Canada offered a tax credit to encourage digital news subscriptions. Here’s how it’s going.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022
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Canada offered a tax credit to encourage digital news subscriptions. Here’s how it’s going.Data from the tax credit’s first year is now available. The effect has been muted. By Sarah Scire. |
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What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
The New York Times has doubled its Opinion staff since 2017 →
The Opinion team now includes 150 people, including 35 working on Opinion audio. (There was one person working on Opinion audio at the beginning of 2020.) The editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, said Opinion is among the best retention vehicles for the Times’ subscription.
Fortune / Nicholas Gordon
Elon Musk's Twitter purchase leaves global media increasingly in the pockets of a few billionaires →
A look into the billionaires buying newspapers, magazines, and media empires.
Boston Globe / Amber Payne and Deborah D. Douglas
The Emancipator, the first abolitionist newspaper in the U.S., is reborn →
Co-editors in chief Amber Payne and Deborah D. Douglas laid out their vision for a “commentary-forward platform” that’ll add “context and depth to achieve racial justice and our nation's True North — a functioning democracy.” The newsroom was co-founded by the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research and Boston Globe Media.
Axios / Sara Fischer
The numbers behind CNN+ →
“We did not hear a self-declared appetite for more premium live news shows from any of our personas,” one internal research document concluded, after conducting interviews with potential CNN+ customers.
Rest of World / Peter Guest
Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent →
Multinational companies have turned censorship into an off-the-shelf product.
FT / Javier Espinoza
“Elon, there are rules”: EU warns Elon Musk over Twitter moderation plans →
“[EU commissioner Thierry] Breton said he wanted to offer a ‘reality check’ to Musk's plans for less stringent moderation. The EU commissioner, who was key in negotiating the new Digital Services Act, warned that a lack of compliance from Twitter risked a ban for the platform in Europe.”
Chicago Tribune / Robert Channick
A Chicago Reader co-owner has stepped down amid employee protests, freeing the alt weekly to go nonprofit →
"We cannot continue the fight without destroying the Reader," [Chicago Reader co-owner Len] Goodman said in a statement. "I am stepping aside. I will sign off on the sale so that the Reader can transition immediately to NFP status."
The New York Times Company
Dean Baquet’s next role at The New York Times will be leading a new local investigative journalism fellowship →
The Times says it’ll offer co-publication of the fellows’ work at no cost to local print, digital, radio and TV outlets.
Poynter / Alex Sujong Laughlin
The end of Bitch Media and the paradox of mission-oriented media →
“While organizations may pursue both money and mission, one is always more significant to an organization's identity.”
The Verge / James Vincent
Google, Meta, and others will have to explain their algorithms under new EU legislation →
The Digital Services Act “will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on their platforms. New obligations include removing illegal content and goods more quickly, explaining to users and researchers how their algorithms work, and taking stricter action on the spread of misinformation. Companies face fines of up to 6 percent of their annual turnover for noncompliance.”
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