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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Google News Initiative launches The Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to aid small and medium-sized local news publishers globally — Google has launched a global emergency relief fund for local news publishers to help them during the coronavirus (Covid-19) downturn.
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Financial Times:
Financial Times cuts senior staff pay by 10% and UK's Daily Telegraph will move non-editorial staff to a 4-day week from May 1 with a 20% pay cut — Telegraph also makes cost savings as news groups are hit by falling advertising and print sales — The Financial Times …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Guardian Media Group expects £20M revenue shortfall over the next six months, will furlough 100 non-editorial staff, suspend pay rises, and cut execs pay by 20% — The Guardian Media Group has said it expects revenues to be down by £20m over the next six months as it announced …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
NY court rules that Mashable can't be sued for embedding an Instagram post, since the photographer offered a “valid sublicense” by posting the image publicly — ‘This court cannot release her from the agreement she made.’ — A court ruled yesterday that Mashable can embed …
Elaina Plott / New York Times:
Sources: in early March, Trump discussed hosting a daily, two-hour radio show from the White House but dropped the idea so as not to compete with Rush Limbaugh — President Trump said he envisioned a show running two hours a day, according to White House officials, and would do it were it not for the risk …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
WarnerMedia says it reached a multi-year deal to bring HBO Max to Charter subscribers in May; current HBO subscribers will get access for no extra charge — In a significant milestone before it launches HBO Max next month, WarnerMedia has set a deal with Charter Communications …
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Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Axios launches an iOS app with Facebook as a launch partner, after moving up the launch due to an uptick in traffic surrounding COVID-19 — Facebook is a launch sponsor — Under normal circumstances, Axios is still weeks away from releasing its app. The more time to beta test, the better.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC News tests a version of its Nightly News for kids and teens between 6 and 16, streaming on YouTube today and likely to appear at least twice a week — Lester Holt is about to discuss hard news with a softer touch. — The “NBC Nightly News” anchor will lead an experimental version …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Taboola, Parse.ly, Chartbeat data: COVID-19 traffic to news sites peaked in mid-March and traffic has now gone down, though it remains higher than average — Audience numbers now look more like a standard busy news week than a global pandemic that's captured the world's attention.
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The Daily Beast:
After Trump's COVID-19 briefing on Monday became free airtime for a Trump attack ad, staffers fume at networks' decision to air the propaganda video live — After Monday's briefing became free airtime for a Trump attack ad, news staffers once again wondered why anyone should carry the rally-like events live anymore.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Snopes says it had 37M visitors from late February to late March, up 43% from the previous 30 days, as it deals with an avalanche of COVID-19 misinformation — The people wanted to know: Did self-described psychic Sylvia Browne predict the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in her 2008 book?
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
WBUR, the Boston NPR affiliate, raised $1M in just 13 hours after scrapping a planned eight-day pledge drive due to the pandemic — The coronavirus pandemic and the public's appetite for local coverage of cases, hospitals, and economic impacts are forcing public radio stations around …
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