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Peter Kafka / Recode:
A year after his announcement that Facebook would feature less news, Zuckerberg says he wants to create a tab to surface quality news, could pay publishers — The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
One week with Apple News+: it is great value for those who enjoy reading magazines but its design and news delivery mechanisms are messy and inconsistent — There's a lot to evaluate about Apple's new News Plus subscription service, including if it's a good deal for the media business …
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@davechensky, @dcseifert and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
By joining Apple News+, the US magazine industry could lose 50% of its revenue per reader, with ARPU dropping from $120 per year per reader to $59 — Apple digital kiosk is a terrible deal for the news industry. No wonder most newspaper publishers won't join. 1 . The math, from the industry perspective
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Media Nation, @jackshafer, @benmullin, @hbsmktg, @raju and @sarahmarshall
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Months before The New Yorker published allegations of sexual harassment against CBS News' Jeff Fager, the Washington Post had the story but didn't publish it — The afternoon of March 7, 2018, was go time, or so we believed. Inside a glass huddle room at the Washington Post …
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Willa Paskin / Slate:
While Sean Hannity promotes “deranged” factual interpretations on Fox News, Rachel Maddow's show also indulges in conspiracy theories around Mueller and Trump — I tuned in to Maddow's show after the Mueller investigation ended. It has not been pretty.
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New York Post, @bigmeaninternet, @ggreenwald, @greta, @greta, @greta, @greta, @ggreenwald, @scottadamssays and @greta
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times says it has reached 1M paying readers, with digital subscriptions accounting for 75%+ of its circulation — The Financial Times has reached a paying readership of 1m in a new record for the newsbrand that it says has come a year ahead of schedule and on the back of a “strong business performance”.
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Talking Biz News, @mattbrittin, @emilybell, @ferdigiugliano and @chloencornish
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Q&A with Poynter president Neil Brown on coverage of the Mueller report and triteness of the idea that the report should prompt a reckoning in the media — The Russian investigation is over. Robert Mueller's report has been turned in. And now we begin another investigation: How did the media do in covering this story?
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New Yorker, @williams_paige, @michaelluo, @adamplayford and @poynter
Ad Age:
ComScore's CEO Bryan Wiener and President Sarah Hofstetter step down after less than a year in those positions, citing differences with the company's board — CEO Bryan Wiener and President Sarah Hofstetter will depart — ComScore's top two executives have abruptly left the company …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Critics comparing Mueller coverage to that of the Iraq war have based their argument on cherry-picked examples and a false assumption about the Steele dossier — Barr gave Trump and media critics a fresh rallying cry. And the Steele dossier is back in vogue. Does anybody really know what's going on here?
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Nieman Reports, @timobrien, @timobrien, @timobrien, @sulliview, @grahamdavida, @timobrien and NBC News
Reuters:
Sources: as part of UAE's Project Raven, 9+ ex-NSA staffers helped hack phones of Al Jazeera's Chairman, a BBC Arabic host, and other journalists — A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host …
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@specialreports, @bing_chris, @bing_chris, @w7voa, @tomgara and Law & Crime, more at Techmeme »
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The BBC is taking over broadcaster UKTV in a ~£200M deal and licensing its natural history and wildlife shows to Discovery for its new global streaming service — Corporation will also license natural history shows such as Blue Planet to US pay-TV giant
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Multichannel News, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, @samuelbailey and @jimwaterson
Michael Moritz / Financial Times:
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's national newspaper which once struggled to make money, went from 2K digital subscriptions in 2015 to 160K in 2019 and is now profitable — Apple recently grabbed attention with the launch of its revamped news and information service, but the real story about the resurgence …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Four years after the “Blurred Lines” case, IP lawyers and music execs say there has been a rise in copyright claims, creating a chilling effect on songwriters — It's not easy to be a songwriter in the pop world these days. Listeners rarely see your name.
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