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8:10 AM ET, March 16, 2020

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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Publications dependent on revenue from event ads, like alt-weeklies, are hit hard by coronavirus; Seattle's The Stranger says it's lost ~90% of its income  —  In a memo to staff, The New York Times called the coronavirus “an enormous story, a once-in-a-generation crisis that inevitably touches everyone's lives.”
Variety:
Sources: Universal Music Group chief Lucian Grainge has been hospitalized after a positive COVID-19 test  —  Universal Music Chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge has been hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus, multiple sources exclusively told Variety.
Emily Roseman / The Membership Puzzle Project:
How Danish subscription news site Zetland, with ~15K members, achieved financial sustainability by leveraging its most loyal supporters to recruit new members  —  In March 2016, the Danish member-driven newsroom Zetland launched as a daily publication with the goal of adding curiosity and complexity to public conversation.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
How NYT reported on a months-long investigation into lawyers of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims guided by an unreliable source and ultimately exposing little  —  Audio will be available later today.  —  The intriguing tale began in mid-September with an invitation for two New York Times reporters …
Poynter:
A licensed psychotherapist weighs in on how journalists can manage the stress of nonstop COVID-19 coverage  —  9 ways journalists can push back against the stress of an always-on story  —  I have been hearing from journalists who are stressed out by this nonstop COVID-19 coverage.
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Chinese journalists, usually muzzled, are publicly pushing back against the government's positive coronavirus spin, buoyed by widespread calls for free speech  —  The Communist Party is trying to fill the airwaves with positive stories about its battle against the virus.
Discussion: Fox News
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Interview with John Paton, chairman of the UK's Independent Digital News and Media, on traffic and revenue growth at digital-only news outlet The Independent  —  Four years ago it seemed the death of The Independent's print edition was the sad end to a brave but ultimately futile journalism story.
Wall Street Journal:
TikTok says it will stop using ~100 moderators it had in China to monitor overseas content and shift that work to those outside China  —  The popular short-video app said it would halt using China-based moderators to monitor overseas content and shift that work to those outside of China.
Rachel Piper / Better News:
Q&A with Rachel Piper, digital news director at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, on how the paper drove subscriptions by making journalists its brand ambassadors  —  Here's an idea to steal and adapt: Ask the journalists in your newsroom to tell readers about the value of their work …
 
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