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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Robert Pear, longtime New York Times reporter who covered Washington with a focus on health care policy for 45 years, dies at 69 — An understated but tenacious journalist who mastered national health care issues with reporting that became a must-read in the capital and beyond.
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Tony Semerad / Salt Lake Tribune:
The owner of The Salt Lake Tribune is pursuing IRS approval to change the newspaper to a nonprofit, likely forcing an end to its endorsements of candidates — After years of heavy financial losses, The Salt Lake Tribune is pursuing federal approval to become a nonprofit operation sustained by donations large and small.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Google's paid music services, YouTube Music and Google Play Music, have passed 15M subscribers, far behind Apple's 50M+ and Spotify's 100M+ — - Figure includes users of YouTube Music and Google Play Music — Google's paid music services have eclipsed 15 million subscribers …
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Wall Street Journal, The Verge and hypebot, more at Techmeme »
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Disney beats Q2 estimates with $14.92B revenue, up 3% YoY, vs. $14.36B est.; revenue from media networks was $5.53B, down from $5.92B the previous quarter — - Disney has made strides in its direct-to-consumer business through its unveiling of Disney+ and a 60% stake in Hulu.
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FierceVideo, @eriqgardner, The Walt Disney Company and The Verge
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches its evidence-based Parenting vertical in beta as a mobile-optimized responsive site, building toward being a subscription product — Over about five years, The New York Times developed its Cooking product from a bunch of unmonetized recipes floating around its website …
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@feedkastcharles and New York Times
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Sinclair Broadcast Group reports Q1 revenue of $722M, up 8.5% compared to the prior year, but income was down 12.1% YoY to $93.6M — Revenue rises 8.5%, but tougher comps meant lower profits in period — Revenue increased 8.5% at Sinclair Broadcast Group in Q1, but tougher comparisons …
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MediaPost, sbgi.net, Broadcasting & Cable and Radio & Television …
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
A look at the effectiveness of Squash, software from Bill Adair's Reporters' Lab at Duke University, designed to automate fact-checking during live events — Even robots are trying to hold Donald Trump accountable. — it's february 2019, and I'm waiting to see whether a robot will call the president of the United States a liar.
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@theatlantic, @dukeu and @adriennelaf
Andrew Dalton / Associated Press:
Court TV, dismantled by Time Warner in 2008, is reborn under Katz Networks; the channel will air trials virtually in their entirety and discuss all things legal — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Court TV is ending its long recess. — The channel for legal junkies that thrived during the trial-crazy 1990s comes …
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Orlando Sentinel, @courttv and TVNewser
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Times-Picayune's demise began when its owner adopted an abrupt digital-first strategy, reducing delivery to just 3 days per week, and slashing newsroom staff — The day of the New Orleans Saints home opener in 2013, fans arrived at the Superdome to find a special edition of the Advocate draped over every seat.
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@mlcalderone, @bgrueskin, @sulliview, @dicktofel, @johnmcquaid, @bgrueskin, @tmorris504, @jswatz, @donlday, @jsilverpg and @kenwardjr
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
How Washington Post Fact Checker's tally of Trump falsehoods turned from a 100-day project into an invaluable resource recording 10K+ lies in less than 3 years — In early June, Glenn Kessler had documented 3,251 falsehoods from President Donald Trump. He said the count might reach 10,000 by the end of his term in 2021.
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Strange Attractor, @dpfunke and @niemanlab
Kaya Yurieff / CNN:
Two months after Facebook said it would curb vaccine misinformation, anti-vaccination posts and a #vaccineskill tag still appear prominently in Instagram search — New York (CNN Business)Two months after Facebook pledged to fight vaccine misinformation on its platforms …
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@broderick, @donie, @kevinroose, @carlzimmer and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
Mark I. Pinsky / Poynter:
An examination of the role white-owned southern newspapers played in segregation and racial violence, and the belated apologies some have offered — In January, the Orlando Sentinel posted an impassioned apology for inflaming racial tensions decades ago in a 1949 case called “The Groveland Four.”
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@itsren, @wesleylowery, @oliviacpaschal, @emarvelous, @mthomps, Poynter, @roypeterclark, @will_doran, @roypeterclark, Poynter, @kellymcb, Poynter and @mel_grau
Todd Gitlin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists still have failed to reckon with shortcomings of their 2016 campaign coverage, which gave policy much less space than the horse race — No sooner had newsrooms shaken their election night astonishment and called the 2016 election for Donald Trump than a journalistic consensus crystallized …
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@jayrosen_nyu, Politico and @bilbocroft
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