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The NYT's 2020 report: the paper has 1.5M+ digital-only subs but needs to rapidly expand subscription revenue, hints at potential cuts to editing jobs, more — This report, by a team of seven Times journalists, outlines the newsroom's strategy and aspirations.
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In newsroom memo, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn confirm the paper will face budget cuts in 2017 — Please see below for a note from executive editor, Dean Baquet, and managing editor, Joe Kahn: — Colleagues, — Our newsroom has been through …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Goals in NYT 2020 report: aggressive Trump coverage, budget cuts focusing on multilayered editing, more hiring of visual experts, more training, staff diversity — “For all the progress we have made, we still have not built a digital business large enough on its own to support a newsroom that can fulfill our ambitions."
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Chelsea Manning to be freed on May 17 rather than in 2045 after Obama commutes bulk of 35-year sentence — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak …
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Sources: publishers think it's unlikely Facebook will renew paid livestreaming deals, as it has been pushing them to focus on creating longer content — Publishers don't expect Facebook to renew the deals it was pushing last spring; now Facebook wants something else.
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Turkey detains New York Times correspondent Rod Nordland at Istanbul airport and then forces him to fly back to London without providing an explanation — Border officials in Turkey detained a veteran New York Times correspondent as he arrived at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul on Tuesday …
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Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps, on access, airtime, objective truth, dividing the press corps, and more — Dear Mr. President Elect: — In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps.
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Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Fox to offer free livestream of the Super Bowl on FoxSportsGo.com as well as mobile and smart TV apps — Non-authenticated stream to support local ad insertion from participating Fox affiliates — Fox said it will offer a live, non-authenticated stream of Super Bowl LI via Fox Sports Go …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Dan Rather on Trump, BuzzFeed's decision to publish unverified allegations, his new social media stardom, and how journalism has changed — The veteran newsman speaks with the Hive about the threat facing journalism, his new social-media stardom, and how he ended up on the president-elect's “not-so-great” list.
Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed:
ProPublica partners with BuzzFeed, NYT, Univision, Google News Lab, and others to launch Documenting Hate, a project tracking hate crimes — Have you been the victim of a hate crime? Have you seen others attacked for their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, trans status, disability, or sexual orientation?
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, the journalist behind some of the biggest scoops on Trump during election campaign, joins CNN as a contributor — Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, a breakout star of the 2016 campaign for his coverage of Donald Trump's foundation, is CNN's newest contributor.
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Associated Press:
UC Davis protests led to cancellation of talk by Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos, Martin Shkreli; UC Davis' Interim Chancellor says he's “deeply disappointed” — DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Speeches by far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos (yuh-NAH'-poh-lihs) and former pharmaceutical …
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