the Guardian
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Jim Waterson
– May 1, 2019, 1:00 AM
The Guardian and the Observer have broken even for the first time in recent history aided by record online traffic, reduced costs and increased financial contributions from readers. Guardian News & Media recorded an £800,000 operating profit…
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Bloomberg
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Alexandre Tanzi
– Apr 27, 2019, 6:00 AM
Photographer: Gino Domenico/Bloomberg Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is pessimistic on the newspaper industry at a time when public relations specialists are increasingly outnumbering journalists. Public relations jobs exceeded those of…
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missingnumbers.org
– Apr 26, 2019, 8:31 AM
Today I'm launching a new project, Missing Numbers. Missing Numbers is a blog about the data that the government should collect and measure in the UK, but doesn't. I'm a data analyst and programmer who cares about social justice. Over the years…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Jillian C. York
– Apr 29, 2019, 8:10 AM
Social media platforms regularly engage in “content moderation”—the depublication, downranking, and sometimes outright censorship of information and/or user accounts from social media and other digital platforms, usually based…
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The Daily Beast
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Maxwell Tani
– Apr 30, 2019, 11:56 AM
As part of a major restructuring effort that could affect 25 staffers. Two of the top editorial employees at the company formerly known as Gizmodo Media Group are departing amid restructuring that will result in at least 25 staffers exiting the…
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The Conversation
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Merja Myllylahti
– Apr 29, 2019, 6:15 PM
This week New Zealand's largest newspaper, the NZ Herald, launched digital subscriptions for its online content, making history at the same time. Its paywall is the first for a general newspaper in New Zealand. Back in 2011, the NZ Herald's parent…
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Digiday
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Max Willens
– Apr 29, 2019, 5:01 PM
The Times, which has been participating in the NewFronts since 2014, has historically used the platform to plug shiny new formats including virtual reality, or its storytelling prowess. But with advertisers still leery of news as a category and…
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TechCrunch
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Anthony Ha
– Apr 29, 2019, 8:30 AM
Twitter is unveiling a number of new content deals and renewals tonight at its NewFronts event for digital advertisers. It's only been two years since Twitter first joined the NewFronts. At the time, coverage suggested that executives saw the…
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SportsBusiness Daily
– Apr 29, 2019
ESPN is ending the print version of ESPN the Magazine in September, more than 21 years after its launch. The news of the print magazine's demise was announced to staff this morning as part of a reorganization of Senior VP/Original Content Rob King…
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eMarketer
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Blake Droesch
– Apr 25, 2019, 5:00 PM
Fewer people in the US are accessing social networking sites via computers, with the majority of users now exclusively on mobile devices. We forecast that 51.7% of US social network users will be mobile-only in 2019. As smartphone use grows, fewer…
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