International News Media Association / Chitranshu Tewari
How Newslaundry built a news app requested and funded by its readers →“Our listeners, who until then could listen to our podcasts on platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcast, wrote to us about the need for an app that offered a seamless listening experience for paywall podcasts. But rolling out an app at a resource-starved, independent newsroom requires a big budget, so we turned to our readers.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The Verge / Adi Robertson
Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue →“…the Department of Justice is focusing on the real moneymaker behind Google Search: ads. It alleges that Google’s dominance lets it raise prices for advertisers with few repercussions — a claim backed up by Google ads executive Jerry Dischler on the stand.”
Reuters / David Shepardson
18 U.S. states are backing Montana’s effort to ban TikTok →“The state attorneys general led by Virginia and including Georgia, Alaska, Utah, Indiana, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and South Dakota said the suits from TikTok and users should be rejected ‘because TikTok intentionally engages in deceptive business practices which induce individuals to share sensitive personal information that can be easily accessed by the Chinese Communist Party and because TikTok’s platform harms children in Montana.'”
Center for Cooperative Media / Joe Amditis