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2:10 PM ET, October 29, 2021

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Nieman Lab:
Survey of 500 Nieman Lab readers on why they canceled news subscriptions: 31% due to money, 30% due to ideology, 13% because content wasn't satisfactory  —  What was the last news subscription you canceled, and why?  —  Media Twitter may be full of people threatening to cancel their …
Wall Street Journal:
WSJ's editorial board defends publishing a letter from Trump, saying Trump is making election rigging claims elsewhere, so “we hardly did him a special favor”  —  His 2020 monomania is news, and it reflects on his fitness for 2024.  —  By The Editorial Board
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Critics accuse WSJ of amplifying misinformation after it publishes a 600-word letter to the editor from Trump, filled with debunked claims of election fraud
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC to appoint external investigators that will seek evidence from the public and lobby groups to assess the impartiality of contentious topic coverage  —  The BBC is to appoint external investigators to assess the impartiality of its coverage of contentious topics.
Caleb Pershan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Yahoo, Yahoo Finance, and Markets Insider ran 100+ sponsored articles syndicated from finance outlet Benzinga without disclosing it was paid content  —  June 22 was a great day for Alfi, Inc, a tech company in Miami Beach, Florida, which sells facial recognition advertising software.
Discussion: @cjr
Nikhil Kurian Nainan / Reuters:
Australia's competition regulator allows a group representing 261 radio stations to negotiate payments from Facebook and Google for the stations' news content  —  Australia's competition regulator allowed a body representing 261 radio stations to negotiate a content deal with Facebook (FB.O) …
Discussion: Mumbrella and RadioInfo Australia
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
More than 80% of the ~250 eligible US Politico and E&E News staff have signed up with NewsGuild and are asking Axel Springer for recognition as the PEN Guild  —  - Unions says 80% of eligible U.S. employees have signed up  — Journalists at Politico, E&E News to make requests on Friday
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out Super Follow for select creators globally on iOS, after previously limiting the feature to the US and Canada  —  Twitter is rolling out the ability for all iOS users globally to Super Follow select creators.  The option was previously only available to users in the U.S. and Canada.
Discussion: Andreessen Horowitz
Damon Beres / Wired:
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years  —  Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts.  They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent.
BBC:
BBC says an article about lesbians and trans women went through a “rigorous editorial process” after 16K people signed a letter protesting the piece  —  More than 16,000 people have signed an open letter calling on the BBC to apologise for an online news article about trans women and lesbians.
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Court filing: the operator of Locast, which streamed TV broadcast channels for free, agrees to pay $32M and stay shut down to resolve copyright claims  —  (Reuters) - The operator of over-the-air streaming service Locast has agreed to pay $32 million and end its operations for good to resolve claims …
 
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Plug, a news outlet founded by data journalist Sherrell Dorsey, which reports on Black and brown tech founders, startups, and tech's impact
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
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Jennifer Dunham / Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ's Global Impunity Index finds that since 2011, 278 journalists have been murdered worldwide and no one has been convicted in 226 of the cases
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