks is preparing to launch a streaming-video service with Tyler Perry this fall called BET+, directed at African-American audiences  —  New service, BET+, to include original movies, TV shows alongside content from other Viacom channels
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 …
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 …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Profile of Bustle founder Bryan Goldberg, who says he wants the new Gawker, launching this fall, to publish deeply reported long-form journalism  —  One day in 2013, Rachel Sklar, the feminist writer and activist, saw something online that set her off.  A 30-year-old media entrepreneur named …
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 …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Watergate-era presidential accountability in the age of Trump is hamstrung by huge fragmentation within the media and increasing right-wing propaganda  —  The question from an audience member made the three network chiefs bristle:  —  Why aren't the news media holding the White House accountable …
 
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Iran revoked press credential of Tehran-based NYT correspondent Thomas Erdbrink in Feb; photographer Newsha Tavakolian, his wife, was also stopped from working
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Facebook removes far-right conspiracy outlet Natural News, which had nearly 3M followers and promoted vaccine disinformation
Marc Bennetts / The Guardian:
Following the detention of Russian journalist Ivan Golunov, three major Russian papers publish nearly identical front pages expressing solidarity
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Source: Channel 4's relocation from London to Leeds, involving moving 300 staff, is expected to cost £50M and result in 80% of some departments leaving
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The New York Times is looking to expand The Daily's international audience, currently 20% of its listeners, with a weeklong series of European politics
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Mark Jacob / Nieman Lab:
Study: the total average daily hours spent by desktop visitors to sites across all forms of digital media grew from 2.7 hours in 2008 to 5.9 in 2017
Sarah Repucci / Freedom House:
In some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist leaders have overseen concerted attempts to throttle the independence of the media sector
Murtaza Hussain / The Intercept:
Heshmat Alavi, who published anti-Iran articles in Forbes, The Hill, and others, may be a persona created by an Iranian opposition group to shape US discourse
Joe Otterson / Variety:
Quibi to launch on April 6 2020 with a $7.99/mo ad free tier and a $4.99/mo tier with pre-roll ads, will pay costs plus 20% for up to $6M/hour to show creators
 

 
From Techmeme:

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals

 
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