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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
NYT looks to expand subscriber base in Texas and Florida with a new TV show called The Weekly debuting in June on Hulu and FX, and experiments with its paywall — - Cooking app shows that newspaper can reach rural customers — Publisher needs to find new markets to hit 10 million target
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Nieman Lab and Nieman Lab
Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
NYT says that a reporter and a photographer were disinvited from covering Vanity Fair's Oscar party; on Thursday, NYT ran a story on the party's inner workings — After a story published on Thursday, the paper's staffers say a reporter for the Times was disinvited to the magazine's Oscar party on Sunday.
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Peter M. Stevenson / Los Angeles Times:
Profile of Vanity Fair Editor Radhika Jones that looks at her past and efforts at more diversity in the magazine, ahead of her second Oscar party — It was a Sunday afternoon in West Hollywood, the host-less Academy Awards were one week away, and Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones had arrived …
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The Daily Caller, @nytstyles and @katierosman
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
Survey of 1,000 tech industry workers: 51% believe “Trump has a point when it comes to the media producing fake news”, 38% believe media has become too feminist — A new study by BuzzFeed News and Lucid surveyed tech workers on their attitudes toward the media.
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@mattmittenthal, @emilybell, @davidmackau, @cequirk, @anandwrites, @went1955, @rmac18, @yun, @carnage4life and @bernstein, more at Techmeme »
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube says it will remove ads on anti-vaccine videos, launches info panel below anti-vaccine videos that links to the Wikipedia page for “vaccine hesitancy” — YouTube on Friday said it would prevent channels that promote anti-vax content from running advertising …
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Nieman Lab, @drsherrypagoto, @bkphilanthropy, Gizmodo, Mashable, @slicedlime, @sidalpha, The Drum, Variety, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, Adweek, 9to5Google, The Daily Beast, The Wrap, NPR and @buzzfeeduk
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
After reports of pedophiles using YouTube comments to sexualize videos of children, YouTube warns creators it may demonetize videos with inappropriate comments
After reports of pedophiles using YouTube comments to sexualize videos of children, YouTube warns creators it may demonetize videos with inappropriate comments
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@slpng_giants, @profcarroll, @mattrosoff, Fast Company, Business Insider and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
MediaPost:
Survey of 34 publishers: 79% say readers are more willing to pay for content, up from 70% in 2018 and 82% say paid content is an integral part of their strategy — Publishers say tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are less supportive of the industry than they were a year ago …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Florida inmate sues the Florida Department of Corrections after he was told he has to repurchase $569 of music he bought after the FDOC changed music vendors — Prisoners who paid $1.70 per song lost access when the prison changed vendors. — Florida inmate William Demler says that since 2012 …
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Slate and Fast Company
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Eleven news organizations, including Rappler, and three universities in the Philippines team up to launch Tsek.ph, a new collaborative fact-checking project — On a Monday, Maria Ressa celebrated the launch of a new collaborative fact-checking project. Two days later, she was arrested on “cyber libel” charges.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Profile of The Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative website launched last month by former Weekly Standard staffers, which wants to call out Trump enablers — The Bulwark's writers are the new outlaws of conservative media. — Charlie sykes is sitting behind a desk in a sparse …
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@julianzelizer, @theatlantic, @billkristol and @mckaycoppins
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Podcasts are booming, with plenty of excitement but little money; Hollywood and Silicon Valley aim to change that through on-screen adaptations and acquisitions — About a decade ago, Hank and John Green, fraternal YouTube stars, founded VidCon, an annual convention in Anaheim, Calif. …
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@gerryfsmith
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK-based non-profit website, Investigative Journal, launches with reports on wiretaps exposing Turkish terrorist support and silencing of Pakistani journalists — A new investigative news website has launched in an effort to “counteract fake news and produce revelatory public interest investigations”.
Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
Alex French and Maximillian Potter on the back story of their Atlantic article on Bryan Singer and alleged pedophilia in Hollywood, which was spiked by Esquire — On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer's Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year.
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@madelineashby, @megancarpentier, @woodruffbets, @sunnysingh_n6, @yoloethics, @pamelacolloff, @sil_lai, @runwithskizzers and @jayrosen_nyu