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Laura Waxmann / The San Francisco Examiner:
Police and FBI raided the home and office of journalist Bryan Carmody, handcuffing him, in a probe into a leaked police report about a public defender's death — Police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist Friday morning. — Police raided the home and office …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
New media ventures like Vox are struggling while old media, like NYT, is flourishing because the only disruption in media happened in distribution, not content — KEY POINTS — Old media companies such as Disney and The New York Times have flourished in recent years while new media ventures …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
A profile of the nearly century old family-owned daily The Commercial Dispatch of Columbus, MS, which now has 12 editorial staff and a paid circulation of ~13K — As mentioned in the kickoff post in this new “Our Towns” series, anyone who cares about America's civic, cultural …
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
In an era of information warfare, few newsrooms are prepared to train their reporters on how to keep themselves and their sources safe in cyberspace — In 1970, the Canadian cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan famously predicted that World War III, when it comes, will be …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
The town of Longmont, CO, is debating whether to add a tax to fund a public library that might include an editorially independent local newsroom — A late-night debate in a sparsely attended city council chamber in Colorado on Tuesday opened a new front in the national conversation about how to sustain local news.
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Parker Molloy / Columbia Journalism Review:
Media treatment of intersex and transgender athletes primes readers to think their wins are unjust by often conflating the two and framing them as unbeatable — South African track and field superstar Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion in the women's 800-meter.
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@parkermolloy, @cjr, @parkermolloy and Media Matters for America
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
As movie and TV adaptations fueled an $80M YoY growth in comic book sales in 2018, smaller comic book publishers are adopting new business strategies to compete — A merger of two independents, Lion Forge and Oni Press, is the latest example of new strategies that are shaping the business.
Discussion:
@spookychan, @georgegustines and @nytimes
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Q&A with Katherine Pope, head of Charter Communications' new original content division, on plans for Spectrum Originals as its first scripted series debuts — A year ago, Charter Communications' new original content division headed by Katherine Pope made its first major programming move …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Cleveland.com tests a $3.99/mo service that gives readers direct texts from reporters; ~1,200 people signed up for a free trial, and a “few hundred” are paying — “Never too early for this game: How many NFL Draft picks will Ohio State have next season?
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Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
International correspondents in Venezuela say that the only way to cover the country is to be on the ground as polarization makes local experts unreliable — Last Tuesday, in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader in the country, called for a military uprising …
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Roku says it doesn't have any plans to create its own content for its free ad-supported network, The Roku Channel — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links. — After reaching 10,000 free ad-supported movies and TV episodes …
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TechCrunch, Awful Announcing, The Streamable and The Wrap, Thanks:@thestreamable
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Pew survey finds that 78% of Americans have never spoken with a local journalist; those who have are likelier to be older, college-educated, and white — Seventy-eight percent of Americans have never spoken with a local journalist at all, according to data highlighted by Pew on Friday …
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