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Aika Rey / RAPPLER:
Rappler CEO Maria Ressa arrested by Philippines National Bureau of Investigation on cyber libel charges over story published four months before cyber law passed — The arrest is in connection with a story published by Rappler in May 2012 - or 4 months before the law that Maria Ressa …
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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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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Apple plans to hold a subscription services-focused event on March 25 at its Apple Park campus to announce a subscription news service — The company is expected to show off a long-rumored news subscription service. — Reporting From San Francisco, CA
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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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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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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
“Yellow vest” activist James Goddard has been charged with assault after allegedly threatening photographer Joel Goodman in Manchester — “Yellow vest” activist James Goddard has been charged with assault after allegedly threatening a Manchester Evening News photographer.
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Jon Sopel / BBC:
The attack on BBC's Ron Skeans at a Trump rally was no surprise, and hostility towards the media is growing without a presidential condemnation of violence — I would really love to be able to say when I heard about the attack on our cameraman Ron Skeans that I was surprised. Or shocked even.
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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 Trump supporter attacked BBC cameraman Ron Skeans and other news crews at a rally in El Paso, Texas, where Trump used anti-press rhetoric
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Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
Slate launches Supporting Cast in beta, a new service that lets podcast creators set up paid subscription layers, says it is invite only for now — As the Swedish dust from last week's Spotify acquisition-palooza settles, there's little time to wait. Slate, the veteran digital media company …
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Matthew Dessem / Slate:
MGM-owned cable channel EPIX is adapting Slate magazine's podcast Slow Burn into a six-part television docuseries
MGM-owned cable channel EPIX is adapting Slate magazine's podcast Slow Burn into a six-part television docuseries
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Nieman Lab, @kcmyway and Hot Pod News
Oliver Darcy / CNN's Reliable Sources:
The NYT says Glenn Thrush's byline appeared on stories related to Trump because he's subbing for a Capitol Hill reporter and reporting merged with WH coverage — Mass murders get national attention. Daily murders usually don't. But McClatchy and The Trace came up with a way to change that.
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Columbia Journalism Review, Axios, Mashable and CNN
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed News is partnering with The Toronto Star to report on misinformation during Canada's 2019 general election — 2019 is a general election year in Canada (as it is in many countries around the world), and the Toronto Star wanted to be on top of the misinformation and disinformation efforts …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Network lost a record 381K satellite TV subs in the fourth quarter of 2018, as a result of the carriage standoffs with HBO and Univision — Dish Network lost a record 381,000 satellite TV subs in the fourth quarter of 2018, as the carriage standoffs with AT&T's HBO and Univision accelerated …
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TechCrunch, Multichannel News and MediaPost
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, @jeffjarvis, @erinehebert, @johnmcquaid, @michaelafuoco, @nolanrosenkrans and Pittsburgh Current
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Roger Stone requested Wednesday that a judge hold a hearing about his conspiracy theory that CNN was tipped off about his arrest before it happened last month — Roger Stone requested Wednesday that a judge hold a hearing on the conspiracy theory that CNN was tipped off about his arrest before it happened last month.