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Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute study: EU local news publishers are moving away from chasing broad reach and toward building paying audiences, changing how some use Facebook — “Look, I know you got that Facebook comment, but it's the vocal minority. There's a silent majority who are actually paying for our work."
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@risj_oxford, Reuters Institute …, @joyjenkins, @janebsinger, @annisch, @niemanlab, @rasmus_kleis, @risj_oxford, @rasmus_kleis and @raju
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter says its test to prompt users to read articles before retweeting was a success, with users opening articles 40% more and sometimes opting not to retweet — Twitter's experiment to get people to actually read the content they're sharing is going so well the company plans to expand it to the platform at large “very soon.”
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Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: ViacomCBS investigated a sexual misconduct claim against CEO Bob Bakish; ViacomCBS said the probe has ended, results “did not support the allegation” — ViacomCBS has been investigating an allegation of sexual misconduct by its CEO, Bob Bakish, according to several people familiar with the situation.
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Variety, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, @amir, @grnbulls, @jtoonkel and New York Post
Wall Street Journal:
E.W. Scripps to buy ION Media for $2.65B, roughly doubling its TV station footprint; Berkshire Hathaway will invest $600M in Scripps to help finance the deal — Berkshire plans to make a $600 million preferred-equity investment in Scripps to help finance the purchase
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Adweek, TVNewsCheck, Variety, @greenblattmark, Deadline, @mrjlalonde, Business Insider France, @cararlombardo, The Streamable and MediaPost
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts — More Spotify podcasts could soon become TV shows or movies thanks to a new, multi-year partnership announced today between the streaming music provider …
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Variety, The Wrap, The Verge, @xpangler, Engadget, @richlightshed, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Forbes and Spotify, more at Techmeme »
The Guardian:
Harold Evans, an investigative journalist for 70 years, newspaper editor, magazine founder, and book publisher, died Wednesday at 92 — Legendary British-American media figure was behind major investigations including exposure of thalidomide scandal — Sir Harold Evans …
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Alan Rusbridger / The Guardian:
The circumstances that led Harold Evans to become a leader in journalism are unlikely to recur: at the Times, he had time, resources, and an “apolitical” owner
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Press Gazette, @profkeithdevlin, @simonubsdell, @arusbridger, @obornetweets, @ekizilkaya, Reuters, @michael_o_regan, @shentonstage, @picardonhealth, @michaelwhite, @janinegibson, @lionelbarber, @emmadaly, @carolecadwalla, @davidalvarez, @rupertmyers, @yavuzbaydar4, @lenoretaylor and Financial Times
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Ahead of US elections, YouTube says it is including info panels under videos about voting by mail, pointing viewers to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center — Official candidate info will also appear in searches — YouTube is stepping up its measures against misinformation around the upcoming US election.
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Bloomberg, @mhbergen, CNET, The Hill, @kellymakena, @mattgertz, TechCrunch and blog.youtube, more at Techmeme »
Poynter:
A free training course, Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms, expands with three more cohorts starting in 2021, supported by the Google News Initiative — The Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms training program will expand due to its success — When we launched our news product training pilot …
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@louiegilot, @tylrfishr, @pilhofer and Newmark J-School
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien predicts that digital English-language news subscriptions will reach 100M by 2030, says NYT can command a quarter of the market — The chief executive of the New York Times has predicted that 100m people will have digital English-language news subscriptions in ten years' time.
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CNN, @raju and @robinlustig
Washington City Paper:
The Washington City Paper says it's temporarily moving from a weekly to monthly print schedule, “in an effort to protect staff and salaries as best we can” — In April, we stated our intention to keep printing weekly editions of Washington City Paper despite plummeting ad sales …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
INN: on average, nonprofit newsrooms are 68% white, 9% Black, 9% Hispanic; two-thirds don't have POC execs; in 2019, for every 10 Black staff hired, seven left — More than half of all nonprofit outlets have either no people of color or “only a small percentage” within their ranks.
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@raju, @emmacarew, @nickcharles61, @spj_tweets, @niemanlab and @marcusryder
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
YouTube expands a fact-checking feature on issues related to elections and COVID-19 to Germany and UK, after initially launching it in the US, Brazil, and India — - YouTube will display information and links from third-party publishers on queries related to issues like elections and the coronavirus pandemic.
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@ryan_browne_ and The Drum
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:
Sources: Deanna Brown, president of Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, is out after the merger with PMC — Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group President Deanna Brown is out at MRC after the merger between PMC and MRC on Wednesday, according to two individuals with knowledge of the matter.
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Variety:
Variety parent company Penske Media reaches a deal with MRC to operate Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter under a newly formed joint venture called PMRC
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