Mediagazer: Frame, a new digital news weekly, launches with a novel distribution strategy: delivering new stories to subscribers' Apple or Google calendars (Ren LaForme/Poynter)

5:25 PM ET, April 14, 2019

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Frame, a new digital news weekly, launches with a novel distribution strategy: delivering new stories to subscribers' Apple or Google calendars — There's an empty spot on millions of coffee tables where weekly news magazines once sat. They're not likely to make a resurgence in print …

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Twitter has withheld a tweet from TorrentFreak, at the request of Starz, pointing to a news story on recent major leaks of unreleased TV shows — At TorrentFreak, we have been covering copyright and piracy related news for well over a decade. — We write about things that copyright holders …

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Jessica Davies / Digiday:

Interview with European Commission's GDPR chief Giovanni Buttarelli on why Google and Facebook need to do more on GDPR compliance — It's been a year since the roll-out of the General Data Protection Regulation, yet big questions still linger around what the right consent strategy looks like …

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Lois Beckett / The Guardian:

Yemeni bodega owners' association representing 4K+ NYC bodegas announces a boycott of NY Post over its Thursday cover attacking Ilhan Omar for her 9/11 comments — Murdoch-owned paper published front page that Yemeni American Merchants Association says ‘provoked hatred’

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Joseph Lichterman / The Lenfest Institute …:

A deep look at The Tyler Loop, a nonprofit news startup in Texas run by Tasneem Raja and Christopher Groskopf, who formerly worked at national outlets — For two years, Tasneem Raja has been putting in the hard work of creating a new local news organization from scratch.

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