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Robby Soave / Reason:
Northwestern University's student newspaper The Daily Northwestern sparks backlash for editorial apologizing for its news reporting that offended some students — The Daily Northwestern is the student newspaper of Northwestern University, which is home to the Medill School of Journalism …
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Charles Whitaker / Medill:
Northwestern's journalism school dean says The Daily Northwestern's protest coverage was responsible and fair, and student journalists faced “vicious bullying” — “Journalists have a heady responsibility performing our role as the authors of the first rough draft of history …
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Financial Times:
The Financial Times names Roula Khalaf as its editor, succeeding Lionel Barber, who will step down at the beginning of 2020 — 12 November 2019: The Financial Times today announces the appointment of Roula Khalaf as editor. She succeeds Lionel Barber, who has held the position since 2005 and will step down at the beginning of 2020.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Politico owner Robert Allbritton is officially announcing his new tech site, Protocol, to launch in early 2020 with several dozen journalists and business staff — With talent poached from Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, etc., and coverage written for “C-suite kinds of folks …
Megh Wright / Vulture:
John Oliver calls attention to SLAPP suits after one brought by a coal mogul was dropped but still cost his show $200K and tripled its libel insurance premium — Remember back in 2017 when John Oliver did a Last Week Tonight segment about coal company CEO and “geriatric Dr. Evil” Bob Murray …
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Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Disney+ spokesperson acknowledges service issues on launch day, saying consumer demand exceeded “high expectations”, as users complain that they can't connect — New York (CNN Business)Disney+ launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, and then immediately hit some bumps.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Atlantic revamps its iOS app, which now opens to a human-curated Today screen, with the rest of the content paywalled for $4.99/month or $49.99/year — Along with a redesign, The Atlantic launched a revamped iOS app Tuesday. — The iOS-only app starts off with a “Today” screen …
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Artur Piszek / The WordPress.com Blog:
Automattic partners with Stripe to debut Recurring Payments for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, to let content creators collect repeat contributions — It's hard to be creative when you're worried about money. Running ads on your site helps, but for many creators, ad revenue isn't enough.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS Q3: net earnings of $319M, down from $488M a year ago; revenue of $3.3B, up 1% YoY; direct-to-consumer revenue from Showtime OTT and All Access rose 39% YoY — The company, led by acting CEO Joe Ianniello, is in early December expected to complete its recombination with Viacom.
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Will Thorne / Variety:
ABC to stop reporting all Live+Same Day ratings except for live events, the second major network to do so after Fox, will now rely on delayed viewership figures — ABC is set to become the second of the major networks to no longer use Live+Same Day figures to measure the performance of its shows …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists are anonymously sharing their salaries and other relevant information like their gender identity, location, and work history in a public Google doc — When journalists want to talk among themselves about something difficult, the anonymous Google Doc seems to have become the mechanism.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram debuts Reels, a TikTok-style video remix feature, which lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, in Brazil — Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to — finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok.
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