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Substack Blog:
Substack begins offering legal support to US-based writers with paid subscriptions who publish work that may attract unreasonable legal pressure — For the last few months, we have been piloting a legal support program for independent writers on Substack. As part of this program …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Salaried reporters embrace platforms like Substack, seeing the newsletter as a way to communicate directly with readers, test new ideas, and nurture obsessions — The reporter-written newsletter has become an obsession among freelancers looking to scrounge up support wherever they can find it.
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@michellemanafy, @bnox, @sohear, @mattnavarra and @kantrowitz
Apple:
Apple updates News to include audio stories on Apple News+, a daily audio news briefing, and curated local news collections in five US cities and regions — Apple is introducing several new features for Apple News and Apple News+, including audio stories of some of the best feature stories from Apple News+ …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Guardian to cut workforce by 12%, with 70 jobs to go in editorial and 110 in commercial roles, as revenues are expected to be down by £25M+ on the year's budget — Revenues expected to be down by more than £25m as effects of pandemic hit media industry
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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Twitter appears to have completely disabled some verified accounts' ability to send new tweets while it investigates today's massive hack — Twitter seems to be trying to contain the hack — Twitter appears to have completely disabled the ability for some accounts to send new tweets following …
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Jordan Moreau / Variety:
ViacomCBS fires actor and TV host Nick Cannon, after he made anti-Semitic comments on his podcast — In the June 30 episode of “Cannon's Class,” the actor and TV host interviewed Professor Griff, a rapper who was a part of Public Enemy before leaving the group after making anti-Semitic remarks.
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Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Q&A with Matt Strauss, the head of NBC's new Peacock streaming service, about the name, its free-tier approach, launching during a pandemic, and more — New York (CNN Business)After a Max, a Plus and another Plus, the streaming world is now being introduced to a Peacock.
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
NBCUniversal's Peacock launches with a free ad-supported tier offering 10,000+ hours of streaming content and 2 premium levels with double the content
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Steven Perlberg / Digiday:
Slack, introduced to newsrooms to boost efficiency, is now serving another purpose: letting journalists organize and criticize, forcing management to respond — On the evening of June 6, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet entered the chat. — Times employees were in open revolt following …
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@jkeefe, @zamosta, @jessiwrites, Backbencher, Axios, Fox News, @glennf, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis and Politico, more at Techmeme »
Christopher Testa / ABC:
News Corp Australia will launch more than 50 digital-only regional titles over the next two to three years, with the first 15 by the end of September — News Corp is preparing to launch more than a dozen new digital-only titles in major centres of regional Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia.
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Mumbrella, Talking Biz News, @saffronhowden and @jarrodwhittaker
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Facebook to launch Facts about Covid-19, a new section in the Covid Information Center, to debunk myths about the pandemic — - Facebook announced it will launch a new section of its social network dedicated to dispel inaccurate myths about Covid-19. — Mark Zuckerberg will conduct …
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Eliana Miller / Poynter:
Some online outlets fail to clearly and uniformly label opinion, leading to reader confusion and complaints over opinions and political agendas in reporting — In print, it's fairly clear what's an opinion piece and what's a news article. Online, things aren't so clear.
Lyz Lenz / Columbia Journalism Review:
An Iowa journalist reflects on the national media's overuse of stereotypes during election coverage and how it turns real places into quaint backdrops — How election reporters see us, and how we view them — To be at the center of a media frenzy is to be sucked into a vortex. Eventually, you get spit out.
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
A freelancer with Jerusalem Post and The Algemeiner bylines, who attacked critics of NSO Group, seems to be an elaborate fiction with a deepfake profile photo — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oliver Taylor, a student at England's University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile.
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