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5:00 PM ET, December 28, 2020

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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of Heather Cox Richardson, a Boston College professor whose hit newsletter on Substack goes out to ~350K and adds historical context to current news  —  She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history.
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Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
While the durability of Substack's model remains to be seen, a cultural turn toward journalistic individualism might not be in the interests of a democracy  —  The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
A Chinese court sentences citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who documented the early COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, to four years in prison  —  Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, is the first known person to be tried for challenging the Chinese government's narrative about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
AT&T says that nearly half of HBO Max's retail subscribers viewed Wonder Woman 1984 on Friday alone, the same day the movie debuted in theaters  —  Christmas is often one of the most popular times of year to gather the family and watch a new movie, and this holiday was no different.
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
fuboTV quietly drops its $59.99/month Standard Plan for new users, making its $64.99/month Family Bundle the cheapest option  —  fuboTV has quietly made some changes to their plans over the last week.  While it has been “hidden” on the site for quite some time, now the Live TV Streaming Service …
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Tim Ingham / Rolling Stone:
A look at music sample marketplaces like Beatport, Splice, BeatStars, and LANDR, which could soon become acquisition targets for major record companies  —  Beatport's acquisition of Loopmasters may have just fired the starter pistol on an acquisition frenzy in sector of “sample packs,” …
Axios:
The New Yorker devotes almost an entire issue to The Plague Year, a 40-page account of how America botched its virus response, a rare step for the magazine  —  The New Yorker is devoting nearly the entire issue — something the magazine has done just a handful of times in its history — to …
Mike Ananny / Nieman Lab:
For 2021, technology journalism could improve if reporters examine their use of sources, work to understand academic research, and question their assumptions  —  “Could technology journalists be in service of something better than more speech, improved content moderation, unbiased algorithms, and consensual surveillance capitalism?"
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Sensor Tower: Aaj Tak Live News, CricBuzz, and News Break are the most downloaded news apps globally in 2020, with CNN and BBC among the top 15  —  The BBC News app was downloaded 2.2 million times in 2020 making it the most popular newly-installed news app in the UK during the year.
 
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Profile of veteran radio host Delilah, whose daily call-in show lets listeners open up on air and has the largest audience among radio shows hosted by women
James Risen / The Intercept:
Snowden and Assange deserve presidential pardons, but so do the eight government officials charged by the Trump Administration in leak cases
New York Times:
Bollywood is also starting to shift to streaming with 28 major films skipping theaters this year, though they represent only a fraction of the films made yearly