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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 …
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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@rubinafillion, Radio & Television …, The Drum, @marklittlenews, Adweek, @jackshafer, Marketing Dive, Boing Boing, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Fortune, ZDNet and Vox
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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@samthielman, @jaredlholt, @gitagovinda, @heidi_cuda, @adamserwer, @jaredlholt, @samthielman, @samthielman, @gitagovinda, @samthielman and @samthielman
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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@emilyctamkin
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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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Columbia Journalism Review, @meredithshiner, Washingtonian, @gabrielsnyder, @jcstearns, @merrillbro, @kylepope, kottke.org, @kylepope, @moorehn, @kylepope, @kylepope, @vinodjose, bookforum.com, @nikkiusher, @mantzarlis, @digiphile, @mariabustillos, @dceiver, @emilyctamkin and @robinhenig
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Rachel Maddow will be a co-moderator for the first primary debate, unusual for an opinion journalist especially given the DNC's decision to bar Fox from hosting — The first debate of the Democratic presidential primary will be moderated by the news anchors Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt …
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@scotbertram, @grynbaum, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone, @daviduberti, @jayrosen_nyu, NBC News, Newser and Fox News
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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@billbrowder, BBC, The Guardian and The Moscow Times
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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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USA Today, UPI, BBC, @maryilyushina, @maryilyushina, @maryilyushina, @meduza_en, @kevinrothrock, @meduza_en, @meduza_en, @dailysabah, @natashafatah, @ctvnews, @nat_telepneva, @mbk_center, @tessaszy, @bbcstever, @miriamelder, Press Gazette, Newser, CNN, The Moscow Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Guardian and The Independent
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 »
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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Gizmodo, Associated Press, @noahshachtman and @justinjm1
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.
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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@ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman and The A.V. Club, more at Techmeme »
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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Variety, @shantecosme and @shantecosme
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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Press Gazette and @senseaboutsci
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