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Ethan Zuckerman:
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions — What content is popular on Facebook? — This is a surprisingly difficult - and very important - question to answer.
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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Facebook, for the first time, shares a report on the most widely viewed domains, links, posts, and Pages on Facebook in the US during Q2 — A video of two cats walking, tails intertwined, looking like the best of friends. A resource site for Green Bay Packers alumni.
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Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:
Memo: 65 families of NYT colleagues, with 128 people, have made it out of Afghanistan, and NYT plans to find ways to cover the country under Taliban rule — Here's the note from NYT's @meslackman to staff tonight on our colleagues from Afghanistan https://twitter.com/...
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News is mandating all staff share their vaccination status even as its personalities argue that asking about vaccine status is a major intrusion of privacy — New York (CNN Business)The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept …
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@revue:
Twitter starts testing a button on Revue creators' profiles that allows users to subscribe to their newsletters — It's here 🧡 Today, we're starting to test a feature that allows people to subscribe to your Revue newsletter directly from your Twitter profile. It's available to all Revue creators immediately. To start though, your newsletters will show only for a test group on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
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Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Facebook says it will spend $5M on multi-year deals with 25 local journalists for its Bulletin newsletter — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has chosen 25 local independent journalists to be paid out of a $5 million pot to write for its newsletter site Bulletin through multiyear deals, the company told Reuters on Thursday.
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Matt Burgess / Wired:
Researchers say they've found a “likely state-sponsored” Chinese online influence operation that attacks the BBC's reporting and claims it uses a “gloom filter” — The alleged digital operation has deployed hundreds of websites and social media accounts to attack the broadcaster's reporting.
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@ryanfedasiuk, @ryanfedasiuk and @m_miho_jpn
Shirley Zhao / Bloomberg:
A look at Hong Kong-based streamer Viu: operates in 16 markets, $62M revenue in H1, and second to Disney+ by paid subscribers in SE Asia, per a research firm — - Streaming service trails only Disney Plus in Southeast Asia — Hybrid model of partly free, partly paid content paid off
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Tencent Music's Q2 subscription revenue grew 32.8% YoY to $277M and it expects to add 4M-5M subs per quarter, despite a ban on exclusive licensing agreements — The company is downplaying the loss of exclusive music on its platform following a July 26 crackdown by the Chinese government.
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
A closer look at the lead up to the implosion at Current Affairs, which the EIC calls “a horrible call in judgment”, and the uncertain aftermath for the outlet — The staff of Current Affairs announced Wednesday morning that they had been fired by their boss …
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Lauren Williams / @laurenwilliams:
Capital B, a Black-focused non-profit national news organization, will open its first local newsroom in Atlanta — In honor of the start of #NABJ21, some Black journalism news: @ko_616 and I are excited to announce that our first local Capital B newsroom will be in Atlanta. Here's why Atlanta is a perfect city to begin our journey:
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Adam Jacobson / Radio & Television Business Report:
National Association of Broadcasters Show to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination, no face mask requirement; no digital log-in option will be available — It's official: With under two months until the start of the first NAB Show since spring 2019, and associated co-located events …
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