Mediagazer: Artists can now livestream directly on Amazon Music across all streaming tiers through a partnership with Twitch (Tatiana Cirisano/Billboard)

11:20 AM ET, September 1, 2020

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Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes — The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.

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Ad tech startup InfoSum, which lets companies match customer data in a privacy-compliant way, raises $15M and names Xandr's Brian Lesser CEO — InfoSum, a UK-based data platform that allows companies to match data in a privacy compliant-way, has raised $15 million and appointed Brian Lesser …

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Luke Winkie / Nieman Lab:

Profile of Study Hall, a gossipy media site for freelancers that started as a Patreon-funded newsletter and now has 4,500 subs paying between $1 and $11/month — Study Hall doesn't want to be Nieman Lab, nor does it have any interest in aping Mediaite, Digiday, or the Columbia Journalism Review.

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Marc Tracy / New York Times:

Black Kenosha News journalist quits the paper over a since-changed headline that highlighted a threat made by one of several speakers at a peaceful rally — Daniel Thompson, an editor at The Kenosha News, resigned over a headline that highlighted a speaker who made a threat during a peaceful protest.

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: AT&T's exploring a sale of Xandr, its digital advertising unit, after acquiring one of its biggest components, ad exchange AppNexus, in 2018 for ~$1.6B — The telecom giant had hoped to use its scale and AppNexus deal to build up an advertising business

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap, @lucas_shaw, @taralach, @pkafka, @lucas_shaw and Cord Cutters News

Gilad Edelman / Wired:

A leading antitrust scholar says Google's ad marketplace should be regulated as it both runs the market and competes as its biggest buyer and seller — A leading antitrust scholar says yes. Congress may be listening. — The days of suit-clad men shouting out orders on the bustling floors …

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Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard:

Artists can now livestream directly on Amazon Music across all streaming tiers through a partnership with Twitch — Plus: How music licensing fits in to the Twitch partnership and why livestreaming concerts could be the next step for streaming platforms. — As the concert livestreaming …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Variety, Music Business Worldwide and The Verge

Matthew Keys / The Desk:

Source: YouTube TV to add NFL Network to its base tier and allow subscribers to add on other sports channels, including NFL RedZone and Fox Soccer Plus — YouTube TV will add the NFL Network and a handful of other sports channels in September, according to a source.

Discussion: The Streamable

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Interview with Laura Helmuth, new EIC of the 175-year-old Scientific American, on pandemic coverage, how credibility of science became a political issue, more — While the nation's news cycle was focused last week on Hurricane Laura, the Republican National Convention and protests …

Discussion: @kerrymflynn and @rickedmonds

Jacqui Banaszynski / Nieman Storyboard:

A magazine writer and a documentary filmmaker discuss how their storytelling formats shaped their coverage of the same cold case hate murder from 1983 — On Oct. 9, 1983, the body of Timothy Wayne Coggins, a 23-year-old Black man, was found in the woods off a power line easement in Griffin, Georgia.

Julia Alexander / The Verge:

TikTok partners with Teespring to let creators sell merch directly from the app, a first for the platform, planning to roll out the integration soon — The exclusive partnership kicks off in September — TikTok creators will soon be able to sell merchandise they design and create directly to fans via the app itself.

Discussion: @blackamazon, USA Today, Tubefilter and Mashable, more at Techmeme »

Thomas Macaulay / The Next Web:

Stanford launches Cable TV News Analyzer, a free AI-powered online service for querying the screen time of public figures or specific topics on cable TV news — THE STANFORD CABLE TV NEWS ANALYZER USES COMPUTER VISION TO IDENTIFY PUBLIC FIGURES ON THE IDIOT BOX

Discussion: @jeremyscheel1, @janinezacharia, @brendannyhan, Brown Institute and Stanford News, more at Techmeme »

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Alan Charlish / Reuters:
Profile of Stsiapan Putsila, a 22-year-old vlogger from Belarus who runs Nexta Live, one of the country's main news sources with over 2M Telegram subscribers

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