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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
The UK has created the Digital Markets Unit, which will write a new code of practice for Big Tech and mediate between platforms and news outlets — Alok Sharma says dominance of a few big companies hurts innovation and curtails customer choice — A new tech regulator will work to limit …
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Marcela Kunova / Journalism.co.uk:
The chair of a House of Lords committee urges the UK government to fix the imbalance of power between publishers and platforms by reforming the online ad market — In a new report on sustainability of journalism, peers also call for fixing the 'dysfunctional online advertising market …
Ryu Spaeth / New Republic:
Ben Smith, best ever NYT media columnist, personifies a morally indefensible fact of journalism: each journalist robs others of their stories to tell their own — Let's be honest: Ben Smith is the best media columnist The New York Times has ever had. He instantly surpassed …
Madeleine Schwartz / Nieman Reports:
How the mantle of “fake news” is being used in Belarus, Jordan, Thailand, and Nicaragua to intimidate journalists, and how they're fighting back — A look at four countries — Belarus, Jordan, Thailand, and Nicaragua — where the mantle of “fake news” is used to intimidate and threaten, and how journalists are responding
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John Bowden / The Hill:
NYT offers free digital subscriptions to all US high school students and teachers until September 2021 as part of a partnership with Verizon — The New York Times says it will offer U.S. high school students and teachers free digital subscriptions to the Times's content through next year.
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Maya Binyam / Columbia Journalism Review:
A deep look at newsroom diversity over the years, and how unions have begun to push for contracts with binding language for diversity in hiring — Media companies haven't made newsrooms inclusive. Can unions? — For two decades, from its genesis in the mid-nineties, Vice Media branded itself in the image of the dispossessed.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sources: Fox producers have been told to avoid booking some regular guests if the latter kept doing Newsmax appearances after being encouraged to stop — New York (CNN Business)Fox News is taking action to stave off newfound competition from Newsmax TV. — Producers on some Fox programs …
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Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
N. Ireland police to pay £875K to the makers of documentary No Stone Unturned, for arresting them in 2018 alleging theft of a police report used in the film — Settlement announced at Belfast high court brings end to years-long controversy — The Police Service of Northern Ireland …
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Gordon Cox / Variety:
How stage theater companies have adapted to the pandemic and expanded their audiences, from producing podcast series to livestreaming productions on Twitch — A series of immersive audioplays performed and mixed live, using tech developed by theatrical sound designers and engineers.
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Kris Holt / Engadget:
As Spotify continues to test its stories feature, it has tapped popular musicians to contribute to select Spotify-created playlists — If you're in the festive spirit and you're already listening to seasonal music, you might have noticed Spotify's Christmas Hits playlist is looking a little different.
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Reuters:
UK publisher Reach says 42M+ people visited its sites last month and that it now has 4.25M+ customer registrations, on track to meet its target of 10M in 2022 — (Reuters) - Daily Mirror publisher Reach Plc said on Friday its performance for the current fiscal year was above market expectations …
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Book publishing has been consolidating to increase its bargaining power in the face of Amazon's dominance, whose lock on the book business must be addressed — In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower's attorney general, William Rogers, read the paper with alarm. He learned that Random House intended …
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@melaniempierce, @xioaxelrod, @peterlattman, @kyliescottbooks, @victoriastrauss, @franklinfoer and Publishers Weekly
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
ViacomCBS to sell publisher Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, for $2.175B in cash
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Interview with Jonathan Swan, the national political correspondent at Axios, on becoming an internet meme, interviewing Trump, migrating to the Biden beat, more — Jonathan Swan, the star national political correspondent at Axios, has built a reputation as one of the most enterprising …
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@dlippman, @jacobkornbluh and @pauldemko
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