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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, BBC, and more protest US secretary of state's plan for no media on his trip to Asia — D.C. bureau chiefs from major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Anonymous donor gives $1M to fund NYTimes.com subscriptions for students, joining 15.5K other donors to provide access to 1.3M students — The New York Times has shared some big numbers about the “Sponsor a Subscription” program that it launched in February: Thanks to contributions from 15,500 donors …
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The New York Times Company, New York Times, The Hill, Adweek, CNBC and Editor & Publisher
Corinne Grinapol / Adweek:
Recode hires Politico's Tony Romm, as a senior editor of policy and politics, and Bloomberg's Rani Molla, as the publication's first data editor — They'll be senior editor, policy and politics, and data editor, respectively — Recode EIC Dan Frommer announced two editor hires this morning …
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@karaswisher, @lock, @chrisgeidner, @edmundlee, @byersalex and Talking Biz News
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Condé Nast joins NBCU and Vox Media to sell ads across their combined digital properties and to compete against big ad platforms like Facebook and Google — Brands Can Now Buy Digital Inventory Across All Three Media Companies — Conde Nast is joining NBC Universal and Vox Media …
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Fortune, Fast Company, @tcarmody, @om, @bankoff, @mikeacase, @melissabell, @mikehadgis, @agolis, @dubois and @jpoggi
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Streaming media software maker Plex opens Plex Cloud service to all Plex Pass subscribers — After a couple of stops and starts — and some concerns — media player software maker Plex is opening its online service known as Plex Cloud to all paying Plex users.
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Plex, AppleInsider, Android Police, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Engadget and MacRumors
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sources: following a shakeup in editorial leadership, The Daily News has toned down its anti-Trump coverage because it was costing the paper subscriptions — For most of 2016, the New York Daily News was America's paper of opposition to Donald Trump. But in the months since the election …
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@gilbertcruz, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone, @mathewi, @isaacdovere, @timobrien, @ericboehlert, @richarddeitsch, @politico, @bgrueskin, @will_bunch, @joepompeo and @michaelkruse
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Interview with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who have sold a book on 2016 election to Penguin, to be published in 2018; HBO plans a miniseries based on book — On election night last year, the political journalists and analysts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann appeared on …
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Washington Post, Deadline, Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, CBS News, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Poynter and @jeremyscahill
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
A look at American Affairs, the newly launched quarterly journal dedicated to giving intellectual heft to Trumpism, founded by Julius Krein — William F. Buckley Jr. said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.
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The Baffler, bookforum.com, @ericathas, @brucebartlett, @freddydeknatel and @hamiltonnolan
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook to raise the allowed frequency of ads in Instant Articles, enabling insertion for every 250 words instead of every 350 words — Facebook's Instant Articles were always a bad deal for news outlets. While quick to load so they drove more readers, the hosted-on-Facebook mobile web format sterilized …
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Facebook Media and Adweek
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
A case study of Russia's RT, seen by some as a propaganda vehicle feeding the far right and viewed by staffers as a refreshing alternative to Western media — LONDON — The London newsroom and studios of RT, the television channel and website formerly known as Russia Today …
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Ad Age, @stevenleemyers, @alissanyt, @justinhendrix, @cliffordlevy, @gdebenedetti and @stephenswsj
Lincoln Archer / ABC News:
Australia's ABC News has attracted 1M subscribers to its Apple News alerts in the past six months — (ABC News cracked 1 million subscribers to its Apple News alerts with this message. The stories selected and the tone of the messages is tailored to the audience which likes to use this platform to get their news - Photo: ABC News)
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@tothevictor, @lincoln_archer and @abcnews
Adam Thomas:
Four European publishers, El País, The Guardian, Le Monde, and Spiegel Online launch The New Arrivals, a long-term project tracking migrants settling in Europe — Back in December, I was asked to contribute to Nieman Lab's Predictions for 2017 series and I wrote this about the coming collaboration across Europe.
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@datatheism, @gijn and @ejcnet