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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
At the Oscars, Netflix's Roma wins Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Film, but not Best Picture — “Roma” took home three Academy Awards tonight — though not Best Picture, which went to “Green Book.” — Alfonso Cuarón did win an Oscar for directing the film.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Interview with The New York Times' CEO Mark Thompson on the importance of NYT's brand in growing the subscriber numbers, how he'd run a local paper, more — “I believe that if you're producing journalism of value, there is no reason to expect that consumers wouldn't be prepared, in some way …
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@akademie_abp and @niemanlab
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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.
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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@michaelluo and Page Six
Washington Post:
The Washington Post announces the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship, a new global opinions program established to honor the late Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi — Award-winning Saudi scholar and activist Hala Al-Dosari named inaugural fellow — The Washington Post today announced the launch …
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@washpostpr, @gerddoha, @ikaveri and @ahmed
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sultan Mohamed Abuljadayel has been named as the mysterious off-shore purchaser of a stake in London's Evening Standard newspaper — Mohamed Abuljadayel's £25m stake is yet another Middle Eastern interest in UK media — The mysterious off-shore purchaser of a stake …
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Financial Times
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Interviews with current and former Facebook content moderators in US show they make $28K/year, are routinely high at work, and can develop PTSD-like symptoms — The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training …
Alex Wong / New York Times:
How TV sports anchors like SportsCenter's Scott Van Pelt are finding new ways to connect with viewers in an age of instant sports highlights on social media — Scott Van Pelt closed an episode of “SportsCenter” last month with a two-minute monologue about the 31st anniversary of his father's death.
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@theginamiller
Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Q&A with WSJ EIC Matt Murray on Murdoch's hands-off approach to the paper's Trump coverage, how tech has impacted the news business, and the ongoing China story — “Rupert Murdoch has never given me one instruction about how to cover Trump.” — Matt Murray was named editor-in-chief …
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@raju
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, @amywebb and @jeremylittau
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
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
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