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Tony Webster / Minnesota Reformer:
Minnesota federal judge bars Minnesota state law enforcement from using force against journalists or ordering them to disperse while covering protests — A Minnesota federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Minnesota state law enforcement from using force against journalists …
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Adrianna Rodriguez / USA Today:
Journalists covering MN protests on Friday say state and local police rounded them up and photographed their faces and IDs before release, despite a court order — Journalists covering a protest in a Minneapolis suburb Friday night were forced on their stomachs by law enforcement …
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Al Jazeera, Star Tribune, The Hill, @coralhei, @jeremyjojola, @nicole_carroll, @cathywurzer, Twin Cities and @matthewkeyslive
Jeff Benson / Decrypt:
An NFT combining Edward Snowden's image and pages of a court ruling on surveillance sold for $5.45M in Ethereum; proceeds go to Freedom of the Press Foundation — An NFT artwork created by Edward Snowden has sold for $5.4 million in Ethereum. — “Stay Free” portrays the NSA whistleblower …
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@snowden, @snowden, @kimdotcom, @haydenzadams, @trevortimm, @freedomofpress, Gizmodo, NFT Fetch, Freedom of the Press … and The Verge
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
AP will soon begin auctioning off NFT-backed digital art files based on iconic photos and event coverage; Time magazine is exploring more blockchain integration — The New York Times, Time, and the AP have racked up six-figure sales of digital assets that could be a future revenue stream—or the next bubble to burst.
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@harrymccracken, @charlottetklein, @miriamelder, @joshsternberg, @miriamelder, @mlcalderone and Decrypt
The New York Times Company:
NYT's Choire Sicha is stepping down as Styles editor to become a senior editor working on expanding the paper's newsletter portfolio — After a great run leading the Styles section, Choire is taking on a new challenge to help expand our newsletter portfolio. Read more in this note from Dean Baquet, Joe Kahn and Sam Sifton.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: Hansjörg Wyss has withdrawn from bidding for Tribune Publishing; Stewart Bainum seeks new financing to pursue the ownership of the newspaper chain — Hansjörg Wyss was part of a serious offer for the major newspaper chain that could have prevented it from being sold to the hedge fund Alden Global Capital.
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Looking at payment per stream metrics for music streaming services can be misleading when considering artist pay, as many factors determine streaming royalties — Early Friday, Apple Music sent a carefully worded letter to artists, music labels and publishers that briefly explained …
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
In a letter to artists, Apple says it pays a penny per stream, roughly double Spotify, which pays an average of about one-third to half a penny per stream
In a letter to artists, Apple says it pays a penny per stream, roughly double Spotify, which pays an average of about one-third to half a penny per stream
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Rick Thames / Business North Carolina:
Profile of Rolfe Neill, Charlotte Observer publisher from 1975 to 1997, reflecting on when the paper had 260 journalists and on the future with a smaller staff — As newspapers' influence crested, publisher Rolfe Neill played a pivotal role in Charlotte's emergence.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Study: political campaign ad spending on CTV grew from 5% of budgets in 2018 to 20% in 2020 as TV money seems to have been shifted to better target voters — Political advertising has quickly begun to migrate over to connected TV (CTV), or digital and streaming television, according to new data.
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Firefox and major Chromium browsers like Edge, Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi are not joining FLoC, Google's proposed ad technology to replace third-party cookies — Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, and Mozilla are all out — Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies.
Kristin Robinson / Variety:
As Spotify turns 15, a look at the ways in which it changed how people listen to music, like breaking down boundaries between genres through “mood playlists” — Ask any executive what the music business was like in the '00s and their face may take on an expression more commonly associated …
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@mrjonburk, @claudiusboller, @firstcom_music, @wordsbykristin and @thatericalper, more at Techmeme »
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
Crypto-focused media startup The Block says it has bought out all non-employee shareholders as it wants “to be disentangled” from VCs to cover them without bias — The Block, a cryptocurrency-focused media startup, tells Axios that it has bought out its non-employee shareholders …
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@dj, @danprimack, @dogetoshi, @alex, @mayazi, @bobbyong, @cmsholdings, @jameswester, @matt_odell, @tanayamac and @ryan_browne_