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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
A look at the profitable subscription-based tech news site The Information, which Jessica Lessin says is expected to reach $20M in sales by the end of 2020 — Jessica Lessin's online tech publication costs $399 a year and has no ads. Silicon Valley's elite is eating it up.
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@CTGuild / Chicago Tribune Guild:
[Thread] Tribune Publishing's Chicago-area newsrooms are losing more than a dozen staffers who chose to take buyouts in the most recent round of cuts — Today we mark the departures of more than a dozen colleagues, both in and out of the Guild, across all Chicago-area Tribune Publishing newsrooms, who have chosen to take the most recent round of buyouts. We wish them the best in this new era for their careers and their lives.
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@elviamalagon, @grahambrose, @rexhuppke, @marywizchicago, @ctguild, @ctguild, @ctguild, @ctguild, @robertloerzel, @hannahmeisel, @mariecdillon, @aliciak2010 and @davidfolkenflik
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: new Tribune Publishing CEO Terry Jimenez cut at least six positions ranked VP or higher, including that of Grant Whitmore, former Daily News publisher — Even the ax men are getting axed at Tribune Publishing. — The struggling newspaper giant's new boss has unleashed a bloodbath …
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Vanity Fair, @chrisjonestrib, @rhodes_dawn, @jayhancock1, Poynter and Washingtonian
Ad Age:
New York Times Magazine leads Ellies with 10 nominations, a record for the title; NY Magazine gets nine, Nat Geo eight, Bon Appetit and the New Yorker six each — The Times Magazine, New York Mag and Nat Geo shine in the finalist phase of the Ellies — A magazine published by a newspaper …
Muri Assunção / New York Daily News:
Elena Milashina, who has won awards for reporting on the torture of gay men in Chechnya, was beaten up by a crowd at a hotel in the Chechen capital of Grozny — A prominent investigative Russian journalist and a human rights lawyer were attacked late Thursday evening by a gang in the lobby …
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BBC, Committee to Protect …, Commissioner for Human Rights and @niemanfdn
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Investigation finds a network of around 100 “local news” sites, dating back to at least 2015, that have been plagiarizing stories from major news organizations — As they stole stories from real newspapers, these sites baffled scientists, activists, and journalists. Until now.
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American Press Institute, @dpfunke, @walldo, @marcacaputo, @eliothiggins and Boing Boing
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
The author of California's AB5 law says she'll seek amendments to remove restrictions on freelance journalists, cutting out the 35 article submission cap — The author of AB5, California's new gig-work law, said Thursday that she'll seek amendments that remove some restrictions …
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CNN, Associated Press, @anthonyirwinla, @rdotinga, @air_force_juan, @j_chien, @senaterepcaucus, @lorenasgonzalez, Los Angeles Times and @lorenasgonzalez
Maria Repnikova / New York Times:
How journalists in China have managed to cover the coronavirus outbreak by veiling criticism in human-interest stories and drawing on expert commentary — Reporters and citizen-journalists in China are asking hard questions about the crisis. Why is the government letting them?
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@hlcot, @rasmus_kleis, @suilee, @prashantrao, @marcusryder, Quartz, @gsuartsci, @vidyakrishnan, @sheenagreitens, Committee to Protect … and @mattdpearce
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
Thrillist partners with Academic Travel Abroad to curate educational trips, using travel to diversify revenue, like The Culture Trip and Lonely Planet — Food, travel and entertainment digital media site Thrillist is the latest publisher to move into travel packages as a way of diversifying revenue.
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Group Nine Media, Forbes and MediaPost
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Since it began, Netflix has taken down nine pieces of content after govt requests: five in Singapore, and one in New Zealand, Vietnam, Germany and Saudi Arabia — Netflix has taken down just 9 pieces of content around the world in response to written government requests since it was founded 23 years ago …
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Variety, The Verge, @eightiethmnt, @eightiethmnt, Engadget, Fast Company and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
NPR:
Public radio stations in CA partner with NPR to form a regional newsroom to increase coverage of statewide issues and reporting about and from underserved areas — Joanne Griffith introduced as the first managing editor of the collaboration, which aims to help to boost coverage throughout the state …
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@globaljourno, New York Times and @lizzieohreally
Tim Dams / Variety:
Vice News Tonight is set to relaunch on March 4 in an hour-long live format on Vice TV with shows Monday through Thursday — Vice is to relaunch its nightly news show, “Vice News Tonight,” in a new hour-long live format on March 4 on Vice TV. Vice has named TV news veteran Nikki Egan …
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