Carpenter Media told a Sound Publishing union that it plans to lay off 62 people, including over half the unionized newsroom at The Daily Herald of Everett, WA (Brier Dudley/The Seattle Times)

Mediagazer: Carpenter Media told a Sound Publishing union that it plans to lay off 62 people, including over half the unionized newsroom at The Daily Herald of Everett, WA (Brier Dudley/The Seattle Times)

Top News:

Reuters:

The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act— The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had referred a complaint against the social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance …
Discussion: @linakhanftc, MediaPost, Variety, TechCrunch, LAW.com, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, Barron's Online, Financial Times, The Record, Bloomberg Law, CNBC, Semafor, Politico, Sherwood News, @swiftstories, @linakhanftc, @kevincolliernbc@threads.net, Gizmodo, The Hollywood Reporter, The Information, Federal Trade Commission, Digital Music News, Bloomberg and Reuters, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Lina Khan /
@linakhanftc: 1. Today @FTC referred its case against TikTok to the Civil Division at @TheJusticeDept. Our investigation found reason to believe that TikTok is violating or about to violate the FTC Act and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). https://www.ftc.gov/...

Todd Spangler /
Variety: FTC Refers TikTok Child Privacy Complaint to Justice Department

Maria Dinzeo /
LAW.com: FTC Suspects TikTok of Violating Children's Privacy Again, Refers Matter to DOJ

Karissa Bell /
Engadget: The FTC has referred its child privacy case against TikTok to the Justice Department

Lauren Feiner /
The Verge: TikTok might soon face another legal headache.

Haleluya Hadero /
Yahoo Finance: Federal Trade Commission refers complaint about TikTok's adherence to child privacy law to the DOJ

Eric J. Savitz /
Barron's Online: FTC Sends TikTok Complaint to Justice Department Over Child Safety Issues

Hannah Murphy /
Financial Times: TikTok complaint referred to US justice department

Suzanne Smalley /
The Record: FTC files complaint against TikTok for alleged data privacy practices

Emily Birnbaum /
Bloomberg Law: TikTok Child Privacy Case Referred to Justice Department

Jennifer Elias /
CNBC: FTC refers TikTok complaint to Justice Department

Diego Mendoza /
Semafor: FTC refers TikTok complaint to Justice Department

Matt Phillips /
Sherwood News: FTC says TikTok is “violating or are about to violate” child privacy laws

Mike Swift /
@swiftstories: Some huge @FTC news as the enforcer says @tiktok_us has joined @Meta on claims that it violated an existing #privacy consent order. As @facebook $5 billion settlement in 2020 showed, that can be very costly indeed for a big platform. #socialmedia #childprivacy

Lina Khan /
@linakhanftc: 2. @FTC will continue to use all its tools to enforce the law without fear or favor and protect the American public from corporate lawbreaking. We look forward to our continued partnership with @TheJusticeDept as we advance these shared goals.

Kevin Collier /
@kevincolliernbc@threads.net: Unusual and intriguing: FTC recommends charges against Tiktok and Bytedance for violating privacy of US children under 13. Few specifics but “The investigation uncovered reason to believe named defendants are violating or are about to violate the law.” https://www.ftc.gov/...

Oscar Gonzalez /
Gizmodo: TikTok Is in Some Minority Report-Style Legal Trouble

Winston Cho /
The Hollywood Reporter: TikTok Threatened With New Lawsuit As National Ban Fight Intensifies

Dylan Smith /
Digital Music News: TikTok v. USA Oral Arguments Set for September 16th — A Little Over Four Months Before the Forced-Sale Deadline

The Seattle Times:

Carpenter Media told a Sound Publishing union that it plans to lay off 62 people, including over half the unionized newsroom at The Daily Herald of Everett, WA— The other shoe has fallen after Carpenter Media Group's huge push into the Northwest. — Carpenter, a Southern newspaper chain …

Discussion:
New York Times and Washington Post

@brianstelter:

Email to staff: Jeff Bezos names and copies Will Lewis and says WaPo “needs to evolve” and has his “commitment on maintaining quality, ethics, and standards”— New: Jeff Bezos writes to newsroom leaders and says “the journalistic standards and ethics at The Post will not change.” [image]

Discussion:
The Hill, Fox News, The Guardian, New Republic, @karaswisher, Politico, Axios, CNN, @karaswisher@threads.net, The Daily Beast, @alexbruell, @sokane1@threads.net, @johnrobinson, @karaswisher@threads.net, @farhip, @hadas_gold, @karaswisher@threads.net, @johnmcquaid@threads.net, Mediaite, @kbode@threads.net and The Wrap

Discussion:

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Bezos backs new Washington Post editor in wake of staff backlash Fox News: Jeff Bezos tells upset Washington Post staffers that standards won't change under embattled publisher

Edward Helmore /
The Guardian: Jeff Bezos stresses commitment to ‘quality, ethics and standards’ in Washington Post memo

Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher: Next big shoe to drop 👞 💧: Major talent exodus of the folks they don't want to leave. And, let me be clear, I am not speculating here. [image]

Isabella Ramírez /
Politico: Jeff Bezos weighs in on Washington Post leadership saga

Sara Fischer /
Axios: Washington Post turmoil reels in familiar faces

Oliver Darcy /
CNN: Jeff Bezos moves to calm concerns at The Washington Post as new publisher faces mounting ethics questions

Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher@threads.net: One note on the Bezos note: The journalistic standards and ethics at the Post HAVE changed and, IMHO, in the wrong direction. Others can disagree and I get it, since the media biz is definitely tougher. I was a young reporter under folks like Ben Bradlee and the Grahams, so my standards might be too high for the current low bar age we find ourselves in.

Corbin Bolies /
The Daily Beast: Yachting Jeff Bezos Throws WaPo CEO Will Lewis a Lifeline (For Now)

Alexandra Bruell /
@alexbruell: Also have learned that Bezos continues to support Lewis in his role as CEO amid a series of controversies

Sean O'Kane /
@sokane1@threads.net: prompt: write an all-staff email to the newsroom assuring them that i care without mentioning anything specific of value. don't mention that i'm currently vacationing in greece on my $500 million yacht.

John Robinson /
@johnrobinson: @brianstelter This is...insufficient. Doesn't address the elephant in the room: the new chief executive and incoming editor.

Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher@threads.net: The one time I hate that I was correct about what Bezos might do: Wait the newsroom out while reassuring them what is happening is not happening and that their instincts are off.

Paul Farhi /
@farhip: Jeff Bezos finally breaks his silence re: turmoil at the @washingtonpost. This memo to leadership can be read, at best, as non-commital—check back later. But I'd say it's mostly being read as a validation of the status quo by a very restive newsroom. [image]

Hadas Gold /
@hadas_gold: I do not think Bezos' email will do much to quell the concerns I've heard from Post staffers....

Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher@threads.net: Maybe there is another shoe to drop especially if there is more problematic reporting on Bezos picks — dump the rat boy hire for optics, for example — so we will see. Amazon always was a company that always and forever modulated with more data and I don't think that will be different here.

John McQuaid /
@johnmcquaid@threads.net: Good that Bezos is backing the Washington Post's high standards. But this is a tortured workaround. Ethically-compromised publisher lacks the credibility to assure the newsroom he will not lower standards, so it falls to the owner, who cc's the publisher

Zachary Leeman /
Mediaite: Jeff Bezos Emails Washington Post Staff, Signals Support For CEO Amid Ethics Scandal

Karl Bode /
@kbode@threads.net: jeff bezos says hiring a right wing UK tabloid exec with ties to rupert murdoch and a history of criminal activity to run the washington post will in no way harm its integrity so that's all settled then and nobody has to worry

The Keyword:

Google launches News Showcase in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; several publishers added a feature where Google pays for reader access to paywalled content— News and Publishing Partner Manager, Central and Eastern Europe — For more than two decades, Google has partnered with journalists …

Discussion:
Neowin

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Aditya Tiwari /
Neowin: Google's curated news panels are now available in more countries

Adweek:

Subscription platform Zuora is acquiring AI company Sub(x) to use AI to enhance paywall offerings for the news industry; Sub(x)'s 10 employees will join Zuora— EXCLUSIVE: With Sub(x), Zuora moves beyond propensity scoring to reinforcement learning — Subscription technology platform Zuora …

Discussion:
Chris Scott on LinkedIn, @markstenberg3 and Zuora

Discussion:

Chris Scott /
Chris Scott on LinkedIn: The Sub(x) acquisition is so important because it adds #ReinforcementLearning to Zephr. These days, publisher can't rely on legacy technologies like propensity scores: …

Mark Stenberg /
@markstenberg3: New: The subscription platform Zuora has acquired Sub(x), an AI firm whose technology aims to “eliminate A/B testing” in paywall strategy. Zuora, whose clients include The NYT and The FT, will use Sub(x) to improve retention and reduce churn. For @ADWEEK:https://www.adweek.com/ ...

Wired:

ISIS created two YouTube channels falsely branded as CNN and Al Jazeera channels in March; their videos stayed on YouTube for a month and a half before removal— One video focused on giving ISIS credit for a terror attack that Russian disinformation blamed on Ukraine.

Discussion:
@paddydugganj, @SteveThompson@mastodon.social and @daithaigilbert

Discussion:

Paddy Duggan /
@paddydugganj: “The campaign is just the latest sign of the Islamic State's growing sophistication in circumventing content moderation efforts.”

Steve Thompson /
@SteveThompson@mastodon.social: They hardly need to create fake Al Jazeera broadcasts...but “fake news to debunk fake news”... 🤨 — “ISIS Created Fake CNN and Al Jazeera Broadcasts” — https://www.wired.com/... “One video focused on giving ISIS credit for a terror attack that Russian disinformation blamed on Ukraine. …

David Gilbert /
@daithaigilbert: A rare example of a disinformation nesting doll: ISIS created a fake CNN video in order to debunk Russian disinformation blaming Ukraine for a deadly attack in Moscow in March. “It was essentially fake news to debunk fake news,” @MoustafaAyad says https://www.wired.com/...

Variety:

Netflix plans to open two permanent in-person experience venues, in Dallas and near Philadelphia, in 2025, a continuation of its previous pop-ups— They're not exactly theme parks, but the new Netflix Houses — to open next year in King of Prussia, Pa., and Dallas — will feature a wide array …

Discussion:
Netflix Tudum, CNN, Engadget, Brian Millman on LinkedIn, The Verge, Peter Csathy on LinkedIn, @0xchalie, The Hollywood Reporter, BGR, Quartz, The Wrap, Media Play News and Deadline

Discussion:

Henry Goldblatt /
Netflix Tudum: Netflix House Will Let You Experience Your Favorite Shows, Movies in Real Life

Danny Gallagher /
Engadget: Netflix House will open two locations in Texas and Pennsylvania in 2025

Brian Millman /
Brian Millman on LinkedIn: Today was a big day for our friends at Netflix. The first two Netflix House locations have been announced: Dallas and King of Prussia. …

Andrew Liszewski /
The Verge: Netflix House will fill the voids left by dead department stores

Peter Csathy /
Peter Csathy on LinkedIn: Okay, THIS is a “wow” move! And doing it former department store locations? Brilliant! For years, I've written that Netflix's brand …

Andy Meek /
BGR: People love Netflix's live pop-up experiences so much, they'll soon be permanent in two cities

Bruce Gil /
Quartz: Netflix will open in-person ‘experiences’ at malls — but it won't use movie theaters

Adam Chitwood /
The Wrap: Netflix to Make Live Experiences Permanent With Netflix House Entertainment Venues in Dallas and King of Prussia

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Netflix Opening Branded ‘Netflix House’ Retail Centers in Dallas and Pennsylvania

Variety:

Venu Sports, the Fox/WBD/Disney streaming venture, announces more hires, including Chief Business Officer Tim Connolly, who had led Apple TV+ subscriber growth— Key senior hires include chief business officer Tim Connolly, CTO Skarpi Hedinsson and CMO Brian Borkowski

Discussion:
Awful Announcing, The Desk, Radio & Television …, Pete Distad on LinkedIn, The Wrap, Next TV, Deadline and Barrett Media

Discussion:

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Venu Sports drafts execs from Paramount, FanDuel, SiriusXM to fill leadership roster

Pete Distad /
Pete Distad on LinkedIn: Feel super lucky to be working with such a talented group of people to get this thing off of the ground. Rockstar team. Let's go! …

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: Venu Sports Adds Tim Connolly, Skarpi Hedinsson to Sports Streaming Venture Leadership Team

Daniel Frankel /
Next TV: Venu Sports Announces Management Team Under CEO Pete Distad

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Venu Sports Streaming Venture Fills Out Executive Roster With Appointments Across Departments

Axios:

Forbes' lawyer demands that Perplexity AI remove articles sourced from Forbes, seeks assurances that Perplexity AI won't infringe on Forbes copyrights, and more— - The chatbot tried to give credibility to the Forbes story it presented by citing other “sourced” reports that were actually …

Discussion:
@johnvoelcker

Discussion:

Reuters Institute:

RISJ's 2024 Digital News Report with a survey of 90K+: six platforms, like TikTok, reach 10%+ of respondents for news use, compared to just two a decade ago— This year's report comes at a time when around half the world's population have been going to the polls in national and regional elections …

Discussion:

Rutger Verhoeven /
Rutger Verhoeven on LinkedIn: A great read! First and foremost we're proud of the mentioning of @smartocto in the latest https://lnkd.in/... regarding the User Needs Model 2.0 …

Andrew Stroehlein /
@andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social: News use across online platforms fragmenting: 6 networks “now reaching at least 10% of our respondents, compared with just 2 a decade ago”. — YouTube used for news by 31% each week, — WhatsApp 21%, — TikTok 13%, — Twitter 10%. — https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...

Allan Rose Hill /
Boing Boing: 40% of people don't care about the news, survey says

Esther Kezia Thorpe /
Media Voices: 5 things we learned about the state of podcasts from the Digital News Report 2024

Diya Banerjee /
Diya Banerjee on LinkedIn: The Digital News Report of 2024 is out, and let's dive in. — With vertical video and short-form #content topping the chart in formats, people prefer viewing byte-size news multimedia content. …

Katherine Pennacchio /
LatAm Journalism Review: Using Facebook for the news in decline and concerns grow over AI's influence on misinformation: Reuters Institute report

Jacob Granger /
Jacob Granger on LinkedIn: Happy Digital News Report day! The study I look forward to most every year. Huge congratulations to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism team for another incredible body of work …

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Excellent, as ever, @risj_oxford news report. Interest in news down (UK halved since '15), avoidance up (now 39%). Facebook down 4%. TikTok & news up, beating Twitter (should it really be banned in an election?) Subscription flat & destination strategies borked (should publishers market more?) …

Clara Aberneithie /
Press Gazette: Trust in news up slightly in UK but remains lower than global average

Teemu Henriksson /
WAN-IFRA: Digital News Report 2024: Business challenges mount as subscription growth slows

RELATED:

Press Gazette:
A look at news influencers in the US, the UK, and France: a majority are mainstream journalists in the UK, much higher YouTube use for news in the US, and more

Discussion:
Reuters Institute

Financial Times:

French ad agency Havas plans to invest €400M in AI and data-led initiatives in the next four years, and prepares for a four-way breakup of parent Vivendi— French company launches AI strategy as it prepares to split from parent group Vivendi — Havas will invest €400mn …

Discussion:
The Media Leader, PRWeek, @havas, @davidclinchnews, Adweek, Ad Age, MediaPost and Havas

Discussion:

Gideon Spanier /
PRWeek: Havas pushes integration with new ‘Converged’ strategy and invests €400m in AI and tech @havas: Today marks a significant milestone for Havas as we proudly unveil our new global strategic plan: #Converged. After a decade of our #Together strategy, this new chapter represents a bold step forward for our organization. https://www.havas.com/... [image]

David Clinch /
@davidclinchnews: AI + advertising may become a scattered nightmare, but has the potential to create a new dynamic with better Ads being seen by real people in a validated context and based on actual attention time to minimize waste. I hope it is the latter.

Rebecca Stewart /
Adweek: Havas Bets $400m on AI, Readies Vivendi Spin-Off Plans

Joe Mandese /
MediaPost: Havas Unveils ‘Converged,’ New Four-Year Strategic Plan

Digiday:

Daily Mail plans to launch a dozen long-form shows on YouTube by the end of 2024, focusing on popular verticals including entertainment, sports, and the royals— In a bid to earn more ad revenue, Daily Mail is making a big push into long-form video with plans to debut a dozen shows on YouTube by the end of this year.

Discussion:
The Media Leader, MediaPost, StreamTV Insider and Press Gazette

Discussion:

Jack Benjamin /
The Media Leader: Daily Mail unveils new global video strategy

Ray Schultz /
MediaPost: ‘Daily Mail’ Pursues New Global Video Strategy

Adrian Pennington /
StreamTV Insider: Daily Mail unveils expanded video strategy

Austin American-Statesman:

Gannett's Austin American-Statesman names Courtney Sebesta executive editor; she began her career at the Statesman 22 years ago as an editorial assistant— Courtney Sebesta, a homegrown journalist who has risen from an entry-level newsroom position to top management at the Austin American-Statesman …

Discussion:
Courtney Sebesta on LinkedIn and Austin Business Journal

Discussion:

Courtney Sebesta /