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Aron Pilhofer (now here journa.host/@pilhofer)
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New from me at on the bad news bears JCPA bill that only a hedge fund could love. It's dead, but it has Michael Myers qualities: "The bill intended to protect local news would ... [pay] people creating the problem the JCPA’s backers want to solve."
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Have just watched episode 1 of Meghan and Harry. It bore only a passing resemblance to much of the advance billing. Why does neutral reporting fly out of the window with this couple? Rather reinforces the thrust of the film.
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Bout’s lawyer’s name is seriously Steve Zissou?
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This is super cool!
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Today, we have moved another step forward. Thanks to the support of @GoogleNewsInit, and especially @mtrpires, we launched the NPA Brazil chapter! 
It will be a cooperatively-created community of practice to advance news product management in the country.
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It will be a cooperatively-created community of practice to advance news product management in the country.
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With respect, the day pass is in no way a new invention. @thetimes had them in 2010:
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@ocregister in 2013:
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McClatchy papers had them for a while:
twitter.com/Lindy_Lu_Lu/st
People just don't buy them in meaningful numbers.
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I've written here a ton about the why micropayments will never a be a thing for news. A $1.49 day pass is different, and a very smart approach because there is zero change of existing subscribers trading down. An annual digital sub costs $195. 365 day passes: $544. This is smart.
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Finally, a newspaper figures out that out-of-town readers are willing to pay a buck or two to read a story! It's unbelievable that it took 20+ years of online journalism to figure this out. Kudos to the @wvgazettemail.
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Also: nothing provides for anyone automatically joining the cartel. Membership is subject to the criteria and approval of those who set it up. Want to guess how they’ll treat small players…? H/t for that.
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The NNPA - The Black Press - won't be helped by the #JCPA, its CEO notes. Part of that is the $100k cap on qualifying publishers; for those larger than that, it's in markets dominated by hedge fund-owned publications. texasmetronews.com/45431/proposed
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Checking back to see if I’m missing anything heeerrrreeee and no I’m not, see you back at Mastodon.
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This is f'ing amazing. Our Product Community of Practice at 's Tow-Knight Center had a few dozen members. Then & came calling. Now the News Product Alliance has 1,800 members. Wow!
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We now host a community of 1800 Product thinkers AND we are currently on track to becoming our own independent 501(c) (3) non-profit organization.
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SCOOP: Maggie Haberman gets exclusive interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes about his dinner at Mar-a-Lago, will reveal in her tell-all sequel to CONFIDENCE MAN to published by Penguin Random House on January 21, 2024
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Genius.
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This morning while we were listening to The Daily, my four year-old turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why are there no pictures of Naomi Biden's wedding in the Times?" When I told him "because Vogue got an exclusive", he started crying.
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Bob Iger just sent a company wide email telling all employees to print out their ten best pages of scripts and bring them to the 15th floor of Disney HQ by 1am for review
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This thread is amazing, not just for the sausage-related content.
"A 'sweezee' is a cup of coffee"
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1885: "[one of the] "fly" names our customers bestow upon things"
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... You showed up on the second page of my "ben" search.
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OMG, Mastodon .... is.... adorable!
I was searching for 's account to follow, and just for the heck of it searched for just "julia" ....
There were four.
Love it.
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Welp. I'm on Mastodon.
@pilhofer@journa.host
So far my timeline(?) is 100 percent ... but it's early days.
At least had the decency to set it up so you don't have to freakin' Toot! Might be worth moving just for that, .
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Head of FIFA and Emir of Qatar doing their special handshake
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Tell us you are souless, money-grubbing SOBs without... or actually, just tell us.
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Steve Spielberg: extremely hardcore.
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Thom Orlando: still onboard and extremely hardcore.
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So nice to see which corporations have not abandoned Elon. Really a classy bunch.
At least Elon will get the first overall draft pick next year
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Oooh… is this new? How do I get the “automated” badge?
I think my favorite Twitter moments over the past 48-ish hours are the pronouncements from folks whose experience with technology begins and ends with an on button confidently telling the world Twitter will be juuust fine.
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And the… non-apology explanation. It didn’t meet the Post’s standards. Here’s everything that’s wrong with journalism in a single tweet, part two. Well done.
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I deleted an earlier tweet about campus journalism at the University of Virginia because it didn't meet Washington Post social media standards. Its tone was inappropriate and snide, so it doesn't deserve to remain here.
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T minus 107 minutes for Twitter employees to take a definitive position on the "extremely hardcore" vs. "merely regular hardcore" question
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This.
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This is awful and you should apologize to these students. Do you not know how aggressively they have covered this story?
You won't help student journalists by beating them up while they're covering a traumatic event, one that most pros never experienced as students. Be kind.
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What they are not telling you: along with those pictures will come an incessant barrage of subscription requests, “opt out” newsletters and just about anything else the Star can offer to get a sub. I understand it the urgency, but wow. This is bad on so many levels.
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In an effort to connect with the community, the @KCStar will be sending out their “world-class photographers” to take your free holiday portraits. This is a new low for visual journalists working for news organizations. kansascity.com/news/business/
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Remarkable. Here is everything that’s wrong with the industry in one tweet. Congrats! twitter.com/mffisher/statu
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If the goal of news is to provide information to help people 1) navigate their circumstances 2) understand the circumstances of others 3) participate in processes that affect circumstances; news orgs are competing with everything that benefits when people have less information.
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I'm thrilled about all the progress being made in local news but the fact that the caption of the first image of this story is still framing this as a competition within journalism means that far too many folks are still missing the point.
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Opinion: A surprising good-news story offers hope for local media. Powered by foundations and individual donors, promising examples of nonprofit news organizations are showing how to turn the tide on a struggling industry. @SarabethBerman @JournalismProj phlnthrp.com/3tB82Uj
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Oooh this… good tweet here. Very good.
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Replying to @codeodor and @leahculver
A risky move. The new boss might see that as a personal criticism, and fire her on the spot.
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Ding.
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Report: Top Twitter engineer fired after telling Musk that “irregardless” is not a word.
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In these trying times, this is not something I say lightly: But yesterday felt like a triumph.
After more than a year of planning, my vision to build the Center for Journalism & Democracy came to fruition when we launched the with the Democracy Summit.
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