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10:30 AM ET, April 14, 2019

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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
Frame is a newly launched digital news weekly 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 …
Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
Pew poll: 62% of urban residents say their local news media mainly cover their area; 57% of rural residents say their local media mostly cover some other area  —  Americans in urban communities are more likely to say local news media mostly cover the area where they live …
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Whereby.Us, a network of five local news sites, curbs its 25-city expansion as it deepens community ties through a $10/month, experience-focused memberships  —  “I would love to be in 25 cities and I wish we could've lived up to that.  The financial reality and the operational reality of it was not quite ready for that."
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will not be nominated for re-election to Facebook's board, where he has served since 2011  —  - Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will not be nominated for re-election at the company's 2019 annual stockholders meetings, Facebook said on Friday.
Dave McNary / Variety:
Talks fail between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents; WGA members told to fire agencies that haven't signed its Code of Conduct  —  Leaders of the Writers Guild of America have told their 15,000 members to fire their agents.  —  Members began sending …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Assange is hard to defend, but prosecuting him would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations  —  For press-freedom advocates, Julian Assange has long been a polarizing figure.  —  And his arrest Thursday in London once again ignited the seemingly endless debate:
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 …
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Interview with Nancy Pelosi on online privacy, net neutrality, big tech companies and hate speech and antitrust law, and the media response to Trump's tweets  —  “He's just being a freak.”  —  Enough people use Twitter to get their information that politicians have to be there, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says.
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’
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.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
HQ Trivia confirms Scott Rogowsky, its primetime host who had become the de facto face of the company, has left and will be replaced by Matt Richards  —  Quiz Khalifa aka Host Malone aka Trap Trebek aka HQ Trivia's Scott Rogowsky has been pushed out of the live mobile gaming startup.
 
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