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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.
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.
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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Ernst Pfauth / The Correspondent:
De Correspondent has closed its US office and says it will not open a newsroom in the US, 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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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.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Pew Survey: 71% of Americans believe their local news outlets are doing “very or somewhat well financially”, only 14% have paid or given money to local news — Inside the news industry and Nieman Lab World, the fate of local news stands out as a particularly scary problem.
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Pew Research Center, Poynter and Broadcasting & Cable
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 …
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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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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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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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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@crownweather, Thanks:@michaelroston
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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