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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, Fortune, The Hill, Adweek, CNBC and Editor & Publisher
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
WikiLeaks' CIA document cache, which focuses on compromising devices and not apps, underscores the strength of Signal's and WhatsApp's encryption — On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.”
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9to5Mac, @dabeard, @dangillmor, @amy_siskind, @sparrowmedia and www.wnyc.org
James Warren / Poynter:
New Jersey journalists launch Montclair Local, a 2-section, 16-page weekly newspaper costing $12/year, delivered to about 15K households — Montclair is a New Jersey bastion of the Trump-doubting privileged class that went back to the future Thursday with an imperiled species: a new broadsheet newspaper.
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@poynter, @jimwarren55 and Montclair Local
Maev Kennedy / The Guardian:
Food blogger Jack Monroe has won about $30K in Twitter libel case against Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins — Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial — The food writer and campaigner Jack Monroe …
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Press Gazette, BBC, @davidtpegg and mirror
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, Poynter, Jezebel, The Daily Caller, Hollywood Reporter, CBS News, The Guardian, @jeremyscahill, Business Insider, Deadline and Vanity Fair
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, Android Police, AppleInsider, The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, MacRumors and 9to5Mac
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a group including Jahm Najafi, of private investment firm Najafi Cos., and Pamplona Capital Management has emerged as a bidder for Time Inc. — Competitive sales process for publisher appears to be nearing completion, even in the wake of Bronfman group dropping its bid
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@asharma, @jeffreyt1 and Fortune
Ross Benes / Digiday:
BI UK will test an anti-ad blocker prompting readers to either whitelist BI, pay for an ad-free subscription, or pay a few pennies to see an article ad-free — As its staff sized nearly doubled over the last year to 45 employees, Business Insider U.K. moved shop in January to a larger co-working space …
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@larakiara
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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Talking Biz News, @karaswisher, @lock, @chrisgeidner, @edmundlee and @byersalex
Sara Fischer / Axios:
CTA study finds video viewership has increased by 30% in the last five years, but TV accounts for only about half of all video viewership, down from 62% in 2013 — Data: Consumer Technology Association; Chart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios — A new Consumer Technology Association study finds …
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
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