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The New York Times Passes One Million Digital Subscriber Milestone — The New York Times Company announced today that as of Thursday, July 30, it had passed the one million paid digital-only subscriber mark, less than four-and-a-half years after launching its pay model.
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Ad Age, Fortune, WWD, Wired, Agence France-Presse, VentureBeat, FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily and @aellick
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New York Times Q2: $16M net income, 33K new digital subscribers, digital advertising up 14% — New York Times Co. Reports $16 Million Profit — The New York Times Company reported net income of more than $16 million for the second quarter on slightly lower revenue, as digital growth …
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investors.nytco.com, CNNMoney and Wall Street Journal


Survey of communications school graduates: 17% say news has improved in last five years, biggest issue is the abundance of opinion and false information online — A new snapshot of the profession from 10,000 J-school grads — A massive survey of two generations of journalism and communications graduates …
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American Press Institute and @hermida


Washington Post partners with Genius for live annotations by readers and journalists of GOP presidential debate — Washington Post to let readers annotate live coverage of tonight's GOP debate — The newspaper is experimenting with annotation technology Genius for the first time during …
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Washington Post and @mathewi


Apple Music has 11M trial subscribers with 2M on family plan; App Store has record month in July with $1.7B in transactions — Apple Music hooks 11 million trial members, App Store has record July — One month after unveiling its new streaming music service, Apple has locked in 11 million trial members …
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Fortune, Mashable, ZDNet, 24/7 Wall St., App Advice, RAIN News, MacRumors, Business Insider, @simonkhalaf, NME, Yahoo Tech, Telegraph, CNBC, Quartz, VentureBeat, New York Times, Variety, Re/code, Business Insider, Engadget, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Verge, The Next Web, Guardian, hypebot, The Loop and MacStories


In the UK and US, some pro sports teams are limiting media access and communicating directly to fans — English Club Shuts Out Journalists With New Kind of Defense — SWINDON, England — A few months ago, a reporter for the local newspaper here went to a charity event in town.
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@marchintonffx, @alex_ogle, @nytsports, @ashbroadley and Guardian
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Blockfeed, a NYC-based news app, geotags others' articles to aggregate news, shows map of stories near user, and uses social media buzz to prioritize stories — Blockfeed App Surfaces Hyper Local News — The death knell has been sounded for local journalism at regular intervals during the digital era.
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Digiday, The New York Observer and The Drum


Two-thirds of UK's Netflix and Amazon users don't watch their original shows — More British online TV subscribers say they view films or US shows than exclusive programmes such as House of Cards or Orange is the New Black — Two-thirds of online TV subscribers in the UK …


The Huffington Post Names Former AOL and Spotify Executive Jared Grusd As New CEO — Jared Grusd, a former executive at AOL and Spotify, has been named the new chief executive at the Huffington Post. — Mr. Grusd spent the past four years as global head of corporate development and general counsel at Spotify.
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Variety, Poynter, @digitalshields and Wall Street Journal


Ads on Twitter, Facebook, and Google play key role for presidential candidates; Twitter was pitching budget of $25K-$50K for campaigns for Thursday debate — Candidates Poised to Spread Their Message Through Social Media — Robust digital operations include video, text, tweets and blogs
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@wexler and Bloomberg View


Profile of Issa Rae and the struggles she faced taking her web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, to HBO — The Misadventures of Issa Rae … Somewhere, during the elaborate choreography leading up to my initial meeting with Issa Rae, a miscommunication between her publicist …
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Clutch Magazine and The Awl


The Washington Post's audience has grown 65% YoY due to newsroom investment, embracing technology, and engaging in distribution partnerships — Is The Washington Post closing in on the Times? — Could it be? An old-fashioned newspaper war, but one fought in the digital trenches?
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Nieman Lab and capitalnewyork.com