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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.
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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.
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple News+ will surface WSJ stories of general interest; subscribers will have access to 3 days worth of business and financial news in WSJ's archives — Apple News+ was officially announced earlier today, allowing users to pay $9.99 per month for access to 300 magazines and select newspapers.
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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
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
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Apple shared surprisingly few details about TV+, with no price or launch date info, and little to show for its original content aside from bland announcements
Apple shared surprisingly few details about TV+, with no price or launch date info, and little to show for its original content aside from bland announcements
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 …
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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
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
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
News networks interrupted their regular programming and reorganized their schedules to deliver coverage on the Mueller Report on Sunday
News networks interrupted their regular programming and reorganized their schedules to deliver coverage on the Mueller Report on Sunday
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
News outlets covering Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are experiencing something similar to the “Trump Bump”, as she attracts TV ratings and web clicks — Shortly after U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez schooled witnesses in a Congressional hearing on campaign-finance laws, the editors at NowThis sprang into action.
Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the US-funded Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, for which 700 reporters sometimes risk death to chronicle war and politics globally — In Ukraine, separatists are holding Stanislav Aseyev, a reporter from the Donbas region, on the eastern border with Russia.
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Business Insider's 13 international editions grew their ad revenue 40% YoY in 2019 and now generate 30% of its ad revenue outside the US — While many digital media publishers have been forced to pare down their international expansion strategies, Business Insider is moving full steam ahead.
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