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Twitter bans political ads globally, will allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs — - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at an Entrepreneurial Refugee Network event in the UK. Matt Crossick/PA Images via Getty Images
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18 — Hulu is implementing its second price increase in less than a year for its Hulu With Live TV product — with the base package of 60-plus live channels increasing 22%, to $54.99 per month.
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Marc Schneider / Billboard:
Big Machine Label Group and Taylor Swift's reps trade accusations about catalog ownership and money after Swift said label stopped her from singing older songs — “Taylor, the narrative you have created does not exist,” the label says in a new statement. — Taylor Swift and Big Machine Label Group …
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Raffaele Colella / The Keyword:
Google News debuts Beyond the Headlines tab, which surfaces in-depth content on key issues in English, with more languages and a mobile version coming in 2020 — Last year, we redesigned Google News with one goal in mind: to help people understand the world through quality, trustworthy and enjoyable news.
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Engadget, @carolynpfox and 9to5Google
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Criminal justice news site The Marshall Project turned 5 years old on Friday; it hopes to raise its annual budget to $10M in the next few years — “As a former journalist, I was mindful of the power of honest storytelling. As an idealist, I felt that if only Americans knew the truth, changes would soon follow."
Storybench:
Analysis of ~10K news articles from 28 outlets on 2020 Democratic candidates since March: media coverage continues to track cycles of scandals and viral news — It's a paradox of examining political coverage. Are news media just reporting what the political candidates are talking about?
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@spj_tweets, @revkin, @firstdraftnews, @joebanner13 and @jayrosen_nyu
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Interview with NYT CEO Mark Thompson on NYT's widening content, changes to its paywall, subscription price increases, subscriber goals by 2025, and more — The “failing” New York Times' news operation now employs more than 1,700 journalists, up nearly 50 percent from a decade ago.
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@kdoctor, @jbenton, @meslackman and A Media Operator
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media's properties promoted and Netflix app blocked — Verizon has an answer to Roku, but it's not talking much about it: The mobile carrier quietly released a new streaming device …
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@gerryfsmith, @karlbode and @jank0, more at Techmeme »
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Profile of FaZe Clan, an esports and gaming lifestyle media org with 34 content creators, 15 pro esports players, 11 players/entertainers, and over 214M viewers — They already make every moment into consumable content. What can it become? — This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series …
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@taylorlorenz, @angelmendozaazc, @medialitnow, @tayhatmaker, @joshpescatore, @annehelen, @sjeneris, @danbarker, @scottbix and Tubefilter
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Jimmy Wales' news site WikiTribune has relaunched as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and “news sharing” site where users can edit almost everything — Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat “clickbait” and misleading headlines.
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@tim, TechSpot, Fossbytes, ZDNet, @raju, @michellemanafy, Engadget and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
NYT posted $48M in “other” revenue, up 26% YoY, mostly attributed to The Weekly, which averages 1.2M viewers, plans to premiere two full-length docs in H1 2020 — The New York Times is making a move into movies. — The publisher aims to premiere at least two feature-length documentaries in the first half of 2020.
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