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5:25 PM ET, April 11, 2023

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Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:
David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube says NFL Sunday Ticket packages will cost between $249 and $489 depending on the user's subscription; the company reportedly pays the NFL $2B per year  —  Football fans, start saving those pennies.  YouTube just announced pricing for its new Sunday Ticket package …
Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Al Jaffee, who retired from Mad Magazine in 2020 and was the longest-working comic artist ever, dies at 102  —  For 55 years he created the fold-in (as opposed to, say, Playboy's fold-out), giving readers a satirical double-take on whatever was going on in the news or elsewhere.
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network  —  Notes, the platform's new feature, functions similarly to its rival social app  —  LOS ANGELES — The newsletter platform Substack's …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Nieman Lab shuts down Fuego, launched in August 2011 to track the most popular links on Twitter, after the company started charging $42K/month for API access  —  Back in 2018, the far-right influencer Steve Bannon shared his theory of American politics.  “The Democrats don't matter,” he told journalist Michael Lewis.
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
The US designates Evan Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained”, letting the State Department exert more pressure on Russia and unlocking more resources to free him  —  Official designation enables U.S. to press a foreign government, unlocks other resources to free detainee
Angela Fu / Poynter:
A look at The Coronado News, a free weekly debuted in January 2023 by Salt Lake Tribune chair Paul Huntsman for the resort city's 9,500 residents and businesses  —  The Coronado News is a free weekly delivered to 9,500 of the resort city's residents and businesses.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
ESPN, Slate, and NPR explain why they're putting more podcasts on YouTube: more traffic, revenue, and reach that allows them to find new audiences  —  ESPN, NPR, and Slate are experimenting with watchable podcasts.  —  It has recently come to my attention that some people prefer to watch podcasts.
Discussion: Slate, NPR, Current and Signal Hill Insights
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google adds free ad-supported streaming TV content from Tubi, Plex, Haystack News, and FAST channels of its own to Google TV in the US, for a total of over 800  —  FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) channels are becoming inescapable these days and booming in popularity through …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter shadowbanned Matt Taibbi's account for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets and the Twitter Files in search  —  The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber.  —  Quick(ish) recap:
 
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Janko Roettgers / @jank0:
[Thread] Janko Roettgers, formerly at Protocol, launches Lowpass, a newsletter on tech and entertainment, and explains how he chose a newsletter platform
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Katie Cotton, who was Apple's VP of worldwide communications for 18 years and mostly worked directly for Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6
Chris Moran / The Guardian:
The Guardian forms a working group to learn about generative AI after readers inquire about articles never written or published but that ChatGPT claims exist
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Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
Sex workers and others criticize Meta's Verified program for requiring creators to use their legal name as their profile display name without a way to change it
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube adds Premium features: enhanced bitrate 1080p support on iOS and the web for “extra crisp and clear” videos, support for Apple's SharePlay, and queuing
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: Bret Baier repeatedly proposed devoting an hour-long special to debunk US election fraud myths in November 2020, but never got an answer from Fox News
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Sources: The White House is weighing giving social media influencers a dedicated briefing space, an unprecedented move that would give them more access to Biden