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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M everyday to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 — After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within …
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Hunter Walk / Medium:
Paid newsletters won't bring in enough money on their own for most writers, but creators can have multiple SKUs like podcasts, speaking gigs, and book deals — A number of reporters and columnists these days are “going indie,” detaching from their previous employer and signing up with a site like Substack …
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Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after rising by a ~30% quarterly average since Q3 2015 — Spending big money to make big money in the ad business may no longer be on the table inside Facebook's network — Facebook Inc.'s platforms are starting to feel like homes with too much furniture.
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@marklittlenews and @hoofnagle, more at Techmeme »
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Nonprofit ad group Ad Council is planning a $50M campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccines to skeptical Americans, after a similar polio campaign in the 1950s — The nonprofit marketing group led a polio vaccine campaign in the 1950s. Now it is working on a $50 million ad blitz to counter concerns about coming treatments.
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MediaPost, Ad Age, AgencySpy, @john_bailey, @tiffkhsu and @billburton
Drew Armstrong / Bloomberg:
A look at Covid Tracking Project, started by three journalists, with The Atlantic providing legal, comms, and tech support, to track the US spread of COVID-19 — At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs.
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New York Times:
Profile of Newsmax, which has become an unusual tribune for Trump's baseless accusations of voter fraud and whose owner is a longtime friend of the president — A once-niche conservative cable network, owned by a longtime friend of the president, lures audiences by refusing to declare an electoral winner.
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Mediaite, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, Poynter, The Week, @benyt, @jayrosen_nyu, @mark_histed, @nytimes and @oliverdarcy
Ben Smith / New York Times:
A look at Biden's relationship with the news media and writer Jon Meacham, as his presidency promises to do for newspaper columns what Trump did for cable — The next president promises to do for old-line newspaper columnists what Donald Trump did for cable. What a time to be George Will!
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@jon_allsop, Politico, @ewong, The Daily Beast, @catherine_lucey, @azi, @davidclinchnews, Revolving Door Project, @cliffordlevy, @raju, @dicktofel, @dhume, @debrajsaunders, @miriamelder, @benyt, @ckrewson and @edokeefe
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's DMGT reports full-year results: revenue down 10% YoY to £1.2B, pre-tax profits dropped 36% YoY to £72M, and ad revenue fell 9% YoY to £231M — Mail Online grew revenues by 3% in the year to September despite Covid-19 hammering other parts of the business.
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Media will debut is first original Christmas movie this year on Fox Nation, with cameos from Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt — Fox Nation will debut an original movie, ‘Christmas in the Rockies,’ as it expands its original entertainment programming slate …
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The Wrap, nexttv.com, Mediaite, @jbflint, @gregghoush, @alexweprin and @scottnover
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
Trump's clear election loss has widened the split in the right-wing online information ecosystem between those that choose reality and those that choose Trump — When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Apple now allows up to 10 different active offers per in-app subscription, allowing publishers to offer targeted discounts through their iPhone and iPad apps — Want to offer a special introductory rate for students and educators? Superfans of your local football team?
Delia Cai / Deez Links:
Q&A with The Atlantic's Ed Yong on the emotional difficulty of covering the pandemic, the challenge of reader fatigue, the responsibility of his rising profile — This week's interview is with none other than The Atlantic's Ed Yong, whose definitive writing on the pandemic …
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@delia_cai, @khayhoe, @edyong209, @dseetharaman, @nicolelzhu, @s_m_i, @s_m_i and @edyong209
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