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Sources: Apple's plan for a paid news service later this year runs into resistance from major publishers as Apple wants 50% of the revenue and not to share data — Apple plans to keep about 50% of subscription revenue from ‘Netflix for news’ service, likely won't share customer data with publishers
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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Sources say Apple plans to hold a special “services focused” event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater on its Apple Park campus — The company is expected to show off a long-rumored news subscription service. — Reporting From San Francisco, CA
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@verge, @daringfireball, MacRumors, @neilcybart, BGR, Variety, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and MAC blog, more at Techmeme »
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Organizers at BuzzFeed News announce they plan to form a union, nearly a month after more than 40 people were laid off from newsrooms — Last month, BuzzFeed laid off more than 220 employees, or 15 percent of its work force. On Tuesday, employees at the company's news division responded …
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BBC:
A Trump supporter attacked BBC cameraman Ron Skeans and other news crews at a rally in El Paso, Texas, where Trump used anti-press rhetoric — A supporter of US President Donald Trump has attacked a BBC cameraman at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. — Sporting a Make America Great Again cap …
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@eleanormontague, Mediaite, New York Times, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, @senblumenthal, @newsweek, @marklandler, CNN, Newsweek, @melissaryan, @dandrezner, @melissaryan, @marquardta, @kylegriffin1, @k_jeanpierre, @rsf_en, @repswalwell, @melissaryan, @mlcalderone, @brendannyhan, @charlesmblow, @markfollman, @goddersbloom, @jondonnisonbbc, @pdanahar, @justinjm1, USA Today, @perlmutations, @joenbc, @warrenleighttv, @jenniferjjacobs, @astroehlein, @anntelnaes, Fortune, Washington Post, Deadline, The Daily Caller, Slate, Contemptor, Committee to Protect …, NPR, TVNewser, The Guardian, Variety, The Intercept, Gothamist, American Press Institute, Fast Company, Boing Boing, Splinter, Newser and Mashable
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Washington Post:
How Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund behind Digital First Media, has used a real estate subsidiary to get profits out of newspaper companies like Gannett — When the building housing the downtown Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper sold last April, the name of the buyer — Twenty Lake Holdings LLC — seemed of little consequence.
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Charlie Deitch / Pittsburgh Current:
Some Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff ask that the publisher be banned from the building or searched on entering, after a newsroom “tirade” from him late Saturday — Members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh have asked that Post-Gazette Publisher John Robinson Block be banned …
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NEXTpittsburgh, Pittsburgh Current, @jeffjarvis, @michaelafuoco, @nolanrosenkrans, @erinehebert and @johnmcquaid
Shahien Nasiripour / Bloomberg:
Documents show National Enquirer publisher AMI and its parent have $1B+ in debt; CFO says “no direct investment in the company's debt or equity by the Saudis” — - AMI had negative net worth as of Sept. 30, documents show — Losses spurred borrowing, leading to more than $1 billion debt
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@kylegriffin1, @edmundlee, @beet_tv, @edmundlee, @davidjoachim, @gerryfsmith, @will_bunch and @jimrutenberg
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Review into sustaining high-quality journalism in the UK culminates in a 157-page report with nine recommendations including an innovation fund and tax cuts — The Cairncross Review into the sustainability of the UK news industry in the digital age has issued nine recommendations that …
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Nieman Lab, @jimwaterson, The Guardian, Journalism.co.uk, @jamesrbuk, @jimwaterson, Press Gazette, National Union of Journalists, @niemanlab, @mathewi, @niemanlab, @ruralj, @akshatrathi, @livingstone_s, @anneapplebaum, @cjsnowdon, @flying_rodent, @jimwaterson, @raoldroyd, Adweek, @emilybell, GOV.UK, Telegraph, Behind Local News UK and Financial Times
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
More than 240K people donated to 154 newsrooms in November and December 2018 via the NewsMatch program, with donations in 2018 up 50% YoY to $116M — In journalism's long and treacherous move away from ad dependency, the growing nonprofit news sector is trying to build a culture of philanthropy.
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Josh Stearns, NewsMatch, @jayrosen_nyu, @elzbthtilis, @priprxresdev, @macfound, @jcstearns, @raju, @knightfdn and Fortune
Reuters:
Sources: Apollo Global Management may announce a deal to buy Cox Enterprises' 14 regional TV stations this week; Apollo is also bidding on some Nexstar stations — Apollo Global Management LLC is nearing a roughly $3 billion agreement to acquire Cox's TV stations, the biggest in a series …
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Boston Business Journal, Multichannel News and MediaPost
Max Willens / Digiday:
TechCrunch launches a $15/month membership tier, Extra Crunch, offering exclusive content and perks like access to a community of founders and vertical experts — TechCrunch has spent nearly 15 years covering the technology and startup worlds. This week it will try to forge a new kind of relationship with those communities.
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TechCrunch, @gaberivera, @mdudas, @danielpmcdermot, @alex, @dannycrichton and Talking Biz News, more at Techmeme »
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Medium has acquired 10-year-old online culture magazine The Bold Italic to boost the social publishing platform's premium content offering in California — Medium is seeking to juice up its premium subscription content in its home market with the acquisition of The Bold Italic.
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The Bold Italic, @quonky and @ashugarg
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