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Sara Fischer / Axios:
NPR plans to launch a podcast subscription service that will let listeners directly support their favorite podcasts and get sponsorship-free versions thereof — Podcasts have historically been open and freely distributed, but new subscription offerings for podcasts from Apple and Spotify aim to challenge that status quo.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches paid podcast subscriptions for creators in the US, at no cost to creators for two years and a 5% fee starting in spring 2023 — Spotify today is officially rolling out paid podcast subscriptions, after first unveiling its new subscription platform at the company's “Stream On” event in February.
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Spotify, The Verge, Axios, New York Post, RAIN News, The Publish Press 💬, @bgurley, AppleInsider, Hot Pod News, @budelliott3, @mrasquith, Protocol, @osulop, Variety, @ashleyrcarman, The Wrap, @pkafka, Engadget and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook rolls out a miniplayer that will allow Facebook users to stream music and podcasts from Spotify through the Facebook app on iOS or Android
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Spotify, @spotifynews, Hot Pod News, @ashleyrcarman, @chrisbrogan, @lanceulanoff, Boing Boing, The Verge, @martinsfp, @pkafka, RAIN News, The Verge and Variety
Angela Fu / Poynter:
NewsGuild study of 14 unionized Gannett newsrooms finds ~$10K median wage gap between men and women and a ~$5K wage gap between POC journalists and white ones — The median salary for women of color was $15,727 less than the median salary for white men. — The median salaries of women …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Meadowlark Media, led by ESPN vets Dan Le Batard and John Skipper, signs a distribution deal with DraftKings, one of its investors; sources: deal's worth $50M+ — Digital sports entertainment and gaming company pushes further into media realm with $50 million deal
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Engadget, The Athletic, Hollywood Reporter, AllAccess.com and OutKick
Epicurious:
Epicurious says beef will no longer appear in new recipes, articles, or newsletters as well as on its homepage and Instagram feed for climate-related reasons — In an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking, we won't be publishing new beef recipes on Epicurious.
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CNN, @epicurious, The Wrap, The Guardian, Mediaite, @jaredlholt, Gizmodo, @kate_h_taylor, @nataliesurely, @rarohde, HEATED, @jbillinson, @ketanj0, @everywhereist, @alexisohanian, @sonnybunch, @condenast, @dhiott, Sean Hannity, New York Post and The Hill
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
Turner Sports picked up NHL's second TV package as part of a deal worth up to $225M per year, after NBC pulled out of the bidding — Turner Sports picked up the remaining package of NHL media rights as part of a deal worth up to $225M per year. The agreement will push the NHL's rights-fee haul …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Q&A with Reuters CMO Josh London on launching a paywall, competition with Bloomberg and WSJ, why readers will pay for “news in context”, and more — Global news agency Reuters is confident readers will pay for “news in context” as it prepares to compete with Bloomberg …
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@mikelizun and @reuterspr
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Current and ex-Insider reporters say its system for measuring metrics is like a “hamster wheel” that forces stressed reporters to cannibalize each other's work — In any media company, newsrooms are inherently responsible for monitoring audience metrics and achieving growth …
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
With iPhone's privacy changes, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than via third parties, giving its ad business an edge — Under the iPhone maker's new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties
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AppleInsider, The Verge, VentureBeat, @asharma, @susanedub, @sarthakgh, @seyitaylor, The Drum, Vox and INQUIRER.net USA, more at Techmeme »
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple rolls out iOS and iPadOS 14.5 with App Tracking Transparency, which requires apps to get permission to track user activity on other apps for ad purposes
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Wall Street Journal, One Man & His Blog, @dcseifert, @joannastern, @anthony, @tomwarren, WWD, @wadhwa, @jacknicas, Ars Technica, @puiwingtam, AppleInsider, ScreenRant, ZDNet and TechCrunch
Allegra Hobbs / Study Hall:
Journalists reflect on the heavy responsibility of writing obituaries now, when some deaths are inevitably connected to the larger news story of the pandemic — Maureen O'Donnell, obituary writer for the Chicago Sun-Times of roughly a decade, is giving me a rundown of some of her memorable work when …
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Disney will close 18 TV channels in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong on October 1, as its rollout of Disney+ continues with a Hong Kong launch coming this year — Disney is to close 18 TV channels in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong as the conglomerate puts a greater emphasis on direct-to-consumer streaming.
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Kidscreen and @richlightshed
Elian Peltier / New York Times:
Two Spanish journalists have been killed in Burkina Faso while filming an anti-poaching documentary; a third journalist may have been abducted and killed too — The journalists were filming a documentary about anti-poaching patrol in the Western African nation when their patrol was ambushed.
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The Guardian, Reuters and Al Jazeera
New York Times:
This year's Oscars, a TV broadcast about films mostly distributed on the internet, was a celebration of diversity as nine of 20 acting nominations went to POC — Chloé Zhao's film about the damaged American dream won best picture, best director and best actress.
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Mónica Marie Zorrilla / Variety:
Early Nielsen numbers show 2021 Oscars drew 9.85M viewers, a drop of 58.3% from last year
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