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1:40 AM ET, March 26, 2019

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: following Apple announcement, WSJ EIC Matt Murray says the paper will be hiring dozens of staff and names Jennifer Hicks as Editor of News Partnerships  —  Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray sent out the following announcement on Monday:
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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.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Apple News+ is a fine way to read magazines, but its UX's roots in Texture makes finding content from newspapers and digital news outlets difficult  —  Few entities have the potential to help improve news production and consumption more than Apple.  This falls short of hopes.
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Apple announces Apple TV+, its new ad-free streaming service with original content from Spielberg, JJ Abrams, and others, coming to 100+ countries in the fall
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
A list of the 241 magazines that are currently available for Apple News+ in the US; 116 use the new Apple News Format, while 125 use traditional PDFs
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media's coverage of the Trump team's Russia connections has not been invalidated by the Mueller report, but news publishers may mistakenly soften coverage  —  It should be no surprise to anyone that President Trump's reaction to the Mueller report is to attack reporters for doing their jobs.
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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 …
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Medium's deputy editor Katie Drummond is leaving the site after less than a year to join Vice as senior vice-president of digital  —  Katie Drummond, who has worked as an editor in digital media and publishing for a decade, joined Vice Media as senior vice president of Vice Digital.
Discussion: TVNewser
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The history of Medium, told through a timeline of tweets, articles, and Ev Williams' own statements on the site  —  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  Fool me seven times, well...how much money do you have, again?  —  Less than a year after Medium abruptly canceled …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google denies report that YouTube has stopped accepting pitches for scripted shows, confirms it's debuting new ad-supported original programming in coming weeks  —  On the heels of Apple announcing paid, monthly subscription services for video, games, and news, YouTube says it is also doubling down original video content.
The Marshall Project:
Former NYT editor Susan Chira has been named editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, replacing founding editor Bill Keller who is retiring in April  —  Susan Chira, whose decorated four-decade career at The New York Times included stints as deputy executive editor, foreign editor …
Discussion: @susanchira
 
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