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Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun-Times:
The Chicago Defender, a 114-year-old African American paper, will stop publishing its print edition and become online-only starting July 11 — The storied African American newspaper will switch to a digital-only platform starting July 11. — The Chicago Defender, the storied African American newspaper …
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@sannewman, @profgabrielle, @lukeepplin, @jemsinger, @wendellpierce, @johnedwinmason, @brynstole and @rogersparkman
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Mozilla teases $5/month news subscription service offering ad-free browsing, audio readouts, cross-platform article syncing, in apparent partnership with Scroll — Mozilla has started teasing an ad-free news subscription service, which, for $5 per month, would offer ad-free browsing …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, @c_senst, @mkarolian, BetaNews and SlashGear
Priyanka Borpujari / Columbia Journalism Review:
Problems local reporters face when dealing with Western news orgs, who often see them merely as “fixers”, could be addressed by crediting them with a co-byline — In April, Neha Dixit, a journalist in India, received an email from a professor at Northwestern University.
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@mehreenzahra, @meghara, @francescam63 and @dickinsonbeth
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist made 59% of its £333.4M in revenue from subscriptions and circulation in 2018; in May, newsletter referral traffic overtook Twitter referrals — When it comes to content, The Economist takes the view that value trumps volume, a view that extends to its email newsletters.
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Talking Biz News
Mediapart:
Mediapart, a French investigative news site, to transfer its capital to a not-for-profit structure to ensure long-term editorial independence — On top of its successful journalistic venture, Mediapart has now come up with its own capitalist invention by placing 100% of its capital …
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@edwyplenel, @kathviner and @rasmus_kleis
Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez on the importance of having a hit podcast, international expansion, borrowing from the Hollywood production model, more — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 216, dated July 2, 2019. — Wondery raises $10 million in Series B funding.
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@niemanlab and @niemanlab
Elisa Shearer / Pew Research Center:
A look at the challenges underlying how the Pew Research Center has phrased questions about Americans' online news habits since 1999 — Elisa Shearer in Pew Research Center: Decoded — At Pew Research Center, we've been asking Americans about their online news habits since the mid-1990s.
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@johngramlich and @elisashearer
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A look at Telemundo's growth since NBCU acquired it in 2011, with more investment in journalism, sports, and edgier shows, as well as its rivalry with Univision — MIAMI — Twenty miles west of Miami's glittering oceanfront, closer to the Everglades than to the Fontainebleau hotel …
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@nytimesbusiness and @nytimesbusiness
Hollywood Reporter:
MAD Magazine will stop creating new content after issue 10, except for end-of-year specials, and shift to previously published material with new covers — The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will no longer feature …
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Hossein Derakhshan / The Guardian:
Public broadcast companies in the UK and Europe should join forces and resources to create a public social media platform to distribute their journalistic work — Public broadcast companies could join up to create a platform that values diversity and privacy unlike super-platforms such as Facebook
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@rasmus_kleis and @h0d3r
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
UK data protection issues guidance on use of cookies, banning “tracking walls” and implied consent for non-essential cookies, including ones for analytics — This week U.K data protection authority the Information Commissioner's Office issued a blunt reminder of how cookies …
Reuters:
French pay-TV channel Canal Plus to cut 500 jobs, or 18% of its workforce, through voluntary departures as it loses to competitors like Netflix and beIN Sports — PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi's pay-TV Canal Plus plans to cut 500 jobs in France, or nearly 18 percent of its staff in the country …
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