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3:40 PM ET, July 20, 2022

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The Guardian:
Guardian reports annual revenue for the year to April 2022 of £255.8M, up 13% YoY, and net operating inflow of £6.7M; digital revenue surpasses print, a first  —  Guardian Media Group (GMG) today announces outstanding financial results for the 12 months to 3 April 2022
Matthew Doig:
An LAT editor who worked on the story about drug use by a USC dean refutes the claims made in a book by an LAT reporter about editors trying to kill the story  —  An LA Times reporter's book claims corrupt editors — myself included — tried to protect USC from an embarrassing exposé.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Crunchbase has raised a $50M Series D led by Alignment Growth and says it attracts 75M+ unique visitors annually and recently surpassed 60,000 paying customers  —  In both down times and boom times, businesses across industries are faced with the challenge of building sales pipelines and closing revenue.
Haroon Siddique / The Guardian:
UK's justice secretary announces proposals for a three-stage test for courts in England and Wales to dismiss SLAPP lawsuits at an early stage  —  Strategic lawsuits against public participation have been used by rich to try to stifle free speech  —  Courts in England and Wales are to be granted …
Knight Foundation:
The Knight Foundation announces $20K grants to 25 newsrooms to upgrade digital publishing tools; the program has provided $1.5M to 75 newsrooms over three years  —  Twenty-five newsrooms will receive $20,000 grants to deploy an improved publishing solution, in third year of Knight initiative in partnership with News Revenue Hub
Ashley Wong / New York Times:
A profile of Hell Gate, a five-person news outlet in New York City owned by the writers; the site has launched paid subscriptions of $6.99 a month or $70 a year  —  After years of being put through the wringer of New York City media, five journalists created Hell Gate, the blog-style news site run on their terms.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Evening Standard editor Charlotte Ross departs suddenly; deputy editor Jack Lefley will become the paper's fourth editor or acting editor in just over two years  —  Evening Standard acting editor Charlotte Ross has left the newspaper with immediate effect.  —  Her exit means the Evgeny …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube hires Rene Ritchie, a tech YouTuber and former editor-in-chief of iMore, as its new Creator Liaison  —  He's the company's second creator liaison  —  Rene Ritchie, the former editor-in-chief of Apple-focused site iMore who has been a full-time YouTuber for the past two years …
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
A look at GPT-3-powered fiction writing tools like Sudowrite, which takes text and can propose plot twists, rewrite in specific tones, suggest metaphors, more  —  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl …
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $7.97B, vs $8.04B est., and a 970K subscriber loss vs an estimated 2M subscriber loss; stock jumps 5%+ after hours  —  Netflix shares jumped 6% after the company said it lost fewer subscribers than anticipated during the second quarter.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans to launch its cheaper, ad-supported plan in “the early part of 2023”, starting in “a handful of markets where advertising spend is significant”
Karen Maniraho / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with five journalists who cover internet culture on how they describe their beat, decide what to cover, navigate algorithms, and more  —  Five journalists on covering the internet in search of meaning, not viral trends  —  “Ours is a period of increasing noise,” Jason Parham wrote earlier this year, for Wired.
 
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