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Sarah Gooding / WP Tavern:
A recently unredacted antitrust complaint says AMP pages brought 40% less revenue to publishers, partly due to Google throttling load times of non-AMP ads — The Chrome Dev Summit concluded earlier this week. Announcements and discussions on hot topics impacting the greater web community …
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@carnage4life, @vasiliyzukanov, @triblondon, @lehors, @jameshercher and @robinberjon, more at Techmeme »
Irena Hwang / ProPublica:
How a ProPublica data journalist with a bioinformatics background used public genomic sequencing data to track a salmonella outbreak in the US chicken industry — For a ProPublica reporter who did Ph.D. work in bioinformatics, data on bacterial DNA helped reveal how a once-rare salmonella strain spread through the chicken industry.
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@propublica, @tomthuang, @dmaccannell, @michaelgrabell, @clancynewyork, @dicktofel, @bmyeung, @chrishendel, @camfassett, @smmills1960, @emsimani, @propublica, @propublica and @niemanlab
Leyland Cecco / The Guardian:
A look at the messy public feud inside Canada's Rogers Communications between mother and son, as questions linger over who in the Rogers family should take over — The fight for Rogers Communications has riven one of Canada's richest families - and began with an accidental butt dial
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix faces more active libel suits than any major news outlet, partly due to its nonfiction fare, often unsuccessfully arguing that it is just a distributor — The mega-streamer is facing more defamation complaints than any major news outlet, stemming from projects like 'Making a Murderer …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The labor beat is hot again, both at legacy news outlets and at mission-driven ones like NY-focused The Chief-Leader, whose new owner plans to double staff — At a moment of political turmoil, economic change and a pandemic-driven focus on how we work, labor has become a hot news beat.
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@dianesavino, @hondawang, @grimkim, @papscun, @greenhousenyt, @davidlsims, @prernajagadeesh, @fshakir and @benyt
Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
McClatchy, owned by hedge fund Chatham Asset Management, skips Report for America's next cycle; sources: it's a response to RFA president's hedge fund bashing — In June, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by Steven Waldman—the president and co-founder of Report for America (RFA) …
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@tmpowell, @alexanderrusso, @kstyermartinez, @robcurley, @jboren4507, @ginaspadafori, @cityscenekc, @amanbatheja, @lukeranker, @jboren4507, @mariacarter, @palan57, @bgrueskin, @stevecollinssj, @apantazi, @ckrewson, @saragentzler, @charlesornstein, @timothynoah1, @katebellows, @cltledger, @dicktofel, @sarahespicer, @hayley__harding, @paolozialcita, @dankennedy_nu, @dkiesow, @oliviacpaschal, @johnrobinson, @natsfert, @michaellycklama, @srodd_cpr, @robdownenchron, @wongalum, @abbielj, @carlamurphy, @_chloeaj, @jon_allsop, @sarahespicer, @wongalum, @harrisonmantas, @yeseniaamaro and @romanbatt
Bloomberg:
Sources: Bauhinia, a holding company owned by China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, is working on an offer to acquire South China Morning Post from Alibaba — - Bauhinia owned by government's Liaison Office in Hong Kong — Alibaba under pressure from Beijing to shed media properties
Discussion:
Menagerie, the Newsletter and @krislc
Caleb Pershan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Nielsen: between October 2020 and October 2021, CNN viewership fell 73%, MSNBC viewership fell 56%, and Fox News viewership fell 53% — After a year of voracious consumption fueled by the election, post-election violence and pandemic coverage, Americans have turned off the news—on television, online and in print.
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@andykhouri, @edcafasso, @zigmanfreud and American Press Institute
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Imax had its biggest October with $117M in sales as premium large formats benefit from blockbusters like Dune despite streaming and shortened theatrical windows — There's been something notable about ticket sales for “Dune,” and not only because the sci-fi adaptation of Frank Herbert's landmark novel …
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The Dispatch
The Economist:
Newsprint prices in the US were 20%-30% higher YoY in 2021 and will be 50%-70% higher YoY in Q1 2022 in Europe, as many paper mills convert to making packaging — “It's like tasering an elderly person who's already on a pacemaker,” says a British newspaper boss of the newsprint market …
Discussion:
@theeconomist, @sarahscire and @brianstelter
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Daily Wire files a lawsuit claiming the Biden administration's employer vaccine mandate lacks constitutional or statutory authority — Bentkey Services, LLC, the company that owns the conservative website The Daily Wire, filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration's employer vaccine mandate in federal court on Thursday.
Discussion:
Mediaite, @kurtbardella and The Hill
Agence France-Presse:
Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed for reporting on COVID-19 in Wuhan, is close to death after going on a hunger strike, according to her family — Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, 38, was arrested and jailed after reporting on the outbreak — A citizen journalist jailed …
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Washington Post, @natashaloder, @zeynep, @jwdwerner, @xu_xiuzhong, IFJ, Insider, @mickpuck, @joeyayoub, @benedictrogers, Amnesty International, Newser and Raw Story
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Q&A with AMC Networks executives on the company's niche streaming services, the appeal of Amazon and Apple TV for distribution, and more — Dan McDermott has seen the future of streaming, and it looks nothing like Netflix — or Hulu, or even Peacock. As the recently promoted president …
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@jimmaiella, @tvmojoe and @vulture
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