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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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Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
A closer look at the lead up to the implosion at Current Affairs, which the EIC calls “a horrible call in judgment”, and the uncertain aftermath for the outlet — The staff of Current Affairs announced Wednesday morning that they had been fired by their boss …
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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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Shirley Zhao / Bloomberg:
A look at Hong Kong-based streamer Viu: operates in 16 markets, $62M revenue in H1, and second to Disney+ by paid subscribers in SE Asia, per a research firm — - Streaming service trails only Disney Plus in Southeast Asia — Hybrid model of partly free, partly paid content paid off
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Lauren Williams / @laurenwilliams:
Capital B, a Black-focused non-profit national news organization, will open its first local newsroom in Atlanta — In honor of the start of #NABJ21, some Black journalism news: @ko_616 and I are excited to announce that our first local Capital B newsroom will be in Atlanta. Here's why Atlanta is a perfect city to begin our journey:
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Tencent Music's Q2 subscription revenue grew 32.8% YoY to $277M and it expects to add 4M-5M subs per quarter, despite a ban on exclusive licensing agreements — The company is downplaying the loss of exclusive music on its platform following a July 26 crackdown by the Chinese government.
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
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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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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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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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