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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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Max Willens / Digiday:
Profile of Peter Stern, who has led business operations for Apple's services division, which now includes Apple TV+ and Apple News+, for the past year — Peter Stern joined Apple at a moment when its relationships with entertainment companies and publishers were at a low point.
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Digiday, @pkafka, Mumbrella, Editor & Publisher and 9to5Mac
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 — Earlier today, Apple launched Apple News+, a new subscription-based service to gain access to hundreds of magazines in the Apple News app for $9.99/month.
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Digiday, MacRumors and Ad Age, more at Techmeme »
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
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google is launching the Local Experiments Project to fund local news websites across the US, partners with McClatchy on three projects — Google is launching the Local Experiments Project, an effort to fund dozens of new local news websites around the country and eventually around the world.
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Nieman Lab, @bgrueskin, @sarafischer, Fortune, @pergam and Beyond Search
Ernst Pfauth / The Correspondent:
De Correspondent has closed its US office and says it has decided to base its core team in Amsterdam, as it prepares to launch an English-language version — At the end of last year, 45,888 people from over 130 countries contributed $2.6 million to launch The Correspondent, the global expansion of our Dutch journalism platform.
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@rafat, @ejpfauth, @chaykak, @ejpfauth and @rasmus_kleis
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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New York Times, The Wrap, The Guardian, Mediaite, @brianstelter, The Daily Caller, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, Politico, @sulliview, @brianstelter, CNN, The Atlantic, @jamilsmith, @poniewozik, @nycsouthpaw, The Week, @brianstelter, @joeconchatv, @ejdionne, @dfriedman33, @josephkahn, @anneapplebaum, The Federalist, @genepark, @zackbeauchamp and NBC News
James Cridland / Podnews podcasting news:
The BBC has pulled its podcasts from Google search, Assistant, and Podcasts, claiming Google must sign a license to link them and supply the BBC with user data — Some time on March 19th, the BBC started blocking all access to its podcasts on Google search, Google Assistant, and Google Podcasts.
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Nieman Lab, Voicebot, RadioToday, @jeffjarvis, @davewiner, Android Police and RAIN News
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
The founder and all-female editorial team of the Vatican's women's mag have resigned, citing a campaign to discredit them over a story on sexual abuse of nuns — Editorial board says Vatican tried to discredit them after they denounced abuse of nuns — The founder and all-female editorial board …
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@mathewi, @reisingerwagner, @raju and @vofwomen
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with Karey Burke, ABC's entertainment president, on reviving the network's ratings and trying to retain Jimmy Kimmel as his contract nears end — The network's entertainment president, who replaced Channing Dungey in November, has a plan not just to stem ratings declines but actually …
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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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Spotify has acquired Parcast, a podcasting studio which focuses on stories about true crime, cults, and unsolved mysteries — The podcast studio focuses on stories about true crimes, cults and unsolved mysteries. — Spotify is adding to its podcasting portfolio.
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Fast Company, Fortune and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Sky & Telescope, a hobbyist magazine for astronomers that is profitable and has 500K pageviews a month online, is being sold by its parent company — In the spring of 1976, nearly broke, struggling with a novel and having exhausted the patience of everyone around me …
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