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Nieman Lab:
Protocol, billed as “Politico, but for tech”, launches as a sponsor-supported outlet with journalists who have worked at Wired, NYT, WSJ, and The Information — “Technology is no longer just a sector of the economy or an industry — it's a global power center akin to any nation's capital.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Tribune Publishing employees, amid buyouts, are still seeking to avoid further decimation of journalism now that Alden Global Capital owns 32% of the company — In its mission to squeeze the last profits out of newspapers, Alden Global Capital has eliminated the jobs of scores of reporters and editors …
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Kimberly Pierceall / Virginian-Pilot:
Tribune Publishing has accepted buyouts from 20 people in news operations at The Virginian-Pilot, Daily Press, and related community publications — The owner of The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press newspapers, as well as their community publications, has accepted buyouts from 20 people …
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says Chrome's ad blocker will expand to target disruptive video ads in August, including long pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and overlay ads on video — Last year, Google made Chrome's standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Survey of 1,711 UK adults during the general election campaign finds BBC News and Mail Online together accounted for 49% of all time spent on news websites — BBC News and Mail Online together accounted for almost half of all time spent on news websites by UK adults during …
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Mairav Zonszein / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Forward has trimmed staff and operating losses, ended its print edition, shifted from news toward opinion, and, progressives say, abandoned the Jewish left — How America's Jewish newspaper lost the left — Last year was not great for The Forward, the only national Jewish media outlet in the United States.
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees — The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 | Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
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Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Corporation reports net income of $314M on revenue of $3.78B, up 5% YoY; fair values of investments in Roku and Canada's The Stars Group boosted income — Quarterly revenue rose 5 percent to $3.78 billion compared to a year-earlier $3.58 billion. — Fox Corp., led by CEO …
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Tom Foremski / ZDNet:
Although Google disclosed many financial metrics for the first time in Q4, it removed cost-per-click, which has steadily declined, and the number of paid clicks — Google makes less money per click every quarter. Now, we won't know how much less. Is there trouble ahead in online advertising?
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Will Peischel / Mother Jones:
In recent years, TV meteorologists, who once avoided discussing climate change on air, have not only started talking about it but also about solving it — This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
YouTube shares criteria for the original content it will fund with $100M for audiences aged 3-8 on YouTube Kids over the next three years, after its FTC deal — - YouTube has pledged to spend $100 million on kids programming — Creators told to focus on strengths like self-control, empathy
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Jenny Singer / Glamour:
Seven female journalists, including CNN's Dana Bash and NYT's Eileen Sullivan, talk about covering Trump's impeachment, the Democratic primaries, and more — Keeping up with the news has never felt harder. There's a crowded and contentious election, a historic impeachment trial …
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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Pride Media's new CEO Diane Anderson-Minshall talks about plans to reorganize editorial operations at its LGBT titles and how it can become profitable this year — Pride Media and its four LGBTQ-focused titles, including Out and The Advocate magazines, began 2020 on shaky ground following …
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