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“The real-time concurrent views, displayed publicly on Hotstar’s website, peaked at 10.7 million, the highest any online streaming service has reported to date. 10.3 million is the official figure, Hotstar said in a later statement. (The Royal Wedding peaked at 1.29 million simultaneous viewers.)”

“The German digital media group, which owns Business Insider, Bild and Welt, has spent the last 18 months developing a GDPR consent management tool, which can also be adapted to address cookie-consent requirements under the pending ePrivacy Regulation once it is finalized, according to the publisher. Axel Springer’s first partner is one of its competitors in Germany: media group Hubert Burda Media.” —SW

“A little over a year ago, The Wing lured in millennial professional women with chic coworking spaces featuring onsite blowouts and empowerment-infused messaging. Now it’s announcing its first podcast, No Man’s Land, to be produced by Pineapple Street Media (whose founder Jenna Weiss-Berman is also a Wing member).” —SW

“Long Island-based Didit also plans to keep Gawker’s archives live. Other bids for Gawker are due July 9, and an auction will be held on July 12, according to the filing.” —SW

“There’s still a pervasive doom and gloom, and this makes sense. It’s logical when you’re talking about people who are impacted by climate change, they are usually adversely impacted. But nonetheless, some of the work that’s been done in social sciences over the years has found that when these stories just focus in on doom and gloom, they turn off those who are consuming them. Without being able to find their own place as a reader, viewer, or listener in those stories, people feel paralyzed and they don’t feel like they can engage and have an entry point into doing something about the problem.”

“Staying alive and surviving is the most important strategy in order not to risk yourselves and your organization,” Gülin Çavuş, a journalist at the Turkish fact-checking outlet Teyit, said. “It may sometimes be the best solution to postpone some of the projects and topics you desire to do, but you consider dangerous, to periods in which more democratic and freer press.”

“The USNPL lists 7,269 news sources in the U.S. Only 2,702 of those produce ‘knowledge panels’ in Google, with the likely reason for lack of a panel being lack of a well developed Wikipedia page. Even aside from the knowledge panel problem, the lack of decent pages for local news means that students will not always be able to find any objective information. What struck me though was that this is a solvable problem. And it’s one our students can help solve.”