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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
One year after launch, Slate Plus has 9,000+ subscribers, generating around $500K a year — One year in, Slate draws 9,000 paying subscribers — For Slate, getting readers to pay for content was going back to the future. Back in 1998, it was one of the first sites to try a paywall, which quickly failed.
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Julia Turner / Slate:
Slate launches metered paywall for non-US readers, five free stories a month, cites inability to monetize international readership through domestic ads revenue — Hello, International Reader — We're launching a paywall for users abroad. Here's how it will work.
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FishbowlNY
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her — A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …
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Politico, FishbowlNY, Hot Air, @redsteeze, @liz_cheney, @dylanbyers and @glennthrush
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Sony Music CEO confirms launch of Apple's music streaming service tomorrow — Sony Music CEO Doug Morris said in an interview on stage today that Apple will announce its new music streaming service tomorrow at its World Wide Developers Conference. While observers have long-expected …
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
In extensive profile, Chris Hughes discusses his fall from grace after buying The New Republic — The Complex Power Coupledom of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and political activist Sean Eldridge were once the ultimate team, but Hughes's controversial purchase …
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@pmarca, @justinelliott, @rilaws, @lydiadepillis and The Wrap
Alan Rusbridger / Columbia Journalism Review:
Life after Snowden: Journalists' new moral responsibility — Editor's note: This is a chapter in Journalism After Snowden: The Future of Free Press in the Surveillance State, a forthcoming book from Columbia University Press. … Journalism after Snowden?
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@abettervision and The Intercept
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Alan Rusbridger on hacking, Snowden, Wikileaks and losing £300m to make The Guardian financially secure
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bookforum.com, @heathermallick and @pressgazette
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Both the New York Times and Washington Post will soon make web-traffic data available to reporters, and that's a good thing — Should Journalists Know How Many People Read Their Stories? — Soon, reporters at two of the country's leading newspapers will have access to the most basic type …
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@joelcifer, @alex, @matthewkeyslive and Washingtonian
Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch:
Bustle Revamps Its iOS App With A Personalized News Feed — Bustle, the millennial woman's news site with over 30 million monthly readers, today launched its revamped iOS App. While the site's old app was just a clone of the Bustle website, the update now allows readers to follow …
Josh Kalven / Medium:
Publishers create captioned videos for Facebook, where auto-play videos are muted by default — How Facebook Is Bringing Back The Silent Newsreel — In 2013, the developers and designers at Facebook made a significant change to their user experience. — Frustrated with the level …
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
Publishers haven't shared any Instant Articles on Facebook since the initial launch — Facebook's experiment to publish news articles has gotten awfully quiet — three weeks after everyone was freaking out about it — On May 12, Facebook launched its much discussed publishing product designed …
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VICE News:
Trial of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian resumes in Iran — Secret Spy Trial of US Journalist Restarts in Iran — The espionage trial of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian in Tehran restarted on Monday, Iran's official IRNA news agency has reported.
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Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Associated Press, tasnimnews.com and Associated Press
Jason Leopold / VICE News:
Exclusive: Inside Washington's Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden — A bipartisan group of Washington lawmakers solicited details from Pentagon officials that they could use to “damage” former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's “credibility in the press and the court of public opinion.”
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The Intercept, The Verge, Techdirt and bookforum.com
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