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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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NPR.org, @taradublinrocks, @megan_alpert, @jayrosen_nyu, @usprojectcjr, @jason_kint, @jackiephotog, @aktange, @mzbat and @sulomeanderson
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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
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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
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