Mediagazer: 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 (MediaPost)

10:40 AM ET, February 24, 2019

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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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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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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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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 — A new controversy this week over the sexualized exploitation of children on YouTube has set off a wave of advertiser boycotts …

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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”

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CNBC:
AT&T says it is pulling all advertising from YouTube after reports of pedophiles openly using the platform; Nestle and Epic Games have also pulled ads

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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 …

Discussion: 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.

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. …

Discussion: @gerryfsmith

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 …

Discussion: @julianzelizer, @billkristol, @mckaycoppins and @theatlantic

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.

Discussion: @madelineashby, @megancarpentier, @woodruffbets, @sunnysingh_n6, @yoloethics, @pamelacolloff, @sil_lai, @runwithskizzers and @jayrosen_nyu

Jacob Goldberg / Columbia Journalism Review:

Limited information channels meant the same Rohingya victims of sexual violence were interviewed many times for different outlets, incurring an additional toll — In late 2017, on the shores of southern Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people completed a grueling march to escape …

Discussion: @niccijsmith, @suchitrav and @sulomeanderson

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