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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.
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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.
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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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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 …
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@sherman4949, @ifortknox and Reuters
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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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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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.