Mediagazer: Alex French and Maximillian Potter on the back story of their Atlantic article on Bryan Singer and alleged pedophilia in Hollywood, which was spiked by Esquire (Elon Green/Columbia Journalism Review)

3:50 AM ET, February 25, 2019

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How NYT plans to avoid the Trump slump and sign up 10M paying subscribers by 2025 through global expansion, attracting a younger audience via podcasts, and more — Mark Thompson's nautical and military metaphors have generated some ribbing from others at The New York Times.

Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:

NYT looks to expand subscriber base in Texas and Florida with a new TV show called The Weekly debuting in June on Hulu and FX, and experiments with its paywall — - Cooking app shows that newspaper can reach rural customers — Publisher needs to find new markets to hit 10 million target

Discussion: @michaelluo

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

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Peter M. Stevenson / Los Angeles Times:

Profile of Vanity Fair Editor Radhika Jones that looks at her past and efforts at more diversity in the magazine, ahead of her second Oscar party — It was a Sunday afternoon in West Hollywood, the host-less Academy Awards were one week away, and Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones had arrived …

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NYT says that a reporter and a photographer were disinvited from covering Vanity Fair's Oscar party; on Thursday, NYT ran a story on the party's inner workings

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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Focusing on subscribers, Netflix has different incentives than polarizing ad-based platforms, highlighting what its viewers in 190 countries may have in common — Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it's aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience.

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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:

Q&A with WSJ EIC Matt Murray on Murdoch's hands-off approach to the paper's Trump coverage, how tech has impacted the news business, and the ongoing China story — “Rupert Murdoch has never given me one instruction about how to cover Trump.” — Matt Murray was named editor-in-chief …

Discussion: @raju

Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:

Alex French and Maximillian Potter on the back story of their Atlantic article on Bryan Singer and alleged pedophilia in Hollywood, which was spiked by Esquire — On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer's Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year.

Discussion: @kimmasters, @kristapley, @lisamcintire, @madelineashby, @megancarpentier, @woodruffbets, @sunnysingh_n6, @yoloethics, @pamelacolloff, @sil_lai, @runwithskizzers and @jayrosen_nyu

Daniel Funke / Poynter:

Eleven news organizations, including Rappler, and three universities in the Philippines team up to launch Tsek.ph, a new collaborative fact-checking project — On a Monday, Maria Ressa celebrated the launch of a new collaborative fact-checking project. Two days later, she was arrested on “cyber libel” charges.

Discussion: @dpfunke

MediaPost:

Survey of 34 publishers: 79% say readers are more willing to pay for content, up from 70% in 2018 and 82% say paid content is an integral part of their strategy — Publishers say tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are less supportive of the industry than they were a year ago …

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