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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sources: Ozy Media co-founder Samir Rao impersonated a YouTube exec on a Goldman Sachs call ahead of a $40M deal; Rao is back at Ozy after time off — The digital media company has raised eyebrows for its claims about its audience size for years. Then came the strange voice on the phone.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says it will cut YouTube TV's fee by $10/month and drop NBCUniversal channels if it can't reach a deal with NBCU by September 30 — Another carriage fight has burst into public view: NBCUniversal on Sunday said it was notifying customers with YouTube TV that more than 14 of its networks …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at NYT's trust-and-innovation project, one of several newsroom initiatives unfolding amid speculation over who will succeed Executive Editor Dean Baquet — On a mission for 10 million paying customers, the paper has formed a new team to help ensure confidence in its journalism …
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Wall Street Journal:
Spotify begins a campaign to win more advertisers, rebranding its ad business as Spotify Advertising, focusing on SMBs, and expanding its podcast marketplace — The audiostreaming company wants to appeal to new advertisers and publishers in a new campaign titled “All Ears on You”
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Axios Local says it is planning to expand into 11 new markets by Q3 2022, for a total of 23, and its 14 newsletters have about 400K subscribers — Axios is popping up local news-focused newsletters across the country, with ambitious plans to be in 23 markets in 2022.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Mississippi Free Press, a nonprofit committed to solutions-based journalism that launched in March 2020, had little choice but to focus on the pandemic — On the Mississippi Free Press' birthday, publisher Kimberly Griffin headlined her summary of what the new nonprofit news organization …
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Charlotte Ricca / Digital Content Next:
Behind Vox Media's acquisition of the Hot Pod newsletter, which it plans to keep at its $7/month subscription price, and how it intends to grow its audience — There is no doubt the media industry can be pretty cutthroat. Publishers are always looking for new ways to generate revenue …
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Ruth Reader / Fast Company:
GoodRx debuts GoodRx Health, a site with a 50-person editorial team aiming to give better answers to the most googled health questions than sites like WebMD — Cheap prescription-drugs platform GoodRx is getting into the content business. The company is debuting GoodRx Health …
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Gilad Edelman / Wired:
The social media industry needs its own version of journalism's firewall to shield safety, moderation, and enforcement decisions from execs focused on growth — Government regulation will never fix everything wrong with online discourse. The industry needs to develop professional norms—just as journalism once did.
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Geoff Dembicki / VICE:
News Corp. has documented its carbon emissions cuts and climate-change risk mitigation since 2006, even as many of its outlets deny the phenomenon — Murdoch's News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.
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Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes:
[Thread] Jere Hester, founding EIC of The City in NYC, is leaving to return to CUNY's journalism school; the site is searching for a replacement — So, we have news: https://www.thecity.nyc/...
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Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Q&A with Gizmodo reporter Shoshana Wodinksy, on covering online advertising and data privacy issues and why adtech is dense and dull on purpose — This is the longest Q&A I've ever done here on Galaxy Brain. There's quite a bit, here. But I think it's worth the read. Let me explain why.
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