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New York Times:
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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The New York Times Company:
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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Politico, Washington Post, Digiday, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, @noahchestnut, @mathewi, @michaelluo and @mlcalderone
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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@dannysullivan, @felixsalmon, Poynter, @mathewi, The Daily Caller, @mathewi, @hale_a, Variety, @sarahmorgan and Editor & Publisher
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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Nieman Lab, @caseyjohnston, @nategoldman, Fortune, New York Magazine, Engadget, Ad Age, @rafat, @brianboyer, @ourmaninchicago, @jbenton, @stevekovach, @jilliancyork, @kantrowitz, SocialTimes and Media Star
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
After being criticised by Trump on Twitter, Vanity Fair gained 80K subscribers; Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter says 2016 may have been the magazine's best year — The tweet that launched 80,000 subscriptions — A month has passed since Donald Trump gave Vanity Fair the social-media equivalent …
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Variety and The Guardian
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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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's threats against the press are mostly cheap stunts and bluffs, and journalistic access to White House isn't necessary for reporters to do their jobs
Trump's threats against the press are mostly cheap stunts and bluffs, and journalistic access to White House isn't necessary for reporters to do their jobs
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Variety, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, bookforum.com, @peggynoonannyc, @webradius, Politico and Washington Examiner
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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@greekanalyst and @brianstelter
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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
A look at Axios as it launches today: a “nesting doll” of news with individual articles within excerpted summaries within a larger news stream — Chances are, you're not going to finish this article. — The rise of social media has turned us into a legion of swipers and scrollers who rarely reach the end of a story.
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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@miriamelder, @tomnamako, @schoofsfeed and First Draft News
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.
Jonno Revanche / The Guardian:
In an age of clickbait and online surveillance, the tactile experience of reading zines has gained a subversive appeal — The comeback of zines contradicts almost everything assumed about millennials. There's a liberty in reading material without being monitored