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12:05 PM ET, March 25, 2019

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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.
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
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, three people familiar with the situation say.  — The digital media business has been rife with speculation about mergers between venture-funded digital media outlets …
Discussion: Tubefilter, @lmoses and @mdudas
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
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
A driver working with NBC News in Syria was killed Saturday after a device exploded close to a group of the network's journalists  —  “We are thankful that NBC employees escaped unharmed, however one of the local drivers working with them was tragically killed," Noah Oppenheim said.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Profile of Emily Maitlis, who has been formally named as the lead presenter of the BBC's Newsnight after more than a decade on the show  —  Newsnight's new lead presenter is described as super-smart with a determination to be distinctive  —  When Daniel Craig's James Bond sat down at the bar …
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
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 and @poynter
 
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