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John Koblin / New York Times:
Nielsen announces a new metric, The Gauge, to measure streaming viewing in ~14,000 US homes via hardware that watches internet traffic passing through a router — The company known for measuring television ratings said Netflix and YouTube are far ahead of their digital rivals …
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@kerrymflynn:
Insider internal memo: all posts must now be under 600 words, except for those from the investigations team, features writers, and a few other exceptions — A new editorial strategy at Insider: Limiting most stories to under 600 words, per Nicholas Carlson memo “Data shows that [our readers] like short stories... It's OK (and even encouraged!) to write several posts on the same topic from several angles when you have a lot to say.” https://twitter.com/...
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: WSJ will shutter its Greater New York section in print and digital and launch a Life & Work section and Speed & Trending desk — Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the following on Thursday:
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Janet Malcolm, author and New Yorker staff writer, has died of lung cancer — Her subjects ranged widely, but she took special aim at journalism itself, writing that every journalist “knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” — Janet Malcolm, a longtime writer for The New Yorker …
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: NYT and The Athletic have ended their acquisition talks because the companies couldn't agree on a price — The New York Times and subscription sports news site The Athletic have ended their acquisition talks, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Awful Announcing, @sizpatel, @akidnamedjimmy, @rafat and @pkafka
Natacha Yazbeck / Columbia Journalism Review:
The stringers who help news organizations in Syria face physical, institutional, and economic precarity — On February 22, 2012, journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik were killed in a government attack on a media center in Baba Amr, Syria. On August 19, 2014 …
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@towcenter, @bzelizer, @zainaerhaim and Reuters
Samantha Grasso / Discourse Blog:
BuzzFeed's Summer Writers' Challenge, which pays $10,000 for posts with 4M+ page views, sets the bar so high that most writers will still be working for free — For every prize-winning post, countless other writers will work for free and never get a cent. — BuzzFeed has done nothing to me personally (that I know of).
Ryan Barwick / Morning Brew:
Study: 48% of ad traffic on “fake” news sites is served by Google and 32% on “low credibility sites” like Breitbart, Drudge Report, and Sputnik News — It's about a third for"low credibility" sites. … Fake news is a problem. Yet the sites that publish …
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@drivenbyboredom, @martyswant, @joshsternberg and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Spotify has acquired Podz, a podcast discovery startup whose tech helps podcasters promote their show using ML to select 60-second clips of key moments — Podcasts are all the rage, but podcast discovery is a challenge. Today, Spotify announced its acquisition of Podz …
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Spotify, 9to5Mac, @rasmuszwickson, @producthunt, @eyevariety and AppleInsider
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Greenroom, an app that lets Spotify users worldwide join or host live audio rooms and turn those conversations into podcasts
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
MSNBC employees to form a union representing ~315 workers, including producers, bookers, writers, fact checkers, represented by Writers Guild of America, East — Employees at MSNBC, the 24-hour cable news channel with a slate of prominent liberal anchors, said on Thursday that they planned …
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Eight companies, including Comcast, Charter, Altice, and Dish, have created Go Addressable, a consortium to simplify and scale the fragmented TV ad market — Comcast, Charter Communications and Vizio, among others, have created a consortium to identify ways to simplify and scale an increasingly complex TV ad business
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
INN survey: nearly two-thirds of nonprofit news outlets saw more giving via foundations and individuals in 2020; the number of small contributions rose ~50% YoY — Despite the chaos and uncertainty of 2020, it was a year of journalistic and financial growth for the nonprofit news industry …
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