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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
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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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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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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Washington Post:
Quartz's Global Chief Revenue Officer Joy Robins has joined the Washington Post as Chief Revenue Officer — The Washington Post today announced the appointment of Joy Robins as Chief Revenue Officer. Robins will oversee sales divisions that provide a range of innovative solutions …
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 and @quonky
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.
Avie Schneider / NPR:
Journalists at Connecticut's Hartford Courant are petitioning to unionize the newsroom, the latest Tribune Publishing paper to do so — Members of the Hartford Courant newsroom are moving to form a union, NPR has learned. It's the latest Tribune Publishing newspaper where journalists have been pushing to organize.
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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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Brooke Binkowski / BuzzFeed News:
Snopes former managing editor Brooke Binkowski on fixing the damage from Facebook: hire well-resourced moderators, give back more to journalism, and more — Facebook has always struggled to comprehend the scale of its fake news and propaganda problem. Now, it's struggling to retain …
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@tomgara and @gadyepstein
Julia Boorstin / CNBC:
Reddit raises $300M Series D at $3B valuation, with Tencent, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity among investors, says it has 330M MAUs, half between the ages of 18 and 24 — - CEO Steve Huffman says the company will use the investment to improve Reddit's website and work to take digital ad market share away from Facebook and Google.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC is streaming its Oscars red-carpet pre-show exclusively on Twitter this year, after two years of using Facebook as its official streaming partner — - Thrillist Makes First Content Acquisition With Food Show From YouTube's Timothy DeLaGhetto, David So — ABC is moving its Oscars red …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Leigh Gallagher, an assistant managing editor at Fortune, is joining Google as a director of external affairs — Leigh Gallagher, an assistant managing editor at Fortune, has been hired by Google to be a director of external affairs. — She will be based in New York.
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