Mediagazer: As streaming offerings get more expensive and convoluted, people are setting up their own platforms via Plex servers to share media, including pirated content (Bijan Stephen/The Verge)

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FTC announces a $5B fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations as part of a settlement that requires federal oversight of its business practices — The settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook ends a 16-month probe that began after revelations of the tech giant's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica

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AT&T Q2: 778K net loss in DirecTV, U-verse customers; 168K net DirecTV Now subscriber loss; WarnerMedia revenue up 5.5% YoY to $8.35B, operating income up 10.3% — WarnerMedia was AT&T's fastest-growing division in the second quarter of 2019. But the telco showed ongoing signs of trouble …

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HBO Max streaming service set to launch next spring will eventually include live sports and news programming, says AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson — AT&T chief Randall Stephenson told investors Wednesday that the HBO Max streaming service set to launch next spring will eventually include live sports and news programming.

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Eli Blumenthal / CNET:
AT&T plans yet another new video streaming service, AT&T TV, which it will pilot in select markets this summer

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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:

Interviews, including with the dev who led the team behind the retweet button, discuss the power of retweets to drive extreme content and spread misinformation — Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter's retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day.

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Clare Duffy / CNN:

Snap adds 13M DAUs in Q2, attributes growth to exclusive Discover content with 35% YoY increase in daily Discover users and total daily time spent on it up 60% — New York (CNN Business)Snapchat has the makings of a comeback story. — Snapchat (SNAP) added 13 million daily users …

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Om Malik:

Media companies keep playing a blame game, pointing to tech companies for their failures, but sales execs focused on short-term thinking should take the blame — Earlier this week, the New York Post reported that the cover of the July 29th issue of Time magazine, which celebrates …

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The Washington Post establishes a computational political journalism R&D lab to augment its campaign 2020 coverage — The Washington Post's newly launched elections engineering team will establish a computational political journalism R&D lab in the newsroom this fall.

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Netflix launches a $2.80 per month mobile-only subscription plan in India, restricted to one mobile device at 480p standard definition — Netflix has a new plan to win users in India: make its service incredibly cheap. The streaming giant today introduced a lower-priced mobile tier in the country that costs Rs 199 ($2.8) per month.

Discussion: Variety, Netflix Media Center, Gizmodo, Fast Company and XDA Developers, more at Techmeme »

Barry Levine / Marketing Dive:

Staples launches a quarterly print and digital magazine, Staples Worklife, as part of a brand refresh and lifestyle marketing push — - Staples launched a quarterly magazine for sparking conversation and provide resources for professionals who see their work “as more than just a job,” according to a press release.

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @nwquah, Dealerscope, @staples, Chain Store Age and MediaPost

Kyle Bessey / Journalism.co.uk:

Journalists' unique use of social media exacerbates all its negative psychological effects, which can lead to mental health problems — Social presence is no longer a hobby, it is a journalism skill. So if cancelling all your accounts is not an option, what else can you do to stay safe and sane online?

Kali Hays / WWD:

Ad spend in print magazines in US fell 18% YoY in 2018, but spend in magazines' digital verticals rose 3.3%; magazine advertisers spent $13.64B total, down 12% — A few editors had success last year online and on YouTube, but digital ad dollars are very, very slow to appear.

Discussion: @ricmac and @elizabethangell

Nancy Cook / Politico:

Unlike her predecessors, Trump's new Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham has remained mostly silent to the public, playing a behind-the-scenes role — In one of the most fiery months of the Trump presidency, the new press secretary has had very little to say.

Discussion: @ericboehlert, @politico, @brianstelter, @dandrezner and @politico

Sasha Koren / Times Open:

NYT R&D debuts The News Provenance Project to explore product design and user-facing tools to make content origins clearer to audiences and fight misinformation — The Times's Research & Development team is exploring ways to make the origins of journalistic content clearer to news audiences.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @sashak, The Next Web, @dangillmor, CoinDesk and Talking Biz News

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Bijan Stephen / The Verge:
As streaming offerings get more expensive and convoluted, people are setting up their own platforms via Plex servers to share media, including pirated content

more at Techmeme »

Janko Rottgers / Variety:
Amazon launches a dedicated Prime Video VR app, available for Oculus Go, Quest, and Samsung Gear VR headsets in the US and UK

Discussion: VentureBeat and Oculus, more at Techmeme »

Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:
Streaming service iflix is closing down its Middle East operations amid frustration from local distributors “to focus on its core markets in Southeast Asia”

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Slate's daily advice columns are driving traffic to the site, with unique visitors across the category up 85% YoY, as their large archives foster binge-reading

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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
The success of Barr's press conferences after the Mueller report shows the power of TV over text; Mueller's hearing could reset the narrative in the same medium

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, @frankluntz, New York Times, Mediaite and emptywheel

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix shed over $24B in value in six days after it reported losing US subscribers for the first time last quarter; market cap at end of Tuesday was $134.5B

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, @latimes and @alexaportia

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Andrew Griffith, who is COO and CFO of European pay-TV giant Sky, is leaving to serve as new UK PM Boris Johnson's senior business adviser, starting Wednesday

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
In a court document, lawyers for Cesar Sayoc, who pleaded guilty to mailing explosives to 13 people, say Fox & Friends and Hannity helped radicalize Sayoc

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Coverage of civilian casualties in the war on ISIS has been largely absent due to low editorial priority and a perceived lack of public interest

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Jodi Rudoren, a veteran editor and reporter at The New York Times, has been named editor in chief of The Forward, a 122-year-old Jewish publication

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Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:
Profile of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who has donated $100M+ to charities and who champions “vigorous, trustworthy journalism” and women in tech

Discussion: @craignewmark, @georgiadreid1, @richardjnieva, @blkbaer, @techledes, @jdolcourt and @jasonhiner

Max Willens / Digiday:
Bustle Digital Group acquires Inverse, a science- and geek culture-focused site, which was founded by Bleacher Report cofounder Dave Nemetz and had raised $6M

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
A look at the work of Puerto Rican news nonprofit CPI, whose publication of texts sent by the governor has partly sparked protests demanding his resignation

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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent”

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023

Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg:
Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam

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