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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Despite Apple's dominant role in podcasting, the medium has remained decentralized and open; individual podcasters would suffer if Apple asserted more control — This New York Times article gets a lot wrong, and both podcast listeners and podcast producers should be clear on Apple's actual role …
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John Herrman / New York Times:
Apple met with top podcasters as concerns have grown about its commitment to the medium; lack of sharing tools, analytics, paid subs remain industry sore points — Steven P. Jobs put his talent as a master salesman to the test when, in 2005, he introduced new Apple software for downloading digital audio shows.
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Elle Hunt / Guardian:
Blogger who faked cancer and recovery faces legal action from consumer watchdog in Australia; Penguin fined $30K for publishing her book without fact-checking — Consumer Affairs Victoria has commenced legal proceedings against founder of recipe and lifestyle app The Whole Pantry
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Business news streaming startup Cheddar launching premium $6.99/mo service powered by Vimeo — Streaming video site from former BuzzFeed executive Jon Steinberg will start charging $6.99 a month — Former BuzzFeed executive Jon Steinberg's effort to create a Web-based “CNBC for millennials” is going behind a paywall.
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Tom Dotan / The Information:
Investment in equipment and personnel for video at Mashable Studios sent Mashable's costs soaring to $4M-$5M/month — As this week's Newfront digital video ad presentations in New York highlight, most news sites have been building up video production in the past couple of years.
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BBC:
BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and team expelled from North Korea — BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team are being expelled from North Korea after being detained over their reporting. — Our correspondent, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were stopped …
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Magna Global shifts $250M from its clients' TV ad budgets to spend on YouTube between October 2016 and December 2017 — Magna Global signs upfront deal with YouTube for October 2016 through December 2017, as TV ratings remain under pressure — Magna Global, the ad buying arm …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
GroundTruth, a Boston-based non-profit, which aims to train and support foreign correspondents, tries to plug gap in foreign reporting through podcasting — How do you listen to international news, if you listen to it at all? You might catch a segment on NPR or stream the BBC World Service.
Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
Profile of Jared Kushner, owner and publisher of New York Observer and Donald Trump's son-in-law — As the fuzzy strains of the Beatles' Revolution filled the room, Donald Trump took the stage on Feb. 9 in Manchester, N.H., to celebrate his victory in the state's Republican presidential primary.
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David Riordan:
Eulogy for The New York Times R&D Lab, which launched companies, built prototypes, inspired others, and imagined the future — The New York Times R&D Lab, a groundbreaking department of applied creative technology that helped one of the great institutions of journalism see how it could thrive amidst …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Ben Rhodes, an Obama national security adviser, says he pushed a “narrative” of the Iran nuclear deal, relied on “know nothing” reporters to accept it — One of President Obama's top national security advisers led journalists to believe a misleading timeline …
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BBC:
Khurram Zaki, editor of website Let us Build Pakistan, shot dead in Karachi — A prominent Pakistani journalist and human rights activist, Khurram Zaki, has been shot dead in Karachi. — Reports say Mr Zaki was dining in a restaurant in the north of the city when four suspects opened fire from two motorbikes.
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