The Washington Post wants to give you a good deal on a digital subscription — from now until 2072
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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The Washington Post wants to give you a good deal on a digital subscription — from now until 2072Anyone who tells you they know what digital news will look like in 50 years is lying. But the Post — with an owner rich enough to allow a decades-long time horizon — says it’ll still only cost you $50 a year. By Joshua Benton. |
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What We’re Reading
CNET / Katie Collins
TikTok is cracking down on “get rich quick” schemes and undisclosed ads, in line with EU rules →
“The updated policy also prohibits the promotion of ‘inappropriate products and services,’ such as alcohol, cigarettes and ‘get rich quick’ schemes. Paid ads will be identified with a new label, and users will be prompted to switch on a toggle when publishing content captioned with brand-related keywords such as #ad or #sponsored. Users with more than 10,000 followers will have their videos reviewed against TikTok’s guidelines.”
Associated Press
Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize to help displaced Ukrainian children →
The medal sold for nearly $104 million — a record for a Nobel medal — to “an unidentified phone bidder.”
The Guardian / Fiona Harvey
Truthful climate reporting shifts viewpoints, but only briefly, according to a new study →
“Researchers who ran an experiment in the US to find out how people responded to media reporting on the climate found that people's views of climate science really were shifted by reading reporting that accurately reflected scientific findings. They were also more willing to back policies that would tackle the problem. But the effect quickly faded, especially when people were exposed to other media that cast doubt on climate science.”
CNN / Clare Duffy
“This is a very crucial beat”: Behind the Associated Press’s decision to appoint a democracy editor →
“Tom Verdin — a more than 20-year veteran of the AP who spent the past seven years leading its state government team — will take up the role, managing coverage on challenges to democracy, voting rights, election processes and related areas. Although such topics are often considered the purview of politics and government journalists, the current threats to democracy both in the United States and abroad called for the attention of a dedicated editor, according to AP executive editor Julie Pace.”
Gallup
More Americans are relying on smartphones for daily tasks like reading news articles and shopping online →
In 2022, 53% of Americans said they spend more time reading articles on their smartphones than on their computers — up 24 percentage points since 2015.
Mother Jones / Jeremy Fassler
Simon & Schuster will distribute the Jan. 6 report with a foreword by conspiracy theorist →
“Though the report and this foreword do not yet exist, the announcement raises the possibility that Simon & Schuster, one of the top publishing houses in the United States, will be disseminating disinformation about the assault on Congress.”
Gawker / Patrick Marlborough
This Australian wants to be able to mute America →
“The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss.”
The New York Times / Mark Landler
What happened to a story published in The Times of London that criticized Prime Minister Boris Johnson? →
“The most talked-about article in the British newspapers last weekend was one that featured juicy allegations of love, ambition and thwarted corruption at the pinnacle of the British government. Then it vanished abruptly from the pages of The Times of London in the early hours of Saturday.”
News Revenue Hub / Katie Hawkins-Gaar
How Bridge Michigan built a membership program that’s on track to raise $1 million →
"We've found after six years of doing this kind of fundraising nonstop that there are different personality types of consumers," [Hub CEO and co-founder Mary Walter-Brown] explained. Some readers are motivated to become members because of a newsroom's mission or journalism's larger impact on democracy. Others are motivated by helping newsrooms achieve a tangible goal, like hiring a reporter or expanding into a new geographic area.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The complicated conversation about the impact of the January 6 hearings →
“We can't make news consumers care about the January 6 hearings, however we might decide to measure their reaction. But we shouldn't give them a pretext not to care either.”
A Media Operator / Jacob Donnelly
The subscription business remains an uphill climb for news organizations →
“If the news is so vital for our core democracy, it almost feels like a must for people to read it so that democracy doesn't die. And yet, news companies are charging for information and putting a barrier between the reader and that information. If the news is so essential for the very fabric of our society, charging for it gets in the way of protecting said democracy.”
Bloomberg / Gaspard Sebag
Google avoids more fines after settling its disputes with French news publishers →
“Google brought an end to a dispute with publishers and avoided further fines after winning regulatory approval for pledges that pave the way for payments for displaying snippets of their news articles on its platforms.”
The Guardian / Edward Helmore
Why CNN is shifting its tenor from partisanship news to a political center →
“Among the reforms, Licht directed network anchors and producers to stop using the phrase "The Big Lie" to describe attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election – in part because it's a Democratic party catchphrase. He is said to prefer the more specific ‘Trump's lie’ or ‘lies about the election’.”
The Washington Post / Sarah Ellison
Fox News paid $15 million to former host Melissa Francis who filed a pay disparity claim →
“Although the kind of sum won by Melissa Francis, an on-air personality for several shows on Fox News and Fox Business Network from 2012 to 2020, is unusual in television news, it underscores perennial concerns that women do not prosper as well as men in this industry — an issue Francis says she personally attempted to investigate by researching what her peers earned at Fox.”
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