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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, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, @neilcybart, BGR, Variety, Business Insider 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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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 — Pittsburgh Current Editor — charlie@pittsburghcurrent.com — Members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh …
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NEXTpittsburgh, Pittsburgh Current, @jeffjarvis, @michaelafuoco, @nolanrosenkrans, @erinehebert and @johnmcquaid
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, The Guardian, @jimwaterson, Journalism.co.uk, @jamesrbuk, @jimwaterson, Press Gazette, National Union of Journalists, @cjsnowdon, @niemanlab, @mathewi, @flying_rodent, @raoldroyd, @niemanlab, @jimwaterson, @ruralj, @akshatrathi, @anneapplebaum, @livingstone_s, Adweek, GOV.UK, @emilybell, Telegraph, Behind Local News UK and Financial Times
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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Poynter, @sulliview, @laurakeeley, @mcmuckraker, @wendi_c_thomas, @charlesornstein, @byrosenberg, @benpershing, @murphywoodhouse, @spytalker, @grlreporter and @robpegoraro
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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, @raju, @jayrosen_nyu, @knightfdn, @elzbthtilis, @priprxresdev, @macfound, @jcstearns 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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Multichannel News, Boston Business Journal 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
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
MGM-owned cable channel EPIX is adapting Slate magazine's podcast Slow Burn into a six-part television docuseries — The MGM-owned premium cable channel EPIX announced on Sunday that they have given a greenlight to Slow Burn, a television adaptation of the popular Slate podcast created by Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons.
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Nieman Lab, Slate, @kcmyway and Hot Pod News
Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
Journalists documenting the migrant caravans are subject to heightened scrutiny by US and Mexican law enforcement officials, interviews reveal — Four photojournalists gathered on the southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border wall shortly after Christmas in Tijuana.
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