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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How The News Reporter of Columbus County, a small-town NC newspaper, increased its circulation and subscription revenue by building a digital-first workflow — Poynter and API teamed up this week to take a deeper look at what's working in local news. Here, you can read how The News Reporter grew …
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Better News, @kristenhare, @cislmunc, @travis5mith, @cislmunc, @michaelbarthel, @poynter, @pennyriordan1 and The Rural Blog
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T's new COO John Stankey says AT&T doesn't plan on selling DirecTV and he will continue as WarnerMedia CEO — John Stankey says AT&T doesn't plan to sell DirecTV; company has done portfolio reviews of satellite provider and other assets — AT&T Inc. T .12% 's chief operating officer defended …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
NYT's Mark Thompson warns “print-centric” UK newspapers face mass closures and says it is a myth to blame Facebook and Google for news industry's difficulties — New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson has warned UK newspapers are still too “print-centric” and face mass closures without drastic changes in policy.
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Nieman Lab and @vwpickard
Laura Kayali / Politico:
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews — Google will not pay press publishers in France to display their content and will instead change the way articles appear in search results …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vox Media's all-stock bid values New York Media at ~$105M, while Vox is valued at ~$750M in the deal; Vox was worth ~$1B in last funding round in 2015 — Deal would give New York about 12% of combined company — Vox Media's acquisition of New York Media values the New York magazine-parent …
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@benmullin, @asharma and @mccarthyryanj
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New York Times:
Vox Media has agreed to acquire New York Media, publisher of New York magazine and websites The Cut, Grub Street, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Vulture
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Treating individual donors and major givers alike, Mother Jones, which makes 55% of budget from reader donations, is set to raise $25M in its first big campaign — This is a story of how to turn 47 percent into $25 million. — In 2012 — eons ago in the speed of news cycles these days …
Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing:
The ACC Network, owned by ESPN, is now available on AT&T's U-verse and AT&T TV Now, leaving Comcast as the last big holdout — The ACC Network continues to grow its distribution. Following deals with Cox, Dish, Charter and more over the last month, ACC Network is now available …
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Cord Cutters News, @wfusportsstats and The Streamable
Report For America:
Report for America hires a recruitment chief, Norman Parish III, as it makes plans to scale up from 60 corps members now to 250 in 2020 — Norman Parish III, who over a three-decade career has worked in newsrooms in seven states, including as a metro editor in Chicago newsrooms, is Report for America's new Director of Recruitment.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
WaPo's Arc strikes a deal with BP, its first non-media customer, to publish articles and videos across 250 internal websites, newsletters, and future mobile app — - Post says Arc revenue will rival subscriptions and advertising — Jeff Bezos has helped the Post recruit and retain engineers
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@jbenton, @chrismunns, @gerryfsmith and @gerryfsmith
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Discovery partners with Amazon to launch Food Network Kitchen, a $6.99/month streaming service that lets subscribers attend up to 25 live cooking classes a week — Food Network Kitchen will let users take classes with celebrity chefs, order ingredients through food-delivery services
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Variety, The Wrap, @benmullin, Variety, @alexweprin, The Verge and The Streamable, more at Techmeme »
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016 — Comscore and its former CEO Serge Matta were charged Tuesday by the SEC with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace cut away from Trump's live news conference on Wednesday citing falsehoods made by the president; other networks chose to fact-check — Seven minutes after President Trump began his first news conference since House Democrats opened a formal impeachment inquiry …
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@janinezacharia, @poniewozik, @ericzuck, @deanluk, @jason_kint, @grynbaum, @mlcalderone and MSNBC
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