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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 …
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@christophclarey, @markberman and @pomeranian99
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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@art19co, @kelseyproud, @ezraklein, @marcoarment, @juiceboxca, @noahchestnut, @scottriggs, @scottmcgrew and @cyberjournalist
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Weekly music mag NME, the UK's equivalent of Rolling Stone, is ending its print edition but will continue to operate digitally — Publisher of music magazine consulting about redundancies, while title will continue online … The NME is to cease publication in print after 66 years …
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Nitasha Tiku / Wired:
Rep. David Cicilline says he plans to introduce a bill to exempt publishers from antitrust action, letting them negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook — ON STAGE AT a tech conference last month, Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships, fired a warning shot to publishers …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Newsweek-owned website IBT ran malicious code that experts say is used to commit ad fraud; company says it will conduct investigation — The company said it is conducting an internal investigation “to identify the individuals responsible and will take the necessary action.”
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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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@womensmediacntr and @sulliview
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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@blake_mitchell, @gregrajan, @caitlinrcruz, Gatehouse Media, @zwcomeau, @jayrosen_nyu, @seanfdriscoll and @jodyseaborn
Recode:
Early data from AdStage suggests Facebook's News Feed changes have driven ad prices up by decreasing the amount of time users spend on the social network — Mark Zuckerberg said people would spend less time on Facebook after the change. It looks like that might be happening.
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
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 …
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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