Mediagazer: Internal email: News Corp says it has passed 500K paid digital subscribers in Australia, eight years after it launched a paywall for The Australian (Paul Wallbank/Mumbrella)

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Damian Carrington / The Guardian:

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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

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Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:

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Tom Maxwell / Digiday:

9to5, the network of sites including 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, DroneDJ, and Electrek, now averages 40M monthly views, employs 20 full time staff, and is profitable — In an effort to go beyond Apple news and scoops, 9to5 is making a play into other verticals. — 9to5, the network of news sites …

Sahil Patel / Digiday:

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Paul Wallbank / Mumbrella:

Internal email: News Corp says it has passed 500K paid digital subscribers in Australia, eight years after it launched a paywall for The Australian — News Corp says it has passed the 500,000 paid digital subscribers milestone in Australia. — News Corp Australia's executive chairman …

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Knight Foundation:

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Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:

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Ashley Carman / The Verge:

Spotify starts testing Car Thing, a voice-controlled smart assistant device for cars, with some Premium users in US — To learn how people consume audio in their car — Spotify will begin publicly testing its first hardware today: a voice-controlled smart assistant for cars …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Winning bidders for Salon Media are Chris Richmond and Drew Schoentrup, owners of Proper Media, which is involved in an ownership stakes dispute in Snopes — Salon Media Group is being acquired for $5 million by a little-known pair of tech entrepreneurs who are meanwhile caught in a legal battle …

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Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:

Q&A with sportswriter Jackie MacMullan on covering the NBA as a woman, social media, and how relationships between journalists and players have changed — When Jackie MacMullan joined the Boston Globe as an intern in the news department, in 1982, the N.B.A. was just beginning its ascent …

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