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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl plans to leave in early 2023 after 12+ years as a senior executive; Google veteran Mary Ellen Coe will replace him — Robert Kyncl will exit YouTube in early 2023 after more than 12 years as a senior exec at video giant.
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@rkyncl, Billboard, The Wrap, Music Business Worldwide, Tubefilter, @film_girl, @mhbergen, @mhbergen, @richlightshed, @susanwojcicki and The Hollywood Reporter
Calder McHugh / Politico:
A profile of Jelani Cobb, the Columbia Journalism School's new dean, as some say journalism schools feel slightly anachronistic and students worry about debt — Everyone is in their back-to-school finest. For the incoming Columbia Journalism School class, this means …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBC launches Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts in 170 countries and regions, with 400+ hours of exclusive programming, for $2.99/month or $29.99/year in the US — True crime is among the most popular podcast content categories — and now NBC's “Dateline,” one of the genre's OGs, is looking to cash in.
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@film_girl and AppleInsider
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Apple says the number of Apple Podcast subscribers grew by 300%+ since June 2021 and 25%+ of the top 100 shows in its Top Shows chart now offer a subscription — Dateline, NBC's true crime newsmagazine show, is offering a paid podcast subscription through Apple's in-app product starting today.
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TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Twitter says it has rolled out customizable article preview cards called Tweet Tiles to The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal last week — Have you noticed that some news article cards on Twitter are looking a little different lately?
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@jason_kint
National Union of Journalists:
After failed talks with Reach, the UK's National Union of Journalists plans to strike on August 31 and from September 13 to September 15, 2022 — Following two days of negotiations over the bank holiday weekend, brokered by ACAS the arbitration service, talks between the NUJ and Reach have broken down with no deal.
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@nuj_leicester, @nujofficial, @jimwaterson and @jimwaterson
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Poynter and NewsGuild: Gannett's August 2022 layoffs cut at least 70 to 90 newsroom jobs, after a 35% drop in the newspaper's workforce from 2019 to 2021 — The latest cutbacks at Gannett come amid an industry-wide trend of shrinking newspaper newsrooms — The only full-time news reporter …
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Los Angeles Times, @elaheizadi, @markberman, @dankennedy_nu, @bethreinhard, @bethreinhard, @jbenton, @dangillmor, @nikkiusher, @mattdpearce, @ron_fournier, @daviduberti, @aexm, @rahchachow, @ron_fournier, @alecmacgillis, @brooklynmarie, @davidfolkenflik, @edercampuzano, @nycjim, @jamesrbuk, @gehrig38 and The Rural Blog
Jessica Votipka / Grand Island Independent:
In Nebraska, high school administrators shut down a journalism program after students published editorials on LGBTQ topics, which some call an act of censorship — Northwest Public Schools administrators eliminated its journalism program in June in what some former students and press freedom advocates call an act of censorship.
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New York Times, Associated Press, @juliacarriew, @roncharles, Mediaite, @avitale, @benjamindictor, @vaughnhillyard, @fpwellman, @hrw, @nickkristof, @alfonslopeztena, @czaneh, @msignorile, @zoerosebryant, @aweiss, @melissakchan, @imillhiser, @lazysocialist67, @jeremylittau, @jcharbonneau, @donnerkay, @drsamischalk, @wajahatali, @redcloud_scribe, @spj_tweets, @juliacarriew, @amandanicrosa, @7im and Reason
Kurt Gessler:
Tribune Publishing says disabling Google's AMP led to very little impact on mobile search referrals, as year-long drops mostly aligned to broader search trends — Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience …
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@seldo, @chronotope, @seldo, @seldo, @dossy, @seldo, @beep, @kurtgessler, @dkiesow and @kurtgessler
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at the growing divergence between critics' reviews and viewers' ratings of top movies over the years; 2022 so far has the largest opinion gap to date — Good afternoon from Los Angeles, wherever you may be. Earlier this year, I noticed that critics seemed especially critical of the new crop of big movies.
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@lucas_shaw, @davidpoland, @mattsclancy, @rudyhavenstein, @business, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @ericdharvey, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at The Washington Post and Imagine deal to create content based on the paper's archive and current reporting, with four projects actively in development — Brian Grazer, Bryan Lourd, and Fred Ryan dish on the DC paper's partnership with Imagine and CAA, which already has four projects in development.
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Washington Post, @genepark, @petersagal, @alexnpress and @jacob_brogan
Vikram Dodd / The Guardian:
Some UK police forces are asking officers to disclose personal ties with news reporters; some policing figures and freedom of speech groups oppose the clampdown — Freedom of speech groups raise over clampdown, which only came to light by accident — Police chiefs have been issuing secret …
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@sturgios, @hannahfearn, @jamieklingler, @sima_kotecha and @annolivarius