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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Apple has signed many publishers to its upcoming news service with a 50% revenue split, sources say, but that split likely won't satisfy major newspapers — Magazine publishers are on board with Apple's new subscription news service. Newspapers aren't. — Apple says it wants to help save journalism.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Apple plans an April or May launch date for its video streaming service, but Netflix won't participate and HBO hasn't committed — - Apple is targeting April to debut a new streaming product that will include original content free for Apple device owners and a platform to subscribe to other digital media services.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will unveil both its video and news subscription offerings at a March 25 event — - Company also plans to unveil news service at March 25 event — New subscription offerings may boost revenue of key segment — Apple Inc. is planning to unveil video …
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
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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
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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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Lian Buan / RAPPLER:
Rappler's Executive Editor Maria Ressa is being detained in jail over night after a judge refused to process her bail — (UPDATED) ‘If somehow the government feels that by keeping me the night, they can intimidate me, no, we will hold the line,’ says Maria Ressa
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The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh:
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh releases accounts of Publisher John Robinson Block's newsroom visit, where he berated staff and frightened his young daughter — After much careful consideration, the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has decided to release some of the eyewitness accounts …
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L.A. Times Guild:
The Los Angeles Times Guild pushes back against a proposal that potentially broadens management's control over employees' book or movie deals — Journalists at the Los Angeles Times are pushing back against a sweeping company proposal on intellectual property rights that would mark an unprecedented low for the media industry.
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L.A. Times Guild, @mattdpearce, @wgladstone, @laura_nelson, Washington Post and @jaweedkaleem
Reveal:
Matt Thompson, executive editor of The Atlantic, is joining California's Center for Investigative Reporting as editor-in-chief — EMERYVILLE, Calif. - The Center for Investigative Reporting has appointed Matt Thompson as its new editor in chief. — Thompson will oversee CIR's award-winning newsroom …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Brightcove acquires Ooyala's online video platform business for about $15M, with $6.25M in cash and the rest in Brightcove shares — Brightcove just announced that it's acquiring Ooyala's online video platform business. — The deal brings together two long-lasting players in the online video industry.
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: after 15% of BuzzFeed News overall headcount was cut last month, current and former staffers are questioning Jonah Peretti's vision — - BuzzFeed just laid off 15% of its staff, including its first big cuts in its news division, BuzzFeed News. — The cuts were a reckoning …
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Washington Post:
Trump backer Tom Barrack apologizes for not making it clear that the murder of Jamal Khashoggi was inexcusable, in recent comments he made in the UAE — Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a billionaire real estate investor who is one of President Trump's closest confidants, apologized Wednesday …
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Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
“Since Parkland” goes live with profiles of ~1,200 children killed by gun violence, written by high school reporters who were trained and paid by The Trace — On Saturday morning, a team of 20 journalists gathered at the Brooklyn offices of The Trace, a nonprofit outlet for gun-related news in the US.
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Nicole Dieker / The Billfold:
Personal finance site The Billfold is shutting down on February 20 and its archives will remain online — Sad news, everyone. Let's do this Q&A style, 'cause that's how I usually do big Billfold announcements. — The Billfold is shutting down? — Yes. — Really? — Yes.
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@mattdpearce
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
How former staffers of LA Weekly, who were fired by a new owner, regrouped to create a quarterly magazine for Los Angeles called The LAnd — After a new owner fired nine of the alt-weekly's 13 staffers in 2017, former contributors, fans and community members boycotted, then envisioned a new L.A.-based publication.
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@rungomez, @thelandmagazine and @katiekilkenny7
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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