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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Memo: NYT's Dean Baquet tells staff Twitter presence is “purely optional”, to “meaningfully reduce” time on the site, and attacking colleagues is “not allowed”  —  - NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet said in a memo that Twitter is now “purely optional” for staffers.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet on the details behind the company's Twitter policy, as he encourages staffers to tweet less and report more  —  “Tweet less, tweet more thoughtfully, and devote more time to reporting,” says executive editor Dean Baquet.
Choire Sicha / New York Magazine:
NYT's policy on Twitter is right: Twitter provides feedback on journalists' value but it can prompt self-censorship and is where anecdotes are mistaken for data  —  Today, New York Times honcho Dean Baquet ordered a company-wide “reset” in how his staff should think about Twitter.
Jon Marcus / AARP:
Report for America launches an Experienced Corps for older and retired journalists to serve as editors and mentors in pared-down newsrooms  —  They're filling the gaps in community news while learning skills and earning money  —  ChrisAnna Mink was 60 when she started her second career …
The New York Times Company:
Lydia Polgreen returns to The New York Times as an opinion columnist from Spotify podcast studio Gimlet, where she has been managing director  —  Opinion announces that Lydia Polgreen is returning to The New York Times as an Opinion columnist.  —  Few journalists have had as peripatetic a life and career as Lydia Polgreen.
Variety:
Source: JB Perrette will run Discovery's streaming businesses and Kathleen Finch will oversee its cable networks, except HBO, CNN, and Magnolia, post-merger  —  Zaslav, as longtime observers predicted, has opted to have a direct-report relationship with the leaders of the businesses …
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Le Monde, which has 425K digital subscribers, launches an English version of its site and plans to hit 1M subs in two to three years, with 25% in English  —  French newspaper Le Monde is launching an English version of its website on Thursday to win over international subscribers in the runup …
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Parcast union reaches tentative first agreement with Spotify and Parcast management, averting a strike, with deal terms expected to be similar to Gimlet's  —  The agreement seemingly averts a threatened strike, but now the bargaining unit and the Writers Guild of America, East Council must approve its terms.
Discussion: Variety and The Wrap
New Jersey Hills:
New Jersey Hills Media Group, composed of 14 print weeklies, converts to nonprofit ownership by the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media  —  The nonprofit Corporation for New Jersey Local Media (CNJLM) has assumed ownership of the New Jersey Hills Media Group, ensuring the future …
Discussion: Media Nation and The Rural Blog
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at the creation of USA Today's free graphic novel, “An eviction crisis for Black women”, that accompanies a 4,000-word subscriber-only investigation  —  There's been a lot of talk about the need to experiment with new forms in journalism, especially to reach younger and historically underserved audiences.
 
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at CNN's war-time staffing in Ukraine, with nearly 80 people on the ground and nearly a dozen CNN anchors hosting shows from Ukraine
Linley Sanders / YouGov:
YouGov survey of 1,500 Americans: the most trusted news orgs by the left and right are the Weather Channel (52%), PBS (41%), the BBC (39%), and the WSJ (37%)
Associated Press:
A Turkish court transfers the trial of 26 Saudis accused of murdering Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, raising fears they won't be brought to justice
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Reuters:
President Obrador says Mexico's government will channel a quarter of its publicity budget, about $37M, into health insurance and pensions for poorer journalists
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Tencent will shut down its game streaming service Penguin Esports on June 7, more than a year after China blocked a Tencent-led merger between Huya and DouYu
Discussion: TechCrunch
Sara Fischer / Axios:
First Look Media, The Intercept's parent company, lays off 20 people due to pandemic-related setbacks, per a note to staff from CEO Michael Bloom and a source
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Media critic and Press Run founder Eric Boehlert, who wrote for Media Matters for America, Salon, Rolling Stone, and Billboard, dies in a bike accident at 57
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
A parody condemns Substack's VP of comms after she said Twitter staff “worried about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech... please do not come work here.”
 

 
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023

Alexander Martin / The Record:
The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so

Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg:
Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam

 
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