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Memo: following Apple announcement, WSJ EIC Matt Murray says the paper will be hiring dozens of staff and names Jennifer Hicks as Editor of News Partnerships — Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray sent out the following announcement on Monday:
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Apple launches Apple News+ in US and Canada, a subscription service with news pubs like WSJ and 300+ mags, for $9.99/month and free sharing with family accounts — Apple unveiled a news subscription service called Apple News+ at its services event in Cupertino, Calif. Monday.
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Report: Apple News+ will surface WSJ stories of general interest; subscribers will have access to 3 days worth of business and financial news in WSJ's archives — Apple News+ was officially announced earlier today, allowing users to pay $9.99 per month for access to 300 magazines and select newspapers.
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Apple News+ is a fine way to read magazines, but its UX's roots in Texture makes finding content from newspapers and digital news outlets difficult — Few entities have the potential to help improve news production and consumption more than Apple. This falls short of hopes.
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Apple shared surprisingly few details about TV+, with no price or launch date info, and little to show for its original content aside from bland announcements — Oprah? Sure. Reese, Jen, and Steven, too. But Apple's preview raises more questions than it answers.

Apple announces Apple TV+, its new ad-free streaming service with original content from Spielberg, JJ Abrams, and others, coming to 100+ countries in the fall
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The media's coverage of the Trump team's Russia connections has not been invalidated by the Mueller report, but news publishers may mistakenly soften coverage — It should be no surprise to anyone that President Trump's reaction to the Mueller report is to attack reporters for doing their jobs.
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Inside the Justice Department's press room on Friday, as reporters on the justice beat awaited the Mueller Report
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Sources: Trump's team plans to “slam and shame the media” over Mueller coverage, with the RNC and Fox News talk show hosts already launching attacks
Sources: Trump's team plans to “slam and shame the media” over Mueller coverage, with the RNC and Fox News talk show hosts already launching attacks
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Medium's deputy editor Katie Drummond is leaving the site after less than a year to join Vice as senior vice-president of digital — Katie Drummond, who has worked as an editor in digital media and publishing for a decade, joined Vice Media as senior vice president of Vice Digital.
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The history of Medium, told through a timeline of tweets, articles, and Ev Williams' own statements on the site — Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me seven times, well...how much money do you have, again? — Less than a year after Medium abruptly canceled …
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Google denies report that YouTube has stopped accepting pitches for scripted shows, confirms it's debuting new ad-supported original programming in coming weeks — On the heels of Apple announcing paid, monthly subscription services for video, games, and news, YouTube says it is also doubling down original video content.
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Former NYT editor Susan Chira has been named editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, replacing founding editor Bill Keller who is retiring in April — Susan Chira, whose decorated four-decade career at The New York Times included stints as deputy executive editor, foreign editor …
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News outlets covering Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are experiencing something similar to the “Trump Bump”, as she attracts TV ratings and web clicks — Shortly after U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez schooled witnesses in a Congressional hearing on campaign-finance laws, the editors at NowThis sprang into action.
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@selina_y_wang and @gerryfsmith

A look at the US-funded Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, for which 700 reporters sometimes risk death to chronicle war and politics globally — In Ukraine, separatists are holding Stanislav Aseyev, a reporter from the Donbas region, on the eastern border with Russia.
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@mjluxmoore and Columbia Journalism Review