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Saqib Shah / Engadget:
Google launches Google News Showcase in UK and Argentina, after debuting the service in Australia last week, and says it now has over 450 publications globally — Google News Showcase is starting to roll out to more countries worldwide, including the UK and Argentina, on the heels of its Australian launch last week.
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The Keyword, CNBC, Press Gazette, The Verge, @niemanlab, 9to5Google, @googlenewsinit, The Keyword, @googleuk, @danrussell12000, @googlenewsinit and @googlenewsinit, more at Techmeme »
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Twitter says it has suspended 500+ accounts in India for violating rules but has not taken any action on accounts of journalists, activists, and politicians — Twitter said on Wednesday it has taken actions on more than 500 accounts and reduced visibility of some hashtags in India …
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Twitter, BuzzFeed News, CNN, New Republic, @ibnkhayyam, The Verge, @rasmus_kleis, @adityakalra, @dhume, @sharmakadambini, Financial Times, Gizmodo, @mathewi, @twittersafety, @sanjukta, Insider, @raheelk, @nixxin, @pranavdixit, @sagarikaghose, @lee_toth, @dangillmor, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Indian Express and The Economic Times, more at Techmeme »
The Atlantic:
The Atlantic launches Inheritance, a multiyear project to make oral histories and other artifacts of Black history and ancestry widely accessible — Too much knowledge has been lost, too many stories distorted, too many people forgotten. We mourn for all we do not know.
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Digiday and @jessedamiani
Spiegel Online:
Marty Baron says WaPo should have been much more forthright about Trump's lies and “needed to call them that from the very beginning” — Martin Baron, the executive editor of the Washington Post, is retiring. In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, he talks about the Trump years …
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@nealboudette, @froomkin, @kniggem, @ericboehlert, @nycsouthpaw, @froomkin, @soledadobrien, @mathewi, @froomkin, @azi, @mpitzke, @froomkin and @scarylawyerguy
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
WSJ launches The Wall Street Journal News Literacy Initiative, to help its “increasingly digital” readership differentiate between news and opinion sections — There's an old joke at The Wall Street Journal that subscribers get “two newspapers for the price of one.”
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Poynter, Talking Biz News, American Press Institute, @niemanlab, @brucebartlett, @niemanlab, @niemanlab and @rocza
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
Editor of Current Affairs magazine Nathan Robinson says Guardian fired him as a columnist for sending a tweet about US military aid to Israel — It is widely recognized that critics of Israel, no matter how well-founded the criticism, are routinely punished by both public and private institutions for their speech.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
A deep look at the media law defense strategy that the Murdochs' Fox News plans to use against Smartmatic in court — The Rupert Murdoch-owned news network has filed a motion to dismiss Smartmatic's blockbuster libel action. Now and down the road, the defendant will attempt …
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, @zeeshanaleem, @jonathanwpeters, Poynter, @kazweida, @dylanbyers, @jayrosen_nyu, Quartz and Washington Post
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
NYT appoints Rebecca Blumenstein to a newly created role as a “partner” to the publisher A. G. Sulzberger to help him run newsroom operations — Ms. Blumenstein will report to the publisher, helping to oversee newsroom operations and becoming a frequent public representative for The Times.
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@marclacey, @mjw, @nytimesbusiness and @nbj914
Politico:
Polish independent media suspended news coverage on Wednesday to protest a new advertising tax that it says is aimed at undermining the freedom of the press — Media groups warn government is trying to undermine press freedom. — WARSAW — Polish independent media suspended news coverage …
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BBC, @hannakozlowska, @astroehlein, @mariawilczek, Financial Times, @chrislashhist, @baphometx, @tomtugendhat, @notesfrompoland, @maximeristavi, @notesfrompoland, @chrislashhist, @danieltilles1, @mycielski, @zecsaky, @vivian, @notesfrompoland, Byline Times, @danieltilles1 and @ruleoflawpl
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Court records show three journalists investigating a murder-for-hire site stumbled on and thwarted an alleged murder attempt in Wisconsin — The message allegedly sent in a shadowy corner of the Internet was chillingly blunt: The man has dark brown hair and blue eyes. He's 5 feet 5 inches tall.
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@lizrenzetti and @marisa_iati
Will Dunn / New Statesman:
The New Statesman says its paid digital subs grew 75% in 2020 and print subs grew 12%; registrations grew 83% to 200K after removing programmatic ads in July — The New Statesman now has more subscribers than at any point in the past 40 years. — The New Statesman grew its paid …
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@dannywsw8, @lordrickettsp, @pronouncedalva and @semcbain
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
This January, NYT's newsletter The Morning, which launched in May 2020, crossed 1B+ unique opens; readers opened 3.6B+ newsletters from NYT in 2020, up 150% YoY — The New York Times' flagship morning newsletter The Morning hit a milestone in January 2021: over 1 billion unique opens since it launched in May 2020.
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