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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Technology news aggregator Techmeme, sister site of Mediagazer, is launching a daily podcast called the Techmeme Ride Home — Because everyone has a podcast. (That's a good thing!) — Techmeme is an influential site that provides concise, headline-length summaries of the day's tech news.
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Felix Salmon / Wired:
Serial's success, followed by Gimlet Media's proven effort to commercialize the format at scale, and then NYT's The Daily paved the way for daily news podcasts
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Axios founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen chastised “the media” for coverage of former Trump staffer Sam Nunberg while Axios fed the same flames — “Awful scandal porn” shouted an Axios headline Tuesday. The unit of content, by Axios principles Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen …
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Women's Media Center:
Women's Media Center report: women of color represent 7.95% of US print newsroom staff, 12.6% of local TV news staff, and 6.2% of local radio staff — “It seems like there is a cap on people of color in newsrooms” — WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the Kerner Commission criticized …
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Gwilym Mumford / The Guardian:
The 2018 Oscars experienced a 16% decline YoY in ratings, with 26.5M US viewers watching the four-hour broadcast; Trump mocked the figures on Twitter — Broadcast for 2018 Academy Awards attracted 26.5m viewers, a 16% drop on last year's ceremony … US president Donald Trump has mocked …
Shonda Novak / Austin American-Statesman:
The Austin American-Statesman is being sold to GateHouse Media for $47.5M, ending 41+ years of ownership by Cox Enterprises; deal expected to close April 2 — The Austin American-Statesman is being sold to New York-based publishing company GateHouse Media, executives said Tuesday …
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Netflix's Chief Product Officer Greg Peters says the platform's 117M members streamed to 450M devices in February — Netflix's 117 million subscriber base streamed to 450 million individual devices in the last month, mostly TVs, the company's product chief said.
Marc Bennetts / The Guardian:
BBC journalist Farida Rustamova has accused senior Russian politician Leonid Slutsky of sexually harassing her during an interview in his parliamentary office — Farida Rustamova is third journalist to make harassment claims against Leonid Slutsky … A BBC journalist has accused …
Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Apple confirms it will stop taking submissions for iTunes LPs, with bundled items like videos or bonus tracks, as of this month; existing LPs will be available — Existing iTunes LPs will still be available going forward — Apple has confirmed to The Verge that it will stop taking new iTunes LP submissions as of this month.
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
NYT journalist Farhad Manjoo spent nearly two months relying solely on print for his news and concluded that digital has broken how we process information — I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago …
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Fox is aiming to reduce TV ad time to 2 minutes per hour by 2020, its ad sales chief Joe Marchese claimed at a private industry event in LA last week — Network announced the target at an event it hosted to discuss TV advertising's challenges — Fox Networks Group's ad sales chief …
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FierceCable, @briankusc, TVWeek.com, Business Insider, @daniel_knauf and The Wrap
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Examining “community information districts”, in which residents would agree to fees to support local journalism, similar to service districts for fire safety — It's how many communities fund libraries, build airports, or pay for hospitals. Could it also pay for local news?
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@norcalreporter, @infodistricts, @centercoopmedia, @derrickhozw, @brizzyc, @thensim0nsaid, @thensim0nsaid and @andrew_dunn
Bloomberg:
Weinstein Co. buyer Maria Contreras-Sweet said her group is pulling out of its deal to buy the studio after an examination raised questions about its viability — Weinstein Co. buyer Maria Contreras-Sweet said her group is pulling out of its deal to buy the failing film and TV studio …
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CNNMoney, New York Times, Deadline, The Wrap, @peterlattman, The Wrap, Financial Times, The A.V. Club, Glamour, @thr, TVWeek.com and Fortune
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Independent says BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan must have “misremembered” anecdote about traffic-boosting headline, mentioned during speech about press at uni — The Independent has said BBC media editor Amol Rajan “must have misremembered” an anecdote claiming he made a column …
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