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The Chicago Sun-Times, which became a nonprofit newsroom in January, drops its paywall and launches a donation-based digital membership program — We're dropping our paywall and making it free to read the news — but we're still counting on your support. — In recent years …
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Shopify settles a lawsuit with five major education publishers that claimed the platform ignored notices of users selling pirated textbooks and other materials — Shopify Inc has settled allegations by a group of major educational publishers that the Canadian e-commerce company enables piracy …
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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Prince Harry, Elton John, and others sue Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, saying it hired people to bug homes, access bank accounts, and more — Prince Harry has launched yet another lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of British tabloids the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: the Kremlin has told some state media to admit some failings of the Ukraine invasion, worried that upbeat propaganda was fueling people's doubts — With its troops losing ground almost daily, the Kremlin has told some of its state media to start admitting some of the failings …
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Pew: 6% of US adults regularly get news on BitChute, Gab, Gettr, Parler, Rumble, Telegram, or Truth Social, but no single site drew 2%+ of those seeking news — The appeal of platforms like Parler, Truth Social and Telegram is another symptom of the partisan divide in media, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Media outlets are increasingly asking social media users for images of natural disasters; Reuters has a dedicated Twitter account for the pursuit of photos — When Beth Booker posted a photo of her mother's house flooded by Hurricane Ian last week, messages of concern and sympathy came pouring in.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount programming executive David Nevins is leaving at the end of 2022; a former CEO of Showtime, he also held top positions at CBS, Viacom, and Paramount+ — 'I'm going to really think through my options before I make a move,' Mr. Nevins said of future plans
Brendan Vaughan / Fast Company:
Fast Company brings its site, Inc, and Mansueto back online after eight days, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and no customer or advertiser info was disclosed — Eight days. That's how long FastCompany.com was offline after we were targeted in a cyberattack, first on the afternoon of Sunday …
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Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
Internal ByteDance report: revenue grew nearly 80% YoY to $61.7B in 2021 but operating losses more than tripled YoY from $2.14B to $7.15B due to growth spending — Social-media giant saw its operating losses more than triple last year to above $7 billion — TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. saw …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Sources: Facebook's two-year-old UK News tab is curated mostly by freelancers at Axel Springer's Upday, who are paid £200-£350 per day and can't work elsewhere — The Facebook News tab was launched in Britain with much fanfare last year as part of a $1bn global programme from the tech giant to support publishers.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter makes crowdsourced fact-checking Birdwatch notes on tweets visible to all US users, says seeing them causes 15%-35% fewer likes or retweets on average — After last month's expansion of Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program known as Birdwatch, Twitter announced this morning …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts out of ~500 shows as it focuses on big shows; source: about 5% of the podcasting staff will be laid off or reassigned — Spotify is axing a small portion of its original podcast programming slate — canceling 11 out of approximately 500 current shows …
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