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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
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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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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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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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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 …
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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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Profile of Emily Maitlis, who has been formally named as the lead presenter of the BBC's Newsnight after more than a decade on the show — Newsnight's new lead presenter is described as super-smart with a determination to be distinctive — When Daniel Craig's James Bond sat down at the bar …
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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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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