“When was the last time you saw Twitch introduce something that revolutionized the live content community, the creator ecosystem or the content economy?”

“Publisher Jimmy Finkelstein has poached several current and former well-known staffers away from the New York Post to join the Messenger.” (Our story from yesterday about The Messenger here.)

“Leroy Chapman, 52, a managing editor, has been with the AJC since 2011. He shepherded coverage of a number of high-profile stories, including efforts to undermine Georgia’s 2020 election results and the court cases of teachers and administrators charged in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal.”

“Before Logan Roy, there was Rupert Murdoch. Without Vice, there would be no Vaulter.”

“Fox lawyers had submitted a letter to the judge on Monday asking that Mr. Murdoch and some other executives not be compelled to testify, saying that it would amount to ‘hardships’ on the witnesses and that their testimony would ‘add nothing other than media interest.'”

The Provincetown Independent’s application to the American Journalism Project and Google News Initiative’s Local News Incubator was denied ‘because we did not agree to drop Constant Contact and adopt MailChimp before applying, and we did not agree to use Google’s news platform for our website going forward.'”

Apple will use theaters to market its streaming service.

University of Chicago Institute of Politics (IOP) and our own Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are sponsoring. Travel stipends will be provided for some attendees from local news organizations.

The Times spent more than three years reporting on the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in every county in the United States every day.

“Events accounted for 30 percent of Semafor’s revenue in 2022, and that is expected to increase this year.”

“More debt? Mike [Reed] is your guy. Distant, unresponsive ownership? Where’s Mike? Fewer journalists? Nobody’s better at sending them to the unemployment line than Mike.”