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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday, expected to cost $10/month; NYT and The Washington Post have opted out — SAN FRANCISCO — The Wall Street Journal plans to join a new paid subscription news service run by Apple, according to two people familiar …
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Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
After the events in New Zealand, journalists and tech companies should once again reflect on their roles in how extremist material enters the public square — Journalism has a panopticon problem. Just like the watchman in the center of Jeremy Bentham's theoretical circular prison …
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@jbenton and @columbiajourn
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Paige Leskin / Business Insider:
YouTube shut down Fantastic Adventures, a channel with 800K subscribers, as creator gets arrested for allegedly mistreating her kids who performed in the shows — - YouTube creator Machelle Hackney, behind the popular channel “Fantastic Adventures,” has been arrested in connection …
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BuzzFeed News, @broderick, @brionykidd, @ambiej, Washington Post, NBC News, The A.V. Club, The Daily Caller and The Daily Beast
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches two new fact-checking tools for journalists and says 50 partners are working with Subscribe With Google, including The Washington Post and FT — The Google News Initiative launched in 2018 to tackle “fake news” and create products that support journalists and the broader industry.
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Digiday, The Keyword, @googlenewsinit, @google, The Keyword and Fortune
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Interview with Donna Brazile on her job with Fox News, the role of the network and others in fomenting hate, and why she thinks reaching Fox viewers is valuable — Donna Brazile, who has twice served as the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, is one of the most prominent political strategists of recent times.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Analysts say ripple effects of the Disney-21st Century Fox deal may not be clear for years: predictions include 3,000+ layoffs and more competition in streaming — LOS ANGELES — “Everything the light touches is our kingdom.” — It's a line from Disney's “The Lion King,” spoken by Mufasa to young Simba as they sit atop Pride Rock.
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Variety, Fox News, Hollywood Reporter, @tonkohouse, @thr, Hollywood Reporter, FierceVideo, Multichannel News, Vanity Fair, MacRumors, The Week, Bloomberg and Los Angeles Times
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Sarah Feldberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
A lawsuit in California about the employment misclassification of delivery truck drivers prompts some companies to stop working with freelance reporters — Carrie Bell likes being her own boss. A full-time freelancer for nearly 18 years, she covers entertainment and travel for outlets like Yahoo and PopSugar.
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@malenawatrous, @rachaelmyrow, @paperalphabet, @candjattorneys, @wordchem, @bu_law and Columbia Journalism Review
Caroline Haskins / Motherboard:
Interviews detail the ongoing battle on YouTube between children-focused channels making animated videos and those featuring humans — Animated videos dominate the kids YouTube space. Humans are fighting against YouTube's algorithm to try and compete. — Last month, news feeds were saturated with distressing headlines about Momo.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count — Consider this: a parody account pretending to be an imaginary cow owned by Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Despite a diverse Democratic field for president in 2020, national media outlets focus on three white men, depicting candidates as characters in a drama — As amorous embraces go, few could be more ardent than the one Beto O'Rourke got this month from Vanity Fair magazine.
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
With no spammy notifications, bots and troll mentions, email newsletters are becoming a more attractive medium than news feeds for writers — SAN FRANCISCO — My favorite new social network doesn't incessantly spam me with notifications. When I post, I'm not bombarded with @mentions from bots and trolls.
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@nikillinit, @millie, @alexisohanian and Boing Boing
Lauren Easton / The Definitive Source:
AP's VP for Standards, John Daniszewski, highlights attacks on journalists globally, at an International Press Institute event at the UN: “We need to get angry” — “Cold-blooded killing of journalists by powerful individuals and governments to achieve their political and economic aims …
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Vlad Savov / The Verge:
By integrating Stadia into YouTube, Google plans to cement YouTube's dominance, as 200M users already watch gaming content there every day — Google's starting a revolution just to keep things as they are — Yesterday, Google announced plans for a new game-streaming service called Stadia.
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Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Forbes launches Forbes8, a streaming service aimed at entrepreneurs, featuring over 2,000 pieces of video content for $8.99 per month — Forbesnhas created an over-the-top streaming video platform for entrepreneurs in partnership with global SaaS tech company AW3 Media.
Reading Eagle:
The Reading Eagle Company in PA, with 236 full-time employees, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, plans to keep publishing its newspaper as it seeks a buyer — Reading Eagle Company, the family-owned business that has published the Reading Eagle newspaper for more than 150 years, is filing for bankruptcy protection.
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Poynter, CNN, @rogerdupuis2, @bobcesca_go, @richterific and @riley_yates
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