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4:40 PM ET, July 23, 2019

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Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
Lessons from the fall of Mic, the millennial-focused, Facebook-dependent site which left staffers exhausted, distrustful of leadership, and financially insecure  —  “I don't need a pair of Nikes.  I need a 401(k)" — and other lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:
Profile of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who has donated $100M+ to charities and who champions “vigorous, trustworthy journalism” and women in tech  —  Craig Newmark is a self-proclaimed nerd and reformed jerk.  Now he's putting money behind his politics.
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Pew survey of 10,618 Americans from last fall: 61% say the news media intentionally ignores important stories, 19% say media is biased or focused on opinions  —  It's not just the media institutions — Americans' trust in the federal government, and each other, is dropping.
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Discussion: @guykawasaki and AdExchanger
James Walker / Press Gazette:
EU allots €1.5M to responding to press freedom violations, like providing “tangible protection for journalists,” as part of €4.2M in funding for media projects  —  The European Union has opened up €4.2m (£3.8m) in funding for projects supporting media freedom …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
A look at the work of Puerto Rican news nonprofit CPI, whose publication of texts sent by the governor has partly sparked protests demanding his resignation  —  New York (CNN Business)Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism has broken many, many stories in the past eleven years.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
The CBS blackout is the 213th one in 2019 while only eight blackouts occurred in 2010 as reliance on retransmission fees makes negotiations more strained  —  Among media companies, “going dark” was once a matter of last resort.  Now it's an option that is seeing more light.
Discussion: The Streamable and @davezatz
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
News UK halved the number of podcasts it produces to 22 last year and saw double the downloads and triple the ad revenue  —  In an effort to focus its resources with fewer, more specific shows, News UK cut the number of podcasts it produces in half, to 22 last year.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Newly profitable, Axel Springer and Samsung's news aggregator app Upday plans to launch on other platforms and introduce a podcast aggregator this year  —  Axel Springer's line of defense against the duopoly, news aggregator app Upday, is now profitable and gearing up to scale further and drive more revenue.
Discussion: @upday_press
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
News UK's The Times and Sunday Times get permission from the government to share more journalists; the company has declined to comment on potential job cuts
Discussion: The Guardian
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study of 4M+ tweets during 2017 elections: the ratio of links to professional news sources vs. “junk news” was 7:1 in France, 5:1 in UK, and 4:1 in Germany
Wudan Yan:
Freelance journalist documents the frustrations encountered and energy spent trying to hold three late-paying publications accountable for $5000+ they owed her
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu:
[Thread] Newsrooms can't ignore Trump's outrageous behavior without normalizing him, but they do have options for responsible coverage beyond “taking the bait”
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
After Epstein got out of jail, Forbes, HuffPost, and National Review ran puff pieces about him, not mentioning his conviction, largely via outside contributors
Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Cumulus Media blocks country radio stations from airing Blair Garner's interview with Pete Buttigieg, citing the FCC's equal-time rule
Knight Foundation:
Knight Foundation invests $50M at 11 American universities and research institutions to better understand how technology is transforming democracy