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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Disney says Disney+ has seen 10M signups since launching on Tuesday — Disney's new streaming service has already seen 10 million sign-ups since launching Tuesday, the company announced Wednesday. — Disney's stock was up slightly on the news. Netflix shares were down 1%. — This is breaking news.
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Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Emails from 2015-2016 to Katie McHugh, then at Breitbart, show how WH adviser Stephen Miller helped shape stories to mirror or amplify white nationalist ideas — In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature …
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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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Robby Soave / Reason:
Northwestern University's student newspaper The Daily Northwestern sparks backlash for editorial apologizing for its news reporting that offended some students
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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 …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
C-SPAN's assignment desk manager Jon Kelley, who covered Clinton's impeachment, talks about the channel's extensive preparations to cover the Trump impeachment — Jon Kelley was just one year into his career at C-SPAN when he operated a camera at the House's impeachment hearings for President Bill Clinton in 1998.
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: former HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler is in talks with Apple for an exclusive deal for his new production company — Former HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler is back with a new venture, a production company based at Apple. — Plepler, who exited HBO at the end of February …
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John McCarthy / The Drum:
UK broadcaster ITV unveils Planet V, its addressable TV advertising product, launching in February 2020 — ITV has unveiled the first details of its addressable TV advertising product due for 2020. It announced Planet V ahead of the ITV Palooza at the Royal Festival Hall Tuesday (12 November).
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Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge:
Privacy-focused open source browser Brave officially launches version 1.0, available on all major platforms — And it has a plan to pay users and publishers for ads — Today marks the official launch of Brave 1.0, a free open-source browser. The beta version has already drawn 8 million monthly users …
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Karen Zraick / New York Times:
A University of Illinois policy requiring NPR member station reporters to disclose information about sources who report sexual misconduct comes under criticism — The university, which owns the license for NPR Illinois, says the station's journalists are bound by Title IX rules …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at AARP's significant media presence, with $174M in print and digital ad revenue in 2017 and magazine circulation that surpassed People's — “OK, millennials. But we're the people that actually have the money," Myrna Blyth, senior vice president and editorial director of AARP Media …
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David Maas / Nieman Lab:
German publisher DuMont is using a new metric called “priority visitors”, readers who visit at least five times a month, to increase retention and subscribers — The German publisher DuMont didn't always track loyalty among its readers. Instead, its editors did what many in the news industry …
Musa al-Gharbi / Columbia Journalism Review:
Analysis: NYT mentioned Trump every ~250 substantive words in 2017, or two to three times per story, higher than any modern US president during their first year — The way the press covers Donald Trump is unlike any other president in modern American history. Quantifiably so.
Splinter:
Splinter staff says farewell in final joint post: “I remember my editor telling me ‘no heroes’, and we stuck with that”, said Managing Editor Katherine Krueger — There is no real origin story for Splinter. — Across my two years as editor in chief …
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