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Abigail Geiger / Pew Research Center:
Survey: the percentage of US adults using the internet (89%), smartphones (77%), and social media (69%) has plateaued and remains nearly unchanged since 2016 — The use of digital technology has had a long stretch of rapid growth in the United States, but the share of Americans who go online …
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@pewresearch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, @newthoughtmktg and @pewresearch, more at Techmeme »
H.G. Watson / JSource:
Public Policy Forum report shows the total number of newspaper articles in Canada fell by almost half in 10 years, city hall coverage has been most impacted — Public Policy Forum research could indicate that local newspapers are being saturated by wire service stories, rather than featuring local political coverage.
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Nieman Lab and Public Policy Forum
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News:
Infowars host Alex Jones gatecrashed a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival with a bullhorn; livestream on secondary Infowars Twitter account only had 15K views — This is a very quick ‘emergency edition’ of the newsletter, live from Austin, Texas, where yesterday morning Alex Jones crashed a panel I was on …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Examining the lack of diversity among the White House press corps: The NYT, Politico, The WSJ, Reuters, and USA Today have no minority reporters covering Trump — The New York Times hired its seventh reporter to cover the White House last month, giving the newspaper one of the largest contingents of correspondents on the beat.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Dutch publisher De Correspondent says its 2017 revenue was $4.5M and 94% of it came directly from readers via membership fees, donations, and book sales — There are benefits of getting revenue directly from audiences. But as Dutch subscription publisher De Correspondent is finding, that revenue comes with disclosure obligations.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @ejpfauth, @the_corres, @editorpublisher, @niemanlab and The Correspondent
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Bloomberg Media's text-to-audio function, introduced in May, has become the second-most popular media type on its app, behind live TV — Bloomberg Media in May introduced a text-to-audio function in its app and online with the hunch that commuters would prefer to multitask while getting their news.
Eric Nuzum / Audio Insurgent:
Despite some worries about falling ad prices, podcasting audiences and ad budgets are growing as the medium matures and moves past the gold rush stage — What tulips, cryptocurrency, and bespoke home-delivered dog food can tell us about the resilience of audio and the madness of crowds
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@ericnuzum, @internetryan, @mikeisaac, @zkahn, @ericnuzum, @kylesgibson and @shgeldz, more at Techmeme »
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
The Washington Times settles suit with Aaron Rich, brother of Seth Rich, issues retraction and deletes column; Rich to keep pursuing legal action against others — The Washington Times on Monday issued a lengthy retraction and apology for an editorial it published in March about Aaron Rich …
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@laurawalkerkc, Washington Times, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy and Boing Boing
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Center for Media Engagement experiments: readers are more likely to click on links with images, links at the end of an article, and links to related content — Are you more likely to click here? — ....................................... ........................................ ...............over here?
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Center for Media Engagement, @taliastroud, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Tow Center study of digital adaption in local news: Google's reach, from AMP to ads, is pervasive, 12% of outlets don't have a website, 80% have a Facebook page — So you want to support local news. But can you even find the subscribe button on the Daily Planet's clunky website to do so?
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@cjr, @niemanlab, @thelocalnewslab, @janebsinger, @jesseholcomb, Columbia Journalism Review and @towcenter
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
A look at Spokane's free weekly, the Inlander, which has survived independently for 25 years by focusing on local stories and being wary of expansion — This originally appeared in Local Edition, our newsletter following the digital transformation of local news. Want to be part of the conversation?
Bloomberg:
Profile of Bytedance, a China-based social news and video startup that may soon surpass Uber in valuation if rumored $1.5B SoftBank investment at $75B closes — - Bytedance's said to be valued at over $75 billion in new round — SoftBank is said to plan an investment of about $1.5 billion
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