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7:55 AM ET, April 12, 2023

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Joanna Partridge / The Guardian:
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk said Twitter will change @BBC's “government-funded media” tag to “publicly funded” and he had “utmost respect” for the broadcaster  —  Billionaire also says pain level from owning site is ‘extremely high’ but the business is ‘breaking even’
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look back at the UK tabloid phone-hacking case, ahead of the Dominion-Fox case: Rupert Murdoch and Fox survived the scandal and press rules changed little  —  A little over ten years ago, a long-awaited report, authored by Lord Justice Leveson, examined the incestuous relations between …
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 …
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo:
Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score”  —  Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's article app is taking a page from Reddit's playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation.
Erin Ailworth / Wall Street Journal:
A team of Russian reporters, scholars, programmers, and database specialists launches the Russian Independent Media Archive, starting with work from 13 outlets  —  Partnership between PEN America, Bard College comes as WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich remains imprisoned in Russia
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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
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  —  Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider.
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 …
Melissa del Bosque / New Yorker:
A look at the work by a collective of 30+ Mexican reporters to solve journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea's assassination in 2017 after a corrupt investigation  —  After the death of a reporter who investigated narcopolitics, her colleagues formed a secret collective to bring the killers to justice—and challenge a culture of impunity.
 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram gives brands access to parts of its creator marketplace via two APIs and expands access to the marketplace for brand agencies
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
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
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
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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
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
Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Al Jaffee, who created the Mad Fold-In in 1964 and retired from Mad Magazine in 2020, dies at 102
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