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Sources: US subscriber growth at Disney+ has slowed sharply, with 38M total subs in North America as of early July, compared to 37M at the start of February — U.S. subscriber growth at Disney's Disney+ streaming service slowed sharply in the past few months, according to internal data reviewed …
Emily VanDerWerff / Vox:
How Isabel Fall published, and unpublished, a sci-fi story reclaiming a transphobic meme, receiving praise and then harsh Twitter censure that upended her life — Isabel Fall's sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.
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Wall Street Journal:
Gettr has ties to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, who is involved with GTV Media Group and other disinformation networks in the US; sources: Gettr raised $30M — Political operative says his free-speech-focused platform has secured financial support from entity close to fugitive Chinese businessman
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Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture
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Stephen Fowler / NPR:
How The Georgia Star News, a site launched after the 2020 election as part of pro-Trump Star News Network, pushes election misinfo, aided by talk radio shows — If you don't follow politics in Georgia closely - or even if you do - you might be forgiven for not knowing much about The Georgia Star News.
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Esther Kezia Thorpe / Media Voices Podcast:
Defector, the employee-owned site launched nine months ago by former Deadspin staffers, now has 39K paying subscribers; ~95% of revenue comes from subscriptions — “Stick to sports”. An edict that caused a mass editorial exit from G/O Media-owned Deadspin toward the end of 2019.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
The Village Voice has hired former CEO of Hampton's lifestyle publication Dan's Papers, Steven McKenna, as CRO, with plans to launch a print edition next year — The Village Voice, which has been hard to find on newsstands since 2017, has hired the former CEO of Dan's Papers with bold plans …
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Sen. Warren asks CFTC to probe Google's “Project Bernanke”, a secret program that allegedly gave Google's own ad-buying system an edge by leveraging past bids — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling on a federal watchdog to investigate Google for alleged abusive behavior in advertising …
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Jonathan Zittrain / The Atlantic:
A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently — Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Interviews with 60 Americans in spring 2020 found most distrusted media but watched TV news more than usual and trusted their abilities to corroborate reports — Imagine dozens of Americans of different political and socioeconomic backgrounds in a room, looking for common ground.
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Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Meghan McCain to depart The View at the end of the season after nearly four years — Meghan McCain is departing “The View,” after nearly four years on the ABC daytime show, Variety has confirmed. — As the panel's resident conservative talking head, McCain regularly sparred with her co-hosts …
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Raleigh News & Observer:
UNC trustees voted to approve tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones after controversy over her hire without tenure as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism — Listen to our daily briefing: — UNC-Chapel Hill trustees voted to approve tenure for distinguished journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Simulmedia launches playerWON, which lets developers offer players in-game perks in exchange for watching 15- or 30-second ads in gaming consoles and PCs — After months of testing, marketers are finally going to be able to start running video ads within console and PC games.
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