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The New York Times Company:
NYT's Choire Sicha is stepping down as Styles editor to become a senior editor working on expanding the paper's newsletter portfolio — After a great run leading the Styles section, Choire is taking on a new challenge to help expand our newsletter portfolio. Read more in this note from Dean Baquet, Joe Kahn and Sam Sifton.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ViacomCBS combines CBS News and local stations in a single unit to be led by former ABC stations chief Wendy McMahon and former Hearst exec Neeraj Khemlani — Neeraj Khemlani and Wendy McMahon have been named to lead a new unit that combines CBS News and CBS local stations …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Reuters is introducing a paywall: after registration and a free preview period, subscriptions will cost $34.99/month; it also plans to launch newsletters — Reuters will begin charging for access to its website as it tries to capture a slice of the digital subscription business.
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Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Simon & Schuster says it won't distribute the book written by one of the police officers who shot Breonna Taylor last year, to be published by Post Hill Press — Publishing giant Simon & Schuster has announced it will not distribute the book written by one of the police officers …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Firefox and major Chromium browsers, including Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi, decline to join FLoC, Google's proposed ad technology to replace third-party cookies — Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, and Mozilla are all out — Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies.
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Digiday, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @samhulick and @katekayereports, more at Techmeme »
Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog:
Substack announces Substack Local, a $1M initiative to help up to 30 independent writers build local subscription news outlets via a cash advance, advice, more — A panel of independent judges will work with Substack to select up to 30 local news writers to participate in the program.
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
In a letter to artists, Apple says it pays a penny per stream, roughly double Spotify, which pays an average of about one-third to half a penny per stream — Music-streaming services, seeking to win credibility and subscribers, open up about artist payouts
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Variety, The Wrap, Insider, Engadget, @lanceulanoff, The Verge, AppleInsider, @riegerreport, @ethanwsj, MacRumors and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Study: of the five values espoused by journalists, including oversight, transparency, and factuality, only factuality has the support of a majority of Americans — Ask almost any group of journalists to name the core values of their profession, and they'll probably deliver a list like this:
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American Press Institute, @jayrosen_nyu, @tedcruz, The Rural Blog, @mollyjongfast, @craignewmark, @ampress, @markamesexiled, @eddiepereztx, @gpaddymanning, @ampress, @eileen_mcclory, @mzhemingway, @soljourno, @jonathanstray, @tednesi, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @janebsinger, @spj_tweets, @mkramer, @sulliview, @sulliview, @sulliview, @kevinloker, @tomrosenstiel, @rohanv, @jenmercieca, @jayrosen_nyu, @sulliview, @mehdirhasan, The Daily Caller, @deneenlbrown, News Media Alliance, Columbia Journalism Review and PRIMER
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
LA Times is launching a daily podcast, The Times, starting May 3, joining a slew of other outlets; it is also adding subscriber-only feeds to some podcasts — When the Los Angeles Times debuts “The Times: Daily News from the L.A. Times” next month, the newspaper publisher will be far …
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@gustavoarellano, @steakscience, @niemanlab and Hot Pod News
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Interview with journalism professor Nikki Usher on the return of partisan news outlets, how big news organizations are increasingly by and for elites, and more — In this episode of our podcast, we look at challenges around equity, diversity and sustainability with the help of Nikki Usher
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reutersinstitute …, @sharmasupriya, @nikkiusher, @fedecherubini, @averyholton, @rasmus_kleis and American Press Institute
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
A look at the rise of independent media in Afghanistan, mostly owned and led by young people, under the threat of constant violence and a return to darker times — Under the threat of constant violence and a return to darker times, young editors and reporters refuse to give up, Raksha Kumar reports
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@rasmus_kleis, @dangillmor and Poynter
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
As news outlets grapple with whether to show the video of Adam Toledo's shooting, Block Club Chicago chose to run one version of the story with and one without — Body camera footage showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo was released on Thursday.
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@rhodes_dawn, Vanity Fair, @markberman, Block Club Chicago, @niemanlab, @awalkerinla, @eedugdale and Chicago Tribune
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