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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple will charge $9.99/mo each for HBO, Showtime, and Starz subscriptions, and will 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.
Steven Greenhouse / Nieman Reports:
A look at recent efforts to unionize digital newsrooms, as staff aim to lift the salary floor, improve basic benefits, and shield against industry volatility — Journalists are saying yes to unions to lift salary floors, win or improve basic benefits, and provide some cushion to the industry's volatility
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@markhannamedia, @jamieson, @spj_tweets, @greenhousenyt, @andreasharsono, @amlwhere and @jbenton
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: YouTube has canceled plans for high-end dramas and comedies as it pulls back from earlier plans for a paid service with Hollywood-quality shows — - Google video unit is said to cancel plans for high-end series — Executive Susanne Daniels is said to be looking to move on
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Reuters, @warmoth, @loudmouthjulia, @richbtig and @lucas_shaw
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 …
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are in talks to merge — - Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are in talks to merge, say three people familiar with the situation. — The digital media business has been rife with speculation about potential mergers between venture-funded digital media outlets …
James Walker / Press Gazette:
CEO of digital magazine subscription service Readly talks about Apple's entry into the news subscription business, the rumored 50/50 revenue split, and more — The chief executive of digital magazine subscription service Readly has said he would “welcome” the entrance of Apple into the market …
Discussion:
@sherman4949, @ifortknox and @davewiner
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 …
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 …
Mark Gardiner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter Mark Gardiner describes how a story he wrote in 2003, about a motorcyclist who saved lives in a tunnel fire in France, turned out to be a myth — In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @cjr, @spj_tweets and @ravisomaiya
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 …
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 …
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 …
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@walkerbragman, @theintercept, @theintercept, @benspielberg and The Atlantic