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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
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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