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Visualizations show the stark divide between a handful of national newspapers that have managed to make the digital transition, and the struggling local outlets — After suffering a historic meltdown a decade ago in the financial crisis, American newspapers began racing to transform into digital businesses …
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CNN:
After Facebook bans seven extremists, Trump, in a series of tweets, complains about the ban, retweeting extremists' tweets, and issuing vague threats — New York (CNN)Facebook barred seven users from its services earlier this week, citing its policies against “dangerous individuals and organizations.”
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Facebook could have limited the reach of Alex Jones and other “dangerous” figures without outright bans, which erode the US' strong free speech traditions — Free speech took a whacking Thursday as Facebook cited its policies against “dangerous individuals and organizations” …
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Zosha Millman / SeattlePI:
Journalist says Seattle Times reporter Mike Rosenberg sent her sexually harassing Twitter DMs, and the paper says it's suspended him amid its own investigation — Seattle Times journalist Mike Rosenberg has deactivated his Twitter account after another journalist accused him of sending sexually explicit and harassing messages.
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Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
A freelance writer details how journalism's use of part-time freelancers has hurt the industry, making corporate writing the only refuge for a steady income — In 2009, in the paranoid middle days of the recession, I enacted a boomerang-child stereotype: I moved back home into my parents' basement.
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Rose Eveleth / Nieman Reports:
As the journalism workforce adds more freelancers, journalism award administrators should rethink their rules and high entry fees and offer a freelancer fund — As freelancers make up more and more of the workforce, award administrators should rethink their rules
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Rochelle Toplensky / Financial Times:
Sources: after considering Spotify's complaint about App Store fees, the EU has decided to launch an antitrust probe into Apple's conduct — The EU will launch a formal antitrust investigation into Apple in the next few weeks after Spotify accused the iPhone maker of “tilting the playing field to disadvantage competitors”.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Recently acquired Times-Picayune will lay off all of its 161 staff, including 65 reporters and editors, a notice filed with Louisiana Workforce Commission says — The Newhouse family sold the 182-year-old daily The Times-Picayune and its website, nola.com, to a scrappy New Orleans competitor, and the entire staff is being laid off.
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Nina Jankowicz / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Ukraine elected comedian Volodymyr Zelensky as president while TV viewers searched in vain for measured, fact-based news on oligarch-owned channels — On a recent spring evening in Kyiv, 22,000 people gathered under cotton-candy skies in the capitol city's Olympic Stadium. Millions more watched at home.
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Gary Vaynerchuk's Gallery Media Group says its revenue has grown 35% YoY to ~$36.5M since acquiring women's lifestyle publication PureWow in January 2017 — Given the publishing industry's recent struggles, a media company producing a Broadway musical in 2019 would seem to be a red flag …
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Swapna Krishna / 1Password Blog:
On World Press Freedom Day, 1Password promotes its free membership for journalists; the service includes Travel Mode, which protects data when crossing borders — It's not an easy time to be a journalist, which is why we want to recognize World Press Freedom Day.
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Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:
Media Matters study of 2,000 tweets by major news outlets shows they amplified false or misleading Trump claims 19 times/day on average, without disputing them — When a president speaks, what he says is, by journalistic norms, inherently newsworthy. But when a president lies—on social media …
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Danielle Chemtob / The Charlotte Observer:
After initial moments of fear following a campus shooting, college journalists at UNC Charlotte worked on telling the stories of their classmates and friends — When UNC Charlotte student Nikolai Mather first saw frantic messages about a shooting on campus Tuesday, he turned off his dorm room lights …
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