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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Quartz CEO Zach Seward says the outlet is dropping its paywall after three years, focusing on “the right kind of subscription”; Quartz has ~25K subscribers — Co-founder Zach Seward says site will focus on ‘right kind of subscription’ as it tries to build traffic and influence
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Axios:
Fox News says it didn't authorize the verified account on Truth Social; unverified accounts for TMZ and others have been on Truth Social for months but are bots — Just days after a verified account for Fox News appeared on former President Trump's social media app, Truth Social …
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Dave Cantor / Poynter:
Vox Media signs advertising partnerships with Gastropod and The Longform Podcast and will roll out subscription audio for more of its podcasts — Digitally-focused media companies are consolidating brands. What benefits will be reaped from those actions remain to be seen.
The Washington Post Guild:
The Washington Post Guild releases a report on diversity and retention at the company, saying WaPo operates systems that create and perpetuate inequalities — We began this project nearly two years ago, as our world, nation and workplace were wrestling with the questions that have come to define our recent history.
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
YouTube Shorts now lets creators splice in 1- to 5-second clips from long-form videos and Shorts, after previously allowing them to add only short audio clips — Creators can use clips from YouTube's billions of videos in their own content — Creators making YouTube Shorts will now be able …
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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
India's ban on Chinese apps, including TikTok, has allowed homegrown short-video apps like Josh to thrive; Josh has 150M+ MAUs and a $5B valuation as of April — Jiya Kiran Valambhia's success story as a social media influencer is a familiar one in the age of TikTok.
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Bobby Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Saad Mohseni, founder and CEO of Moby Group, owner of Afghanistan's TOLO TV, on hosting debates between Taliban factions, rise in female staff, more — This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the world's most pressing policy challenges.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Texas Tribune plans to hire reporters outside of big Texas cities, including its first Report for America fellow, seeking to broaden perspective on state policy — Texas, as you might have heard, is quite big. Even a semi-recent transplant, the Texas Tribune's editor-in-chief Sewell Chan …
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
MLB renews its deal with YouTube to stream 15 baseball games this season; the league also has streaming deals with Apple TV+ and Peacock — The site will be home to 15 games in the 2022 season as MLB continues to cast a wide net with streamers. — Major League Baseball continues to hit to all fields with its streaming partnerships.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Source: CNN+ passed 100K subscribers in its first week; the most popular shows so far are Chris Wallace's daily interview show and 5 Things with Kate Bolduan — Under pressure from new owner Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. to justify its costs, CNN's streaming service eclipsed 100,000 subscribers …
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal — Critics argue the bitcoin and ethereum networks consume too much energy. — More than 200 long-time Wikipedia editors have requested …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Archivero, launched by two Mexican journalists last month to unearth old stories by requesting historic public records and having them declassified — On May 15, 1992, Rosalino Sánchez Félix, better known as Chalino Sánchez, was performing his first sold-out show in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
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