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Ruth Reader / Fast Company:
GoodRx debuts GoodRx Health, a site with a 50-person editorial team aiming to give better answers to the most googled health questions than sites like WebMD — Cheap prescription-drugs platform GoodRx is getting into the content business. The company is debuting GoodRx Health …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at NYT's trust-and-innovation project, one of several newsroom initiatives unfolding amid speculation over who will succeed Executive Editor Dean Baquet — On a mission for 10 million paying customers, the paper has formed a new team to help ensure confidence in its journalism …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:NEW!
YouTube says it will cut YouTube TV's fee by $10/month and drop NBCUniversal channels if it can't reach a deal with NBCU by September 30 — Another carriage fight has burst into public view: NBCUniversal on Sunday said it was notifying customers with YouTube TV that more than 14 of its networks …
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The Streamable, YouTube Official Blog, nexttv.com, @nbcphiladelphia, @lukebk, 9to5Google, @chrisbarnestech and Cord Cutters News
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Mississippi Free Press, a nonprofit committed to solutions-based journalism that launched in March 2020, had little choice but to focus on the pandemic — On the Mississippi Free Press' birthday, publisher Kimberly Griffin headlined her summary of what the new nonprofit news organization …
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@haimerlad, @keaux_, @msfreepress, @ashtonpittman, @msfreepress, @niemanlab and PREVAIL
Charlotte Ricca / Digital Content Next:
Behind Vox Media's acquisition of the Hot Pod newsletter, which it plans to keep at its $7/month subscription price, and how it intends to grow its audience — There is no doubt the media industry can be pretty cutthroat. Publishers are always looking for new ways to generate revenue …
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The Muffin por Mauricio …, @niemanlab and @dcnorg
Geoff Dembicki / VICE:
News Corp. has documented its carbon emissions cuts and climate-change risk mitigation since 2006, even as many of its outlets deny the phenomenon — Murdoch's News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.
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@vicenews, @davidfolkenflik, @craigthomler, @brooklynmarie, @vicenews, @sandiegosra, @vicenews and @damiencave
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes:
[Thread] Jere Hester, founding EIC of The City in NYC, is leaving to return to CUNY's journalism school; the site is searching for a replacement — So, we have news: https://www.thecity.nyc/...
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THE CITY, @akashvmehta, @benyt, @rachelholliday, @sssmaldo, @craignewmark, @katie_honan, @brigidbergin, @jmartineznyc, @fractenberg, @nicdawes, @nicdawes and @petersterne
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Q&A with Gizmodo reporter Shoshana Wodinksy, on covering online advertising and data privacy issues and why adtech is dense and dull on purpose — This is the longest Q&A I've ever done here on Galaxy Brain. There's quite a bit, here. But I think it's worth the read. Let me explain why.
Russell Contreras / Axios:
US GAO: ~11% of workers in the media industry and ~8% of workers in newspapers and publishing were Hispanic from 2014-2019, vs. 18% of the total US workforce — Latinos are severely underrepresented in the media industry and have made few gains in film, television, or newsrooms since 2014 …
Gilad Edelman / Wired:
The social media industry needs its own version of journalism's firewall to shield safety, moderation, and enforcement decisions from execs focused on growth — Government regulation will never fix everything wrong with online discourse. The industry needs to develop professional norms—just as journalism once did.
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@michellemanafy, @jason_kint, @juurdeijsvoogel, @evelyndouek and @froomkin, more at Techmeme »
Robyn Vinter / The Guardian:
UK's Channel 4 and its sister channels were down for more than an hour during prime time on Saturday evening because of a technical problem — Several TV channels including Channel 5, Film 4 and More 4, lost output — Half a dozen TV channels including Channel 4 and Channel 5 suffered …
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@neil_neilzone, @nmsonline, @nmsonline, Daily Mail, ITV News, The Irish Sun, Daily Express, London Evening Standard, Metro.co.uk, mirror and The Independent
Brian Contreras / Los Angeles Times:
How TikTok's auto-generation tools helped popularize subtitles in the app, as creators compete for the estimated 75% of users who leave their phones on mute — TikTok creator Alyssa McKay has perfected a persona people love to hate: a Regina George-esque rich girl whose bouncy raps are packed …
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@latimes, @iamahmedkhalifa and @_b_contreras_
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