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Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:
Twitter considers outlets to be “government funded media” when the “government provides some or all” of the funding and “may” be involved in editorial content — The Twitter CEO told an NPR reporter that he was using Wikipedia to determine which media outlets …
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David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube says NFL Sunday Ticket packages will cost between $249 and $489 depending on the user's subscription; the company reportedly pays the NFL $2B per year — Football fans, start saving those pennies. YouTube just announced pricing for its new Sunday Ticket package …
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Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Al Jaffee, who retired from Mad Magazine in 2020 and was the longest-working comic artist ever, dies at 102 — For 55 years he created the fold-in (as opposed to, say, Playboy's fold-out), giving readers a satirical double-take on whatever was going on in the news or elsewhere.
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Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo:
Artifact, the personalized news sharing app started by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's article app is taking a page from Reddit's playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation.
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network — Notes, the platform's new feature, functions similarly to its rival social app — LOS ANGELES — The newsletter platform Substack's …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Nieman Lab shuts down Fuego, launched in August 2011 to track the most popular links on Twitter, after the company started charging $42K/month for API access — Back in 2018, the far-right influencer Steve Bannon shared his theory of American politics. “The Democrats don't matter,” he told journalist Michael Lewis.
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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
The US designates Evan Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained”, letting the State Department exert more pressure on Russia and unlocking more resources to free him — Official designation enables U.S. to press a foreign government, unlocks other resources to free detainee
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Angela Fu / Poynter:
A look at The Coronado News, a free weekly debuted in January 2023 by Salt Lake Tribune chair Paul Huntsman for the resort city's 9,500 residents and businesses — The Coronado News is a free weekly delivered to 9,500 of the resort city's residents and businesses.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
ESPN, Slate, and NPR explain why they're putting more podcasts on YouTube: more traffic, revenue, and reach that allows them to find new audiences — ESPN, NPR, and Slate are experimenting with watchable podcasts. — It has recently come to my attention that some people prefer to watch podcasts.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google adds free ad-supported streaming TV content from Tubi, Plex, Haystack News, and FAST channels of its own to Google TV in the US, for a total of over 800 — FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) channels are becoming inescapable these days and booming in popularity through …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with GQ Global Editorial Director Will Welch on the April 2023 issue, which marks the first time GQ has published the same magazine in 20 markets — GQ global editorial director Will Welch on the journey to the first GQ issue fully shared between 20 markets.
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@brokenbottleboy, @pressgazette and @pressgazette
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter shadowbanned Matt Taibbi's account for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets and the Twitter Files in search — The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber. — Quick(ish) recap:
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