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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
How NYT plans to avoid the Trump slump and sign up 10M paying subscribers by 2025 through global expansion, attracting a younger audience via podcasts, and more — Mark Thompson's nautical and military metaphors have generated some ribbing from others at The New York Times.
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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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Akshat Rathi / Quartz:
Craig Newmark on where his motivation to support journalism comes from, how he chooses the beneficiaries, and what he wants to achieve with his philanthropy — Craig Newmark became a billionaire on the back of creating Craigslist, a website for classified ads.
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@tracysheridan, @jeremylittau, @amywebb and Washington Post
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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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
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@dylanbyers, @dylanbyers, @jimrutenberg, @chubailiang, @brooksbarnesnyt, @mcastimovies, @thrmattbelloni, @adamnagourney, @katierosman, Page Six, Mediaite and WWD
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Focusing on subscribers, Netflix has different incentives than polarizing ad-based platforms, highlighting what its viewers in 190 countries may have in common — Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it's aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience.
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@claudferraz, @kainazamaria, @rianvdm and @lthomasnews, more at Techmeme »
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.
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@dpfunke
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 …
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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@niemanreports and @gerryfsmith
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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@carnage4life, @emilybell, @yun, @cequirk, @went1955, @rmac18, @mattmittenthal, @davidmackau, @anandwrites and @bernstein
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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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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@lisamcintire, @madelineashby, @megancarpentier, @woodruffbets, @sunnysingh_n6, @yoloethics, @pamelacolloff, @sil_lai, @runwithskizzers and @jayrosen_nyu
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”.
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