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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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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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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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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 …
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, @rasmus_kleis and @kathviner
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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Nishant Lalwani / The Guardian:
BBC Media Action and Pierre Omidyar's Luminate to call for a $1B/year “International Fund for Public Interest Media” at next week's conference on media freedom — Journalists risk everything to hold power to account, crucial work for which a $1bn global fund should be established
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@jamesmdeane, @journalismfest, @sdp, luminategroup.com and @tallgeekychap, Thanks:@sdp
Doha Chams / Medium:
A look at the money and people behind The Independent Arabia, licensed from the UK British daily to Saudi billionaire Soltan Mohamed Abuljadayel — “Comment: Far from producing high quality, rigorous professional journalism, ‘The Independent Arabia’ is a propaganda tool of the Saudi regime …
New York Times:
In Q&A with readers, Maggie Haberman says she's no longer writing a book on Trump, discusses protecting sources and how Twitter homogenizes information — Our White House correspondent Maggie Haberman is one of The Times's most prominent and prolific reporters.
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John McCarthy / The Drum:
Ofcom report: UK commercial TV and radio revenues stayed flat at £11.3B and £572M, respectively, but revenue sources shifted to make up for falling ad revenue — The fortunes of UK TV and radio broadcasters have remained stable in the last year despite continued general declines in the ad market, according to Ofcom data.
Noam Cohen / New Yorker:
A California law went into effect July 1 banning bots from pretending to be real people, without disclosure, while selling products or influencing votes — When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human …
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