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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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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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Axios, Columbia Journalism Review, @dvnjr and CNN
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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Committee to Protect …, @bethangsioco, @reyaika and @sofiatomacruz
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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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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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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Press Gazette, New York Times, @oliverdarcy, TVWeek.com, The Daily Caller and Fortune
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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
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@eleanormontague, Mediaite, Mediaite, @senblumenthal, The Daily Beast, @marklandler, HuffPost, @newsweek, @melissaryan, @dandrezner, @melissaryan, @marquardta, @melissaryan, @brendannyhan, @kylegriffin1, @k_jeanpierre, CNN, @repswalwell, @mlcalderone, @rsf_en, @charlesmblow, @markfollman, Newsweek, @goddersbloom, @jondonnisonbbc, @pdanahar, @justinjm1, @perlmutations, @joenbc, @warrenleighttv, @jenniferjjacobs, @astroehlein, @anntelnaes, USA Today, Fortune, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Deadline, Slate, Committee to Protect …, Contemptor, NPR, TVNewser, Variety, The Intercept, The Guardian, Gothamist, American Press Institute, Fast Company, Boing Boing, Splinter and Newser
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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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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Slate, RAIN News and Hot Pod News
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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
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Nieman Lab, @kcmyway and Hot Pod News
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
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
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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