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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.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
Apple is not submitting any entries to the Emmy Awards but will do so in 2020, with its first shot at awards season being the Golden Globes
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Quartz, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider, 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
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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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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.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google is launching the Local Experiments Project to fund dozens of new local news sites in the US, partners with McClatchy for three operations in three years — 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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The Keyword, Nieman Lab, @bgrueskin, @sarafischer, Adweek, Engadget, @businessofnews, @nathanblawrence, @pergam, @nicholasvinocur, @seandkennedy, @andreas212nyc, Fortune, @emilybell, @mathewi, @laurengustus, @alexkotch, 9to5Google, @emilybell, @mathewi, @aaronmehta, @trochee, @lam_barrett, @matthewstoller, @jayrosen_nyu and Beyond Search
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 …
James Vincent / The Verge:
European Parliament approves the Copyright Directive, a controversial law including Article 11, dubbed the “link tax” and Article 13, dubbed the “upload filter” — Article 11 and Article 13 both approved by European politicians — The European Union has given …
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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
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Univision and Dish Network reach a carriage deal after a nine-month blackout, covering Univision-owned TV stations and niche Spanish-language cable channels — Univision and satcaster Dish Network have reached a carriage agreement after a nine-month blackout that marked one of the longest standoffs between …
John Glenday / The Drum:
Survey: 63% of people now prefer to share content over “dark” social channels like Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, and WhatsApp — A study on social sharing habits has highlighted the growing appeal of so-called ‘dark’ private messaging apps, with 63% of people now preferring …
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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Polina Marinova / Fortune:
Stock trading startup Robinhood buys MarketSnacks, a media company with a podcast and a newsletter about finance that will be rebranded as Robinhood Snacks — Robinhood, a no-fee trading stock trading startup, just made its first acquisition, and it's a millennial-focused media company called MarketSnacks.
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Under the Hood, @robinhoodapp, @rachelking, @steevevakees, @buckeyebeachbum, Talking Biz News and MarketSnacks
Lautaro Grinspan / Washingtonian:
Foreign correspondents covering the US for publications globally indicate that international news outlets are also experiencing the “Trump bump” — Even for locals, Trump-era Washington is dizzying. Now imagine explaining it to the world. — Rozina Sabur
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