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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Express, The Washington Post's free weekday paper for commuters, will close after 16 years on Thursday due to its financial condition; 20 journalists laid off — Express, the free newspaper published weekdays by The Washington Post for Metro riders and other commuters, will shut down on Thursday …
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Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Executives from seven newspaper companies lobbied Congress on Tuesday for support of a bill that would let newspapers jointly negotiate with tech platforms — Executives from seven newspaper companies lobbied Capitol Hill yesterday to urge Congress to pass the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act …
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Axios, @jeffjarvis, News Media Alliance, @spj_tweets, New Jersey Globe and Fox Business
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, @emgollie, @mollydeaguiar, @radioambulante, @eclaireoh, @rowanc, @rfaughnder, Nieman Lab and Hot Pod News
Emily Tamkin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with CNN's Daniel Dale, who says it's important to correct Trump falsehoods, intentional or unintentional, because he's consistently wrong on details — In June, CNN hired Daniel Dale, a reporter who had become—to the extent possible for reporters—famous, specifically for fact-checking.
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@ddale8, @owillis, @ajentleson, Politico, @emilyctamkin, @ddale8, @cjr, @mlcalderone and CNN
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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Nieman Lab, Engadget, The Verge, @alexeheath, Mashable, @jason_kint, @aggiejournalist, @aatilley, @mattnavarra, @jessicalessin and @amir
Denise Petski / Deadline:
BBC News will produce an international news show for short-form video startup Quibi, to be filmed in London five days a week and launching in April 2020 — Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form video platform, has announced a partnership with BBC News to produce …
Discussion:
Variety and TechCrunch
Doris Truong / Poynter:
ASNE survey: people of color make up 22% of staff in legacy print newsrooms; at online-only outlets, journalists of color make up about a third of staff — Fewer people of color are employed in America's newsrooms than organizers of a well-known newsroom diversity survey had hoped.
Discussion:
@poynter and @toddlighty
TechCrunch:
Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects, for an undisclosed sum — Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated …
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Music Business Worldwide, Variety and Reuters
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:
The Athletic will make its first foray into ad-supported content with a daily in-depth sports podcast called “The Lead”, launching later this month — - The sports subscription site is launching a free daily podcast — New show is a joint production with podcast publisher Wondery
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@newsynick, @jesshstark, @russohockey, @rafat, @hernanlopez and @iboudway
P R Sanjai / Bloomberg:
Apple says its TV+ streaming service will cost ~$1.40/month in India when it launches on November 1, undercutting both Netflix and Amazon — - Price undercuts Netflix, Amazon as OTT competition intensifies — Apple TV includes original content, ‘thousands’ of films
Discussion:
The Verge, Digital TV Europe, Mumbrella, Wccftech, MediaPost, @laurengoode, @laurengoode and VentureBeat
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Lacking ad buy figures, a comparison of the weight of the September issues of five fashion magazines shows significant declines since 2016, notably for Elle — Our annual fall weigh-in reveals flat and falling numbers. — The story of shrinking magazines and fewer ad pages is anything but new.
Discussion:
bookforum.com
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
The producers and stars of the TV drama Bones settle their lawsuits with 20th Century Fox's studio over the disbursement of profits — Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Barry Josephson, and Kathy Reichs take a lucrative settlement after scoring an arbitration award that slammed Fox's “reprehensible” fraud.
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