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Sarah Repucci / Freedom House:
In some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist leaders have overseen concerted attempts to throttle the independence of the media sector — Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral Key Findings … DOWNLOAD DATA SET — The fundamental right to seek …
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
Quibi to launch on April 6 2020 with a $7.99/mo ad free tier and a $4.99/mo tier with pre-roll ads, will pay costs plus 20% for up to $6M/hour to show creators — Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman offered an in-depth look at their new short-form video service during …
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
News Media Alliance study, to be given to US House ahead of hearings, claims Google made $4.7B from the work of news publishers in 2018 via search, Google News — $4,700,000,000. — It's more than the combined ticket sales of the last two “Avengers” movies. It's more than what virtually any professional sports team is worth.
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe — Over years of reporting on internet culture, I've heard countless versions of Mr. Cain's story: an aimless young man — usually white …
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Murtaza Hussain / The Intercept:
Heshmat Alavi, who published anti-Iran articles in Forbes, The Hill, and others, may be a persona created by an Iranian opposition group to shape US discourse — In 2018, President Donald Trump was seeking to jettison the landmark nuclear deal that his predecessor had signed with Iran in 2015 …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
The top of Esquire's masthead along with several writers have either resigned or been laid off after EIC Jay Fielden's resignation last week — There is chaos at Esquire, as the entire top of the masthead has either resigned or been let go following the resignation of Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden last week.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Inside John Stankey's first year as WarnerMedia CEO, as he envisions 70M subscribers for its streaming service, that sources say could merge with DirecTV Now — KEY POINTS — AT&T pays more than $100 billion for Time Warner, leaving it with a debt load that one analyst describes as “terrifying.”
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Tiffany Stevens / Columbia Journalism Review:
Independent journalists in Maryland are challenging the state's ban on broadcasting publicly available court recordings, arguing it violates the First Amendment — For Baltimore-based independent journalist Amelia McDonell-Parry, the Baltimore City courtroom audio captured during Keith Davis …
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Mark Jacob / Nieman Lab:
Study: the total average daily hours spent by desktop visitors to sites across all forms of digital media grew from 2.7 hours in 2008 to 5.9 in 2017 — Here's a question for local news producers: What are your readers doing when they're not visiting you? — That's the question asked …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The New York Times is looking to expand The Daily's international audience, currently 20% of its listeners, with a weeklong series of European politics — The New York Times' news podcast “The Daily” is delving deeper into European politics with a weeklong series to help grow its global audience.
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Source: Channel 4's relocation from London to Leeds, involving moving 300 staff, is expected to cost £50M and result in 80% of some departments leaving — Generous redundancy payments pushing cost of moving HQ from London above £50m — Channel 4's move out of London will cost …
Sam Thielman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Raphael Satter, an AP reporter who covers cybersecurity and high-tech espionage, on including interesting characters in potentially dry tech stories — Raphael Satter's beat at the Associated Press covers straightforward crime reporting and high-tech espionage, with a special fondness for people who are bad at their jobs.
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