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12:40 PM ET, March 24, 2019

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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple will charge $9.99/mo each for subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, and Starz, monetize its own content; premium news service will cost $9.99/mo  —  For the first time, Apple will present its Services vision to the public at tomorrow's March 25 event.
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Netflix's absence from Apple's media bundle portends a fight in content distribution; Goldman Sachs says the bundle could add $12B+ to Apple's Services business  —  The first skirmishes have already been fought in what could turn into a tech cold war.  “The game is on,” said the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings.
Justin Peters / Slate:
How The Joe Rogan Experience, the second-most-downloaded podcast on iTunes in 2017 and 2018, became a platform for “freethinkers” who are aggravated by the left  —  On Feb. 7, on the 1,241st episode of his podcast, comedian Joe Rogan kicked off a discussion of one of the signal injustices …
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Parties named in Atlantic's story saying Sirota secretly advised Sanders campaign while critiquing other candidates in the media, deny key claims of the story  —  The Atlantic on Tuesday published a sensationalistic series of accusations by reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere aimed at long …
Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter:
Q&A with the director of French fact-checking service CheckNews, about tripling its audience to 11M page views in Dec. 2018, amidst Yellow Vest protests  —  In June, the fact-checking community was introduced to CheckNews.fr.  —  The project, which debuted at the fifth annual Global Fact-Checking Summit …
Discussion: @poynter
Mollie Leavitt / The Idea:
Interview with Civil CEO Vivian Schiller on trying to get journalism on the blockchain, and leading digital efforts at companies like NYT and NBC  —  This week, The Idea caught up with Vivian Schiller, the CEO of the Civil Media Foundation.  Vivian reflects on her career on the precipice …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A list of some of the potential contenders for the Pulitzers, scheduled for April 15, including WaPo's Jamal Khashoggi coverage and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood  —  Journalists prepare their brackets for April Madness.  —  April madness is around the corner, which means that newsrooms around …
Discussion: @spj_tweets
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The New Humanitarian, a relaunch of IRIN News covering humanitarian crises, which now has ~170K unique visitors/month and 40K+ newsletter subscribers  —  “It's one thing to have been an internal information center for an international NGO.  It's another thing to become a full newsroom …
The Keyword:
Interview with Olivia Ma, the director and co-founder of Google News Labs, on the one-year anniversary of the Google News Initiative  —  When I was growing up, reading the news meant thumbing through the local paper every week on my way to the Sunday comics section.
Mr. Magazine:
Q&A with Will Welch, the new EIC of GQ, about his vision for the magazine, the relevance of a men's fashion magazine in the age of social media, and more  —  There's a new era at GQ and the man running the epoch is Will Welch.  The dynamic, newly refreshed generation of the magazine …
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Skepticism about Facebook's intentions was widespread among startups and nonprofits at the Local Media Summit, sponsored by Facebook, Knight Foundation, and ONA  —  This week, journalists from dozens of small startups and non-profits joined funders and journalism academics at a small …
 
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
AT&T's anime-focused Crunchyroll is raising the subscription price for its video service from $6.95 to $7.99/month, effective May 1 for new subscribers
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Twitter is inserting tweets into the feeds of users that do not follow the accounts which posted them, sometimes inadvertently amplifying extremist rhetoric
Reuters:
NYT CEO says third-party distribution deals lead to loss of product control, compares news outlets that partner with Apple to studios that helped Netflix grow