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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Apple TV+ will launch on November 1 for $4.99/month in 100 countries; customers get one year free with the purchase of an Apple device — Back in March, Apple unveiled Apple TV+, a subscription television and film service featuring a slate of original content from Steven Spielberg …
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Kevin J. Delaney / Quartz:
Quartz announces new four-person investigation team, focused on ramifications of tech, which will use machine learning developed by its Quartz AI studio — For nearly seven years, Quartz has been obsessed with how technology infuses our lives, from Machines with Brains (algorithms and robots) …
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@jkeefe and @charliebeckett
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Center for American Progress says ThinkProgress will not function as a sounding board for scholars at the think tank and will instead be archived — The recently closed progressive news site will no longer exist as a sounding board for think tank scholars after union complaints.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, @pykea, @libbycwatson, @benspielberg, @zackbeauchamp, @nberlat, @papapishu, The Wrap, @xlnb, @dylanmatt, @gzornick, @tara_cr, @them_l_g, @nataliesurely, The Wrap and @cjcmichel
New York Times:
Hedge fund Elliott Management takes a $3.2B stake in AT&T, questions its media ambitions in open letter, suggests sale of non-core businesses including DirecTV — With its $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner last year, AT&T announced to the world that it was becoming a new kind of corporate behemoth …
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Marie Claire UK to cease print publication after 31 years — Women's title will continue online and overseas print editions are unaffected — The UK edition of Marie Claire is to cease publication after 31 years as the monthly women's title joins a growing list of magazines that have succumbed to the shift to digital reading.
Paul Smalera / Marker:
Medium launches Marker, a publication covering the world of business, with Paul Smalera as editor in chief — Ideas, investigations, and inspiration. A new Medium publication about business. — Welcome to Marker! We are a new publication focused on making you smarter about the world of business …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Snapchat's creating a dedicated news channel within Discover, going live by Thursday's debate, with content from candidates and vetted news orgs — Snapchat is creating a dedicated news channel specifically for the 2020 debates. It is also working with candidates to increase …
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@peterhamby and @janelytv
Michael Shepherd / Bangor Daily News:
Comcast, Fox, CBS, Disney sue Maine and 17 municipalities, saying US law preempts a state law set to take effect Sept. 19 meant to protect a la carte cable TV — This Jan. 24, 2019, file photo shows a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. The telecommunications giant is leading a lawsuit against Maine …
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Light Reading, @caseyriankelly and @philmeyer
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Study of eight European public broadcasters: their online news offerings add little reach, their audiences are old, educated, and politically diverse — Public service media are often widely used, highly trusted, and do not face the business pressures with which their private peers have to contend.
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Press Gazette, American Press Institute and @niemanreports
Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review:
Apple News Top Stories and Trending Stories audit: 20% of sources account for ~80% of articles; only 8.3% of articles in Top Stories were by local/regional pubs — On April 23, a federal judge in Oregon blocked the enforcement of a new rule banning abortion referrals at taxpayer-funded women's health clinics.
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@frankwords, @frankwords, @frankwords, @frankwords and @frankwords
Meduza.io:
A look at Moscow's local government media environment and the contracts between the city and content suppliers used to drown out news and spread disinformation — Shortly before Sunday's elections to the Moscow City Duma, a mass of Russian-language news sites and social media accounts began posting …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Atlas Obscura raises $20M Series B, led by Airbnb, which will let users book Atlas Obscura trips and experiences through the platform — Travel and exploration website's trips and events to be listed on Airbnb as part of deal — Travel and exploration website Atlas Obscura has built …
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