All of Charter Spectrum’s 28 million internet, TV, and mobile customers get free access to the app. Local news partners include the Texas Tribune; Tampa Bay Business Journal; WisPolitics, a Wisconsin online news outlet; Orlando, Florida NPR affiliate WMFE-FM; and nonprofit New York outlet The City.

“There’s currently a glut of independent talent that could be creating subscription-only content in areas that would dramatically augment the value of a local news subscription.”

“Many publishers earn so-called affiliate revenue, the slice of revenue they get when they help generate a sale, by linking from product mentions to retailers that finish the transactions. But shopping directly on media sites may become more common as consumer habits change and publishers continue to seek revenue beyond ad sales.”

Its proposed bill “explicitly forbids the verification of any statement on ‘social media, blogs, generic websites, print, online outlets and broadcasters’ unless the media organization publicly states its affiliation, if any, to a political party, government or ideology. The bill also prohibits the fact-checking of ‘opinions’ and includes a provision by which fact-checkers can be held legally liable for labelling them as ‘fake news.'”

Custom hybrid partnership packages based on client needs; active relationship-building with businesses; a large and loyal audience; and investing in business talent and workflows.

“I spend a lot of time on the pavement on my knees, and sometimes on my back, getting views from behind the barricades. The only thing I can do is be as marked up as I can and just hope I don’t get killed.”

“The propagandists have created and disseminated disinformation since at least March 2017, with a focus on undermining NATO and the US troops in Poland and the Baltics…Ghostwriter has deployed a bolder tactic: hacking the content management systems of news websites to post their own stories.”

“As it happened, both Ken Schwencke, the editor of our news apps team, and Derek Willis, one of our news applications developers, were at the beach. They quickly gathered up their towels and raced back to their computers.”

Specifically, “a reporter for the New York Times [Mike Baker] and the editor in chief of the blog Lawfare [Benjamin Wittes].” “The intelligence reports, obtained by The Washington Post, include written descriptions and images of [the two journalists’] tweets and the number of times they had been liked or retweeted by others.”

“On July 22, VOA’s Urdu service, which is targeted to Urdu-speaking audiences in Pakistan, India and around the world, posted content on its website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages about an online event Biden did reaching out to Muslim Americans as he urged them to vote for him in November.”

“Amazon’s ‘other’ category, which mostly covers the company’s advertising business, was up 41% to $4.22 billion in revenue” in Q2. But it has a way to go before the duopoly becomes a true triopoly: Google and Facebook’s Q2 ad revenues were $29.9 billion and $18.3 billion, respectively.

Partnering with the existing Philadelphia Public School Notebook. “The two organizations now will collaborate in order to benefit from streamlined roles and administrative overhead, a broader reach, and greater financial stability.”

“It’s one of the most amusing ongoing appendage-measuring contests in media, a relic of the TV era…Every month, like the cycles of the moon, email blasts land simultaneously in the inboxes of reporters who have, one should hope, much better things to cover these days than cable networks’ online traffic figures.”

“North Face, arguably the first widely known brand to join the campaign, said it would resume doing business with Facebook in August. So did boycotters including Heineken, Puma, Vans and Pernod Ricard. ‘We are encouraged by the initial progress and recognize that change doesn’t happen overnight,’ a spokeswoman for North Face told CMO Today.”

Newsroom leadership is 77.5% white.