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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: Ev Williams says Fox News is more powerful and destructive than Twitter and the posting of false claims is part of the tradeoff of an open platform like Medium -
Alex Heath / Cheddar: Source says Medium has 200K-400K paying subscribers, which at $50 per user amounts to a minimum of $10M per year from subscriptions alone -
Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle: Under fire for raid on Bryan Carmody's home, SF's Police Chief claims Carmody took part in a criminal conspiracy to steal an internal police report -
Thomas Peele / Mercury News: Judge orders return of San Francisco journalist Bryan Carmody's equipment, delays consideration of legal questions about the search until June -
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Avaaz study finds extensive far-right disinformation networks on Facebook ahead of EU elections; Facebook says it removed 77 Pages and 230 accounts in response -
Max Willens / Digiday: The Guardian launches an investigative series, Toxic America, and seeks $150K in donations to increase its coverage of toxic chemicals in 2019 -
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Roku launches tool that uses data from its 29M users to show advertisers how many more people they could reach by shifting budgets from linear to OTT TV -
James Walker / Press Gazette: Brexit Party says ban on Channel 4 reporters has been lifted; Channel 4 News denies claims reporters “repeatedly lied” to gain access to a secure area at rally -
Sara Fischer / Axios: IAC's Dotdash, which owns sites including Investopedia and Verywell, is launching a line of paint, tied to its home decor site The Spruce, to be sold on Amazon -
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Press Secretary Sarah Sanders last appeared in the White House briefing room on March 11, but has appeared at least 12 times on Fox News since that date -
The Irish Times: The Times Ireland announces it will cease publication of its print edition and cut staff from 20 to 3 for continued work on digital products -
Darryl Holliday / City Bureau: Journalists should not focus just on informing and engaging the public, but also collaborating with and equipping citizens to participate in democracy -
Joel Mathis / KLC Journal: Case study of dwindling newspapers in Kansas: interviews with leaders at McClatchy, Ogden, and GateHouse, in which GateHouse's CEO denies its model is predatory