Mediagazer: An NBCU-owned podcast network will only create podcasts that can become TV shows, indicative of podcast ecosystem exploitation by an already powerful industry (Nicholas Quah/Nieman Lab)

6:35 PM ET, November 16, 2019

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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.

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

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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 …

Discussion: NPR, Big Machine Label Group, PAPER, @billboardbiz, BuzzFeed and Variety

Noah Yoo / Pitchfork:
Taylor Swift says her former label's CEO and Scooter Braun, who bought the label, won't let her sing early songs at an awards show or in a Netflix documentary

Mark Anderson / Sacramento Business Journal:

The Sacramento Bee announces the Tipping Point Lab, staffed by donor-supported reporters working on in-depth stories, launching in early 2020 for three years — The Sacramento Bee has developed a philanthropic nonprofit model to fund a team of reporters to work on special projects for the local newspaper and for multimedia.

Discussion: American Press Institute

Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:

An NBCU-owned podcast network will only create podcasts that can become TV shows, indicative of podcast ecosystem exploitation by an already powerful industry — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 234, dated November 12, 2019. — The podcast-entertainment industrial complex, revisited.

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 …

Discussion: @taylorlorenz, @angelmendozaazc, @tayhatmaker, @joshpescatore, @annehelen, @medialitnow, @sjeneris, @danbarker, @scottbix and Tubefilter, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: @kdoctor, @jbenton, @meslackman and A Media Operator

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.

Discussion: 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."

Discussion: @mvilla1859, @marshallproj, @bronxdefenders, @mauricechammah, @geraldinesealey, The Marshall Project, @susanchira, @nsbarsky, @johnarnoldfndtn and @jbenton

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?

Discussion: @spj_tweets, @revkin, @firstdraftnews, @joebanner13 and @jayrosen_nyu

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 …

Discussion: @gerryfsmith, @karlbode and @jank0, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: ZDNet, TechSpot, Fossbytes, @tim, @raju, @michellemanafy, Engadget and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

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