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Max Willens / Digiday:
Sources: Apple is asking the publishers participating in Apple News+ for permission to produce audio versions of stories, with Apple handling production costs — Apple News+ is pivoting to audio. — Over the past several months, Apple has been asking the publishers participating …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Condé Nast will lay off about 100 US employees, with a similar number temporarily furloughed and a small number of staff getting reduced work schedules — Similar number to be temporarily furloughed as advertising slowdown takes a bite — Condé Nast …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
A Fox Corp memo extends the company's work from home directive through June 15, as Fox News stars echo Trump's call to “reopen the country” — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Luminary Media raised $30M+ at a level below last year's $200M valuation, bringing its total raised to $160M, and is seeking more funding — - Startup raises more than $30 million in round, looks for more — Luminary Media, the money-losing podcasting startup …
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Paul Kiel / ProPublica:
ProPublica, WaPo, Bloomberg, NYT, and Dow Jones have sued the Small Business Administration over its refusal to release details about who received PPP loans — The Small Business Administration, which is administering the lending program, has said it will disclose the names of companies that got loans — just not yet.
Bijan Stephen / The Verge:
Reports: live-streaming grew 45% between March and April, and 99% YoY; Twitch saw the highest growth, as hours watched rose 50% from March to April and 101% YoY — Every platform grew, but Twitch is still the biggest — We finally have numbers to back up the wild view counts we've seen …
Tim Warsinskey / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland.com will now produce all content for The Plain Dealer, 4 remaining Plain Dealer reporters have job offers at cleveland.com; union to be dissolved — CLEVELAND, Ohio — The reality and challenge of being a journalist these days is covering change while being part of change.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News has launched a new series called COVID Contrarian on Fox Nation with notorious coronavirus skeptic and one-time NYT reporter Alex Berenson — Public-health experts have taken issue with the former reporter's militantly contrarian takes on the pandemic, but he's found a home in the right-wing media ecosystem.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook will pay $52M in a settlement covering 11,250 content moderators as compensation for mental health issues developed on the job — Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000 — In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce …
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Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Morning Consult, the market research startup founded in 2014, raises $31M Series A from James Murdoch's Lupa Systems and others, at a valuation of $306M — - Murdoch's Lupa Systems backs market research firm with funding — Company raised $31 million valuing it at $306 million
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Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
People's digital team announces its intention to form a union with the NewsGuild, joining its print division, which unionized in the 1970s — Ninety-six percent of the brand's digital group employees nationwide who are eligible have signed cards indicating their interest in organizing.
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Washington Post:
Trump's “ask China” answer to a question by CBS' Weijia Jiang shocked listeners and fit his pattern of suggesting reporters have loyalties based on ethnicity — President Trump has a long history of using the bully pulpit to take jabs at reporters.
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