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Spotify launches Spotify Greenroom, a new app that allows Spotify users worldwide to join or host live audio rooms, and turn those conversations into podcasts — In March, Spotify announced it was acquiring the company behind the sports-focused audio app Locker Room to help speed its entry into the live audio market.
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ScreenRant, Variety, The Verge, Spotify, @goldman, @chrismaddern, @joonian, @mattnavarra, 9to5Mac, @richlightshed, Engadget and musically.com, more at Techmeme »


AP will no longer name suspects in minor crime stories but will keep naming suspects in stories on active fugitive searches and significant crimes like murder — John Daniszewski — AP will no longer name suspects in minor crime stories, which we sometimes cover and pick …
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@farnoushamiri, Associated Press, @shaunarempel, The Rural Blog, The Hill, Boing Boing, @jbmoorephoto, @elizaorlins, @scotthech, @evalois, @aditrao, @nhannahjones, @noahhurowitz, @elienyc, @kellyvaughen, @lovingoodtv, @katmckinley, @claudio_report, @ciciadams_, @bakari_sellers, @sifill_ldf, The Week, Fox News and The Wrap


GB News, which launched in the UK with a mission to produce “anti-woke” US-style news content, faces an advertiser backlash as Ikea and Nivea pull their ads — Ikea, Grolsch and Kopparberg have suspended adverts due to station's perceived conflict with their values
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@jimwaterson, @aljwhite, Press Gazette, @marinahyde, The Daily Beast, @benyt, The Independent, Deadline, The Drum, @pressgazette, Guido Fawkes, @hsouthwellfe, @ayaan, @afneil, @emporersnewc, @prork, @duncanweldon and Reclaim The Net


Biden's administration has granted The 19th, which launched last year and has fewer than 30 employees, more access than many larger and established outlets — With help from Allie Bice and Daniel Payne — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.
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@eramshaw, @tiffanydcross, @eramshaw, @joyannreid, @jmsummers and New York Times


Apple Podcasts Subscriptions go live globally, letting subscribers unlock additional benefits; Apple takes a 30% cut in the first year and 15% in the second — Apple Podcasts Subscriptions are now live across more than 170 countries and regions, Apple announced this morning.
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Financial Times, Apple, The Verge, hotpodnews.com, @tedhosmann, @zkahn, @kerrymflynn, @nwquah, ScreenRant, RAIN News, Variety and MacRumors


NYT's oral history of Pentagon Papers includes an interview with researcher Linda Amster, whose name was left out of credits, allegedly due to risk of prison — Linda Amster says that her husband bore the “brunt” of her outrage when she looked at her copy of the New York Times on Sunday, June 13, 1971.
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@jswatz and @gadflymovie


Examining the commercialization of ideas and interactions via newsletters, NFTs, and tip jars, where money empowers but reduces expression to mere commerce — That's not just a tweet; that's your original idea and your intellectual property, and maybe you can sell it.


Mashable EIC Jessica Coen joins Morning Brew as chief content officer and will lead Morning Brew's expansion into new business lines, like events and video — Mashable editor-in-chief Jessica Coen is joining Morning Brew as chief content officer, Axios has learned. She will report to CEO Austin Rief.
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@jessicacoen, @tysonhutchins_, @axios, @jyarow, @devin_tomb, @micahgrimes, @joshsternberg, @steakscience, @neal_freyman, @austin_rief and Talking Biz News


Private equity firm Platinum Equity plans to buy textbook publisher McGraw Hill from Apollo Global Management in a deal valued around $4.5B, including debt — Deal for the textbook publisher is valued at about $4.5 billion, including debt — Private-equity firm Platinum Equity has struck …
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@tonywan and Publishers Lunch


Sky News Australia will launch a dedicated, free-to-air regional channel in August with plans to reach up to 7M viewers — The channel says it will reach up to 7 million regional viewers after striking free-to-air deals with Win and Southern Cross Austereo.
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@thetowncrier and @saffronhowden


Challenger, Gray & Christmas data: about 960 newsroom jobs have been lost so far this year, down 91% from 10,576 cuts through the same period last year — Media job cuts are down 91% from this time last year.
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American Press Institute, @ketchcast, @digitalshields and @raju


Oversight Board takes its first policy opinion request from Facebook, on the sharing of residential info, which Facebook says can be relevant for journalism — Today, the Board announced it has accepted a policy advisory opinion request from Facebook on the sharing of private residential information.