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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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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 …
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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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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Financial Times:
Ampere: Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, and Netflix will spend $23B+ in 2023 on original content, up 10% YoY and more than twice the spending of 2019 — Crop of expensive fantasy adaptations from Amazon and HBO Max served up at subsidised prices
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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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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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Daniel Van Boom / CNET:
Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed at MTV's Video Music Awards in Yuga Labs' game Otherside, morphing into the Bored Yacht Ape NFT avatars that they own — Just like the video clip for the song, Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed “From The D 2 The LBC” as their Bored Apes during Sunday's Video Music Awards.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix may launch its ad-supported tier in 2022 in 6+ markets, and plans to charge $7 to $9 per month in the US, selling ~4 minutes of ads per hour — Netflix Inc. is considering pricing its new advertising-supported tier at $7 to $9 a month, half as much as its current …
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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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The Guardian:
A look at Russia's propaganda drive in the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Kherson through a new TV station and a resurrected Soviet-era newspaper — As Moscow gears up to annex Kherson in a ‘referendum’, Tavriya shows Russia as liberator, saving citizens from Ukrainian Nazis
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