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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Blocking social networks after terrorist attacks can do more harm than good, especially in places like Sri Lanka where official sources are often unreliable — We should be suspicious when governments crack down on speech in the name of safety — Imagine for a moment that you run …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Luminary, the subscription-based podcast app backed by $100M in venture capital, debuts Tuesday without The New York Times' The Daily or shows from Gimlet Media — It took less than a day for Luminary to become enemy number one of the podcast industry. Last month, on the same day that it unveiled …
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Connla Young / The Irish News:
Paramilitary group the New IRA admits responsibility for the murder of Lyra McKee, says she was killed during the course of “attacking the enemy” — THE paramilitary group blamed for shooting dead Lyra McKee in Derry last night apologised for the murder of the 29-year-old journalist.
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Reuters:
Myanmar's top court rejects final appeal by jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who are sentenced to seven years in jail — Shoon Naing, Simon Lewis — NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's top court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years …
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Saving journalism's soul amidst Trump's war on the press requires acknowledging that the press is indeed at war to protect truth and democracy itself — Columnist's note: This is an excerpt from a speech delivered last Thursday at the the Drexel Writing Festival. You can read the entire speech here.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Civilization is accelerating toward disaster, but US media remains complacent in its coverage on climate change, letting politicians and companies avoid action — This article is being jointly published with The Nation, CJR's partner in a April 30 conference aimed at reframing the way journalists cover climate change.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Convergence Research Group report: pay TV industry will see a 5% drop in subscribers in 2019, up from 4% in 2018 when around 4.01M US subs quit their TV service — The pace of cord cutting is continuing to accelerate this year, according to a new Convergence Research Group report …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Seattle Times, working with the Seattle Foundation, is looking to crowdfund $500K from small donors to beef up its investigative team — Nonprofit news donorship has taken off, with more than 50,000 new donors giving in a 2018 end-of-year fundraising campaign alone.
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Fox Business:
Sources: Sinclair Broadcasting appears to have won the auction for Fox's regional sports networks with a ~$10B bid; Disney originally sought as much as $20B — Sinclair Broadcasting appears to have emerged as the leading candidate to win the auction of the 21st Century Fox's Regional Sports Networks …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Student journalists from a Lexington, KY high school were turned away from a Betsy DeVos “open press event”, and turned their experience into an editorial — The students were on deadline, and they were on a mission. — They piled into a car last Wednesday and pulled away …
Ainsley Harris / Fast Company:
Bob Iger's 2018 pay was $65.6M, or 1,424X the median Disney salary, says study; Disney co-founder's granddaughter Abigail Disney says that pay level is “insane” — In 2018, Disney CEO Bob Iger got a raise-a big raise. His total compensation increased 80% to hit $65.6 million.
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: Complex Networks, a video-driven but diversified media firm focused on sneakers and youth culture, expects $200M in revenue, $30M in profit this year — - Complex Networks, the sneaker-culture-focused media company, is an exception to the gloom and doom surrounding digital media.
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