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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Apple launches Apple News+ in US and Canada, a subscription service with news pubs like WSJ and 300+ mags, for $9.99/month and free sharing with family accounts — Apple unveiled a news subscription service called Apple News+ at its services event in Cupertino, Calif. Monday.
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Apple:
Livestream for Apple's “It's show time” event where the company is expected to unveil its new TV and news services — Apple Special Event. March 25, 2019. From the Steve Jobs Theater, Cupertino, CA.
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The Verge:
Live blog: Apple's ‘show time’ TV and news services event — Apple is expected to announce a TV service, TV shows, and an Apple News subscription plan — Apple is all set to announce a huge slate of TV shows, a new video service to go along with them, and even a new subscription service for Apple News.
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Digiday, CNBC, TechCrunch, Mashable, Rolling Stone, @sewellchan, @arashmarkazi, @laura_nelson and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple announces Apple TV Channels, an on-demand, ad-free TV service with offline viewing in a new Apple TV app, coming in May to Mac, smart TVs, Roku, Fire TV — After years of speculation and on-again, off-again rumors, Apple has finally unveiled its biggest push into streaming video.
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CNN:
Sources: Trump's team plans to “slam and shame the media” over Mueller coverage, with the RNC and Fox News talk show hosts already launching attacks — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
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Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside the Justice Department's press room on Friday, as reporters on the justice beat awaited the Mueller Report — When Sadie Gurman, a Justice Department correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, woke up on Friday, she had a nervous energy. Like many journalists …
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The Atlantic, Politico, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, @smmarotta, @andrewmccormck, The Week, @eorden, @rschooley and @adriennelaf
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
News networks interrupted their regular programming and reorganized their schedules to deliver coverage on the Mueller Report on Sunday — The “Mueller Report” has prompted a bevy of new reports from the nation's big TV-news outlets. — CBS News plotted a Monday primetime special to cover …
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Fortune, Mediaite, TVNewser, The Daily Beast, Broadcasting & Cable, New York Times and TV Tattle
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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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 …
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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
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@spj_tweets, @amlwhere, @andreasharsono, @markhannamedia, @greenhousenyt and @jamieson
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.
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New York Times, @spytalker, @jkbjournalist, @sheeraf, @bentaub91, @tom_winter, @nabeelazahir, @eenaruffini, @bencnn, @noenicholas, @tom_winter, @hradzka, @mosheh, @alansipress, The Daily Beast, Newser, Associated Press, The Wrap and Deadline
Robert Peck / Wired:
A moderator for the /r/aww, a cute animal subreddit with 19M subscribers, details his processes for identifying and banning bots, trolls, and propagandists — THESE ARE THE rules: Users of /r/aww aren't allowed to post about dogs that are dying, or sick, or just back from the vet.
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