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Ethan Zuckerman:
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions — What content is popular on Facebook? — This is a surprisingly difficult - and very important - question to answer.
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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Facebook, for the first time, shares a report on the most widely viewed domains, links, posts, and Pages on Facebook in the US during Q2 — A video of two cats walking, tails intertwined, looking like the best of friends. A resource site for Green Bay Packers alumni.
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Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:
Memo: 65 families of NYT colleagues, with 128 people, have made it out of Afghanistan, and NYT plans to find ways to cover the country under Taliban rule — Here's the note from NYT's @meslackman to staff tonight on our colleagues from Afghanistan https://twitter.com/...
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A group of 13 people made up of WaPo staff and families, including Afghan journalists, has left Kabul; the status of others who work for NYT and WSJ is unclear
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David Rohde / New Yorker:
A New Yorker executive editor recounts trying and failing to get Tahir Luddi, an Afghan journalist who helped him escape the Taliban 12 years ago, out of Kabul
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@lyta_gold:
Current Affairs editor says EIC Nathan Robinson fired most of the staff because they were trying to organize into a worker's co-op — I am grieved to tell you that @nathanjrobinson has effectively fired me & most of the @curaffairs staff because we were trying to organize into a worker's co-op. This isn't a bit. I wish it was. https://drive.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
An Apple leaker says 9to5Mac's Guilherme Rambo paid him around $500 in bitcoin for leaked data from a stolen iPhone XR prototype in 2018 — A reporter for 9to5Mac paid a source in exchange for data extracted from a stolen iPhone prototype. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Vulture:
An investigation attempts to find the person, perhaps a literary scout, trying to trick writers and editors into sharing unpublished book manuscripts since 2016 — On the morning of March 1, 2017, Catherine Mörk and Linda Altrov Berg were in the offices of Norstedts, a book publisher in Sweden …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBCUniversal was unhappy that BuzzFeed's SPAC deal valued it at just $1.5B, below its 2016 valuation, but approved the deal after Peretti's concessions — Chief Executive Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed signed off on terms that could put more pressure on the company if its shares don't rise.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Podcasters say Apple Podcasts Connect, a requirement for using its new subscriptions product, is buggy and has a confusing UI — In April, Apple Podcasts was poised to revolutionize the industry. It announced in-app subscriptions, as well as an entirely new backend, representing …
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Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
Profile of DDoSecrets, a transparency collective that stands apart from WikiLeaks and others through its commitment to provide information useful to journalists — As Freddy Martinez tracked the latest impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Twitter, he saw a screencap of a CNN broadcast that struck him as odd.
Ross Barkan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Most early pandemic media coverage of Andrew Cuomo inflated his reputation by focusing on style, not substance, raising questions about media values — The reckoning for Governor Andrew Cuomo arrived last week. Beset by sexual harassment and assault allegations exhaustively detailed …
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Adam Jacobson / Radio & Television Business Report:
National Association of Broadcasters Show to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination, no face mask requirement; no digital log-in option will be available — It's official: With under two months until the start of the first NAB Show since spring 2019, and associated co-located events …
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Amelia Tait / VICE:
A look at the genre of articles in UK media about millennials who bought houses, usually with family help, and how the writers aren't just seeking hate clicks — We spoke to the writers of these kind of articles, and asked the young homeowners who agree to take part to ask them, “Why?” — Amelia Tait
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