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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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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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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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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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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
By broadcasting Russian disinformation about Syria's White Helmets, OANN “source launders” it by making it seem like it doesn't originate from a single source — One America News Network has no qualms with playing the mouthpiece for Kremlin-hatched conspiracy theories.
Oliver Burkeman / The Guardian:
A critical examination of social media's role in driving the online news economy and how that is harming democratic politics as well as people's well-being — Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?
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Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Interview with Dan Rather on the state of TV news, his news diet, time at CBS News and relationship with Les Moonves, Trump's war on the press, and more — Ask Dan Rather for his reaction to the Mueller Report and he does not hold back. “What's revealed is absolutely damning,” …
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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