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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Survey finds 16% of US respondents pay for news, and 11% on average in nine other countries, but most people who do pay for news only have one subscription — Publishers worldwide are installing paywalls, but many — even most — won't succeed. Private WhatsApp groups are becoming the default …
Emily Tamkin / Columbia Journalism Review:
CJR's public editor for CNN questions the value of evasive TV guests who repeat Trump points, but have no responsibility for policy or any particular expertise — In March, as Chris Cuomo made the toss from his primetime show to Don Lemon's CNN Tonight, Cuomo reflected on an interview with Kellyanne Conway …
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Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
In the US, NPR is the only major media outlet with a full-time public editor; CJR announces appointment of four public editors for NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, and CNN
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Ben Miller / New York Business Journal:
Media network TheMaven agrees to pay $16.5M to acquire financial news site TheStreet, which was founded in 1996 by CNBC host Jim Cramer — Financial information company TheStreet Inc. said it's been purchased for $16.5 million. New York-based TheStreet (Nasdaq: TST) said the purchaser is TheMaven Inc. …
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Jared Holt / Columbia Journalism Review:
How sites including RedState and Breitbart amplified unsupported claims of nefarious ties between antifascists and reporters who cover the far-right — Last month, a number of media outlets ran stories touting claims from a study posted on Twitter that alleged nefarious connections between …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Meeker's chart on time spent and ad spend across media segments shows print took 7% of spending in 2018 and just 3% of attention, implying it will fall further — It's an annual moment of print realism here at Nieman Lab: the posting of the attention/advertising slide from Mary Meeker's state-of-the-Internet slide deck.
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Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Bustle Digital Group hires former Complex Media exec editor Shanté Cosme as Mic's exec editor to lead a relaunch with more coverage of politics and culture — Including an expanded branded content studio and several new staffers — After a rocky period that left dozens …
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The Charlotte Observer:
Frank Barrows, who worked for more than 30 years at The Charlotte Observer as a sports reporter, writer, and managing editor, died Wednesday at 72 — Frank Barrows, a beloved former managing editor of the Charlotte Observer whose journalism career took him from sports writing to leading …
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify launches a new US playlist, Your Daily Drive, updating throughout the day with music and news clips from the WSJ, NPR, and Public Radio International — All it's missing is weather and traffic — Spotify's launching a new playlist called Your Daily Drive that will incorporate news podcasts.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Independent and Evening Standard lose a long-running libel case as UK's supreme court sets a precedent that claimants must show “serious harm” — Judgment in Bruno Lachaux case establishes ‘serious harm’ to reputation must be proved — The Independent and the Evening Standard …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
A federal judge has awarded radio host Dean Obeidallah $4.1M in a defamation lawsuit against Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin — Dean Obeidallah was falsely accused of being behind a terrorist attack by The Daily Stormer, whose on-the-run founder just lost big in court.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Adjust, which provides mobile ad measurement and fraud prevention tools, raises $227M, bringing its total funding to $250M — Adjust, a leader in mobile measurement and fraud prevention, said it has raised $227 million in a new round of funding. — The round was led by investors Eurazeo Growth …
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TechCrunch, AdExchanger and @adjustcom, more at Techmeme »
Reuters:
Russian police detain 400+ at a protest calling for punishment of police officers involved in Ivan Golunov's alleged framing, a day after charges were dropped — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained more than 400 people, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny …
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Russia's Internal Ministry releases Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov, citing a lack of evidence of a crime and vowing a probe into the officers who detained him
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Ashley Rodriguez / Business Insider:
After report that shrinking satellite TV giants Dish and DirecTV are open to merging, analysts say regulators may allow it in this competitive video environment — - Major US satellite-TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network are open to a merger, according to Bloomberg.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
PBS CEO says restrictions Apple is placing on third-party analytics for kids' apps will prevent PBS from tracking whether content and game features are working — Onstage at Code Conference 2019, PBS' CEO expressed concerns about a change Apple recently made to kids apps in its App Store.
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