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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Zuckerberg cited a need for diversity of views when asked about Breitbart's presence in Facebook News, but also said News is only for high-quality, curated news — On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism, fueling the launch of a new dedicated news tab on its platform.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook takes a step forward by putting money behind high-quality journalism, but must not leave small publishers behind or promote purveyors of disinformation — Ronald Reagan called these the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
At an event with News Corp's Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
WaPo drew backlash for its digital headline on an obit of ISIS's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling him an “austere religious scholar”; the headline has been changed — The Washington Post changed the headline on its obituary for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after initially calling him an …
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Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute: how Rappler, Daily Maverick, and The Quint are retreating from engaging audiences at-scale via social media to build stronger communities — Dramatic shifts in the media landscape over the past two decades — including the advent of social media, the rise of participatory audiences …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Trump's South Lawn press gaggles, of which there have been 75, allow him to grab the spotlight while marginalizing the press — A great racket rises, like a symphony of a thousand hedge trimmers, from the South Lawn of the White House. A shambling pack of men and women …
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Fred Nicolaus / Business of Home:
Profile of Food52, a media and ecommerce platform majority-owned by The Chernin Group that began as a recipe blog and now sells a wide range of home products — Summer is wedding season, but summer's over. This autumn, it's media companies that are getting married.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
AT&T says it will sell its majority stake in Central European Media Enterprises to Czech investment firm PPF Group for $1.1B in cash, shedding $575M in debt — AT&T has struck a deal to sell its majority stake in Central European Media Enterprises for $1.1 billion as part …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
RAJAR: podcasts now reach 8.4M listeners in the UK, up from 6M in 2018, with 7.4M people listening to the BBC online or through apps — LBC's audience has grown by almost 500,000 people in the past year to reach 2.6m, the highest weekly reach in the station's 46-year history.
Deanna Ting / Digiday:
In Q3, Snapchat says total daily time spent on Discover increased by 40% YoY and 100+ Discover channels saw a monthly audience of more than 10M viewers — What was once a money pit for some publishers is now becoming more of a gold mine. — Snapchat Discover has become a profitable venture …
BBC:
Source: the Barclay brothers are looking to sell the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph; Telegraph Media Group's profit last year was £900K, down 94% YoY — The billionaire owners of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph are to put both titles up for sale.
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Daniel Tovrov / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Newsweek's grim condition: journalists are ranked by page views and expected to write four stories a day as the company struggles to pay its bills — No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists — On March 20, Nancy Cooper, the editor in chief of Newsweek, sent an email to her editorial staff.
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ProPublica:
Sources: John Solomon, now at Fox, worked closely with Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, sharing files and letting him watch an interview with Ukraine source — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter …
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