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Natalie Beach / The Cut:
The story of a ghostwriter for Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway, writing captions as real-time memoir, polishing book chapters, and imagining another life — The author (right) with Caroline Calloway Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Beach — When I was a sophomore in college …
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Profile of Dawn Ostroff, Spotify's chief content officer, as the company invests heavily in podcasts to gain an edge over rivals — When Dawn Ostroff began working the graveyard shift at a Miami radio station, her parents assumed her career in radio would be short-lived.
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Digiday, Nieman Lab, @rfaughnder, @eclaireoh, @rowanc and Hot Pod News
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Apple TV+ will launch on November 1 for $4.99/month in 100 countries; customers get one year free with the purchase of an Apple device — Back in March, Apple unveiled Apple TV+, a subscription television and film service featuring a slate of original content from Steven Spielberg …
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Adweek, The Wrap, Deadline, Apple, Deadline, Broadcasting & Cable, Vox, @laurengoode, @pkafka, @bzamayo, @neilcybart, @laurengoode, @lucas_shaw, The Streamable, Fortune, Ad Age, NPR, Fast Company, CNBC, Vanity Fair, Cult of Mac, The Verge, The Playlist, /Film, MacRumors, The Streamable and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
The Information:
Internal Facebook memo: editors for an upcoming news tab will exercise significant control over top stories, including judging the use of anonymous sources — Facebook has said repeatedly that it isn't in the journalism business, but a team of human editors responsible for an upcoming news initiative …
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@alexeheath, Engadget, @jessicalessin, @amir, @mattnavarra, @jason_kint, @aatilley, @aggiejournalist and Mashable
Kevin J. Delaney / Quartz:
Quartz announces new four-person investigation team, focused on ramifications of tech, which will use machine learning developed by its Quartz AI studio — For nearly seven years, Quartz has been obsessed with how technology infuses our lives, from Machines with Brains (algorithms and robots) …
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@jkeefe and @charliebeckett
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Study of eight European public broadcasters: their online news offerings add little reach, their audiences are old, educated, and politically diverse — Public service media are often widely used, highly trusted, and do not face the business pressures with which their private peers have to contend.
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American Press Institute, Press Gazette and @niemanreports
Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review:
Apple News Top Stories and Trending Stories audit: 20% of sources account for ~80% of articles; only 8.3% of articles in Top Stories were by local/regional pubs — On April 23, a federal judge in Oregon blocked the enforcement of a new rule banning abortion referrals at taxpayer-funded women's health clinics.
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@danielpetty, @seandkennedy, @frankwords, @frankwords, @frankwords, @frankwords and @frankwords
Meduza.io:
A look at Moscow's local government media environment and the contracts between the city and content suppliers used to drown out news and spread disinformation — Shortly before Sunday's elections to the Moscow City Duma, a mass of Russian-language news sites and social media accounts began posting …
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@thegrugq, @meduza_en, @noupside and @janelytv
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Center for American Progress says ThinkProgress will not function as a sounding board for scholars at the think tank and will instead be archived — The recently closed progressive news site will no longer exist as a sounding board for think tank scholars after union complaints.
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ThinkProgress, @nberlat, @pykea, @libbycwatson, @benspielberg, Talking Points Memo, @zackbeauchamp, The Wrap, @papapishu, @xlnb, @dylanmatt, @gzornick, @tara_cr, @them_l_g, @nataliesurely and The Wrap
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Atlas Obscura raises $20M Series B, led by Airbnb, which will let users book Atlas Obscura trips and experiences through the platform — Travel and exploration website's trips and events to be listed on Airbnb as part of deal — Travel and exploration website Atlas Obscura has built …
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@chrismessina, @charlierybak, @rafat, @keithrhernandez, @besvinick and @alexisohanian, more at Techmeme »
Michael Shepherd / Bangor Daily News:
Comcast, Fox, CBS, Disney sue Maine and 17 municipalities, saying US law preempts a state law set to take effect Sept. 19 meant to protect a la carte cable TV — This Jan. 24, 2019, file photo shows a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. The telecommunications giant is leading a lawsuit against Maine …
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@caseyriankelly, @philmeyer and Light Reading
Le Monde.fr:
460+ journalists at Le Monde sign a letter demanding a guarantee of editorial independence by granting them a right of approval for new controlling shareholders — Publié hier à 12h22, mis à jour à 09h31 … TRIBUNEMore than 460 journalists at « Le Monde » …
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