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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The newspaper industry doesn't need a special antitrust exemption to help it compete with Google, Facebook; the papers are largely to blame for their downfall — The newspaper industry has crawled up Capitol Hill once again to beg for an antitrust exemption it thinks it needs in its fight …
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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 — …
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin:
[Thread] News Media Alliance study relies on an offhand comment Marissa Mayer made in 2008 to extrapolate how much money Google has made from news publishers
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Washington Post:
Sources: Zuckerberg contacted Pelosi to discuss viral misinformation, but she has not engaged, frustrated by how Facebook handled a manipulated video of her — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg contacted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in recent weeks to discuss …
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Rani Molla / Vox:
Mary Meeker releases her Internet Trends 2019 report, showing US ad spending up 22% in 2018, with issues ahead for targeted ads due to GDPR and privacy concerns — Here are all the slides, plus analysis. — It's the holiday season for data nerds: That is, Mary Meeker is delivering …
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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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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Mandy Jenkins, GM of the Compass Experiment, McClatchy's project to build three sustainable local news sites, funded by Google News Initiative — “A lot of this is taking advantage of what Google has to offer as a partner. They're tracking all of these interesting trends all the time …
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
US Congressman introduces bill seeking to make it easier for written news organizations to claim nonprofit status — A bill filed by U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., would make it easier for “written news organizations” to claim nonprofit status, “allowing them to focus on content instead …
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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 …
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Mollie Leavitt / The Idea:
Interview with Washington Post editors on their new travel vertical, By The Way, which is launching on June 18 for people who want to “feel like a local” — We spoke with Amanda Finnegan and Emilio Garcia-Ruiz from The Washington Post about By The Way, a new travel product the Post is launching on June 18.
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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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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
As China clamps down on free speech and blocks more US media outlets, Trump's routine attacks on those same outlets make a striking companion — The news out of China over the weekend was bleak: Two more major international media companies — the London-based Guardian and The Washington Post …
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Academics introduce Grover, an AI system that writes convincing fake news based on user inputs and can help researchers detect other AI-made disinformation — “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” — One of the biggest problems in media today is so-called “fake news,” …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group has acquired startup news app Zig, which offers an Instagram-style scrolling feed of photos that link to news sites — Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer were among the app's investors.
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