Spotify hikes its Premium subscription in France by €0.13 to €11.12, to match the 1.2% music-streaming levy imposed by the country at the start of 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Mediagazer: Spotify hikes its Premium subscription in France by €0.13 to €11.12, to match the 1.2% music-streaming levy imposed by the country at the start of 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

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Reuters Institute:

A survey in six countries shows 32% of respondents think human editors check AI outputs before publishing them; many haven't made up their minds yet about AI— Based on an online survey focused on understanding if and how people use generative artificial intelligence (AI) …
Discussion:

Tom Singleton /
BBC: AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says

Claes de Vreese /
Claes de Vreese on LinkedIn: This report from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows the big differences in public knowledge about and usage of generative AI. …

Federica Cherubini /
Federica Cherubini on LinkedIn: How do people think about the use of generative AI in news and society? — The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published today a new report that looks at this question. … @risj_oxford: How do people think #generativeAI will transform journalism and society as a whole? This is the question at the heart of a new report based on survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰 🇫🇷🇯🇵 🇬🇧🇺🇸 🧵10 findings in thread 📱Full report by @richrdfletcher & @rasmus_kleis #WNMC24 https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... [image]

Simon Willison /
@simonw: @edzitron 18% of the 2,012 survey respondents in the USA said they were using ChatGPT on a daily or weekly basis - that's actually higher than I would have expected! https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... [image]

Trevor Mogg /
Digital Trends: Few people are using ChatGPT and other AI tools regularly, study suggests

Robert Scoble /
@scobleizer: “47% of Americans say they have never even heard of ChatGPT” When @stevewoz started Apple with Steve Jobs they offered their ideas to their bosses at existing technology companies who, Woz told me, turned them down because no one thought Americans would buy a personal computer.

Richard Fletcher /
@richrdfletcher: New @risj_oxford report on generative AI and news in 6 countries 3 key findings 1. ChatGPT is by far the most widely recognised product. ~50% have heard of it (chart). It is also by far the most widely used, but frequent use is rare. ~10% use it weekly. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... [image]

Mitali Mukherjee /
Mitali Mukherjee on LinkedIn: How do people think #generativeAI will transform journalism and society as a whole? Our latest work at Reuters Institute for the Study …

Ethan Mollick /
@emollick: You are both early (47% of Americans say they have never even heard of ChatGPT) and also surprisingly on time (I would not have expected that 7% of Americans are already using ChatGPT daily, and almost 1 in 5 Americans use an LLM at least weekly) Survey: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... [image]

Florent Daudens /
@fdaudens: 4 takeaways from the latest @risj_oxford survey on the use of Generative AI, with a focus on journalism: - B/w 20% and 30% of the online population in the six countries surveyed - have not heard of any of the most popular AI tools. - Younger people are much more likely to use

Charlesarthur /
The Overspill: Start Up No.2232: Google search algorithm leaks, the AI disinformation problem, spying on the ICC, Chinese GPT spam?, and more @trf: ✍️ What does the public think of #GenerativeAI in news? With our support, @risj_oxford's new survey looks at how people believe AI is going to transform journalism and society as a whole. Here are some of the key findings. 🧵 https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... [image]

The Guardian:

News Corp Australia reorganizes its mastheads into free, subscription-based tabloids, and prestige titles, and lets go of news.com.au EIC Lisa Muxworthy— Staff told some people will ‘regrettably leave our business’ as media empire is reorganised into three divisions

Discussion:

Sam Buckingham-Jones /
Australian Financial Review: News Corp unveils major restructure, with editors shown the door

Gina Rushton /
@ginarush: “To dump an accomplished woman who's better at her job than anyone else in this country... is disgusting.” News Corp sources not happy Lisa Muxworthy — editor in chief of the nation's most read news site — is a casualty in restructure. https://www.crikey.com.au/...

Marcus Kelson /
@marcuskelson: An unnamed source said: “Replacing a digital media giant of Lisa's exceptional talent with the guy who runs a newspaper fewer and fewer people read, with its shitty website no-one reads, tells you everything you need to know about News Corp. https://www.crikey.com.au/...

Mark Di Stefano /
@markdistef: Kim Williams is laughing somewhere. @crikey_news: “Disgusting”: Incensed News Corp staff have teed off after the company's major restructure saw the departure of much-loved editorial leads. @daanysaeed reports. https://www.crikey.com.au/...

Amanda Meade /
@meadea: Updated: Rupert Murdoch's Australian media empire has been reorganised into mastheads which are free, tabloids which are subscription-based and so-called prestige titles the Australian newspaper and Vogue magazine. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Daanyal Saeed /
Crikey: ‘Outrageous and stupid’: First major redundancies revealed as News Corp swings axe

Malcolm Farr /
@farrm51: From SMH on News Corp overhaul. In effect, Australia's largest employer of journalists has adopted a national model, which it hopes will enable it to complete the transition from a print to a fully digital media company.

Nathan Jolly /
Mumbrella: ‘People will regrettably leave our business’: News Corp dumps editors, restructures publishing teams

John Buckley /
@johnbuckley_: NEW: News Corp stalwart Nicholas Gray a winner in restructure as union awaits details of job cuts via @CapitalBrief https://www.capitalbrief.com/ ...

Financial Times:

Letter: Vivek Ramaswamy calls for BuzzFeed to axe staff, focus on video, and hire new voices, like Tucker Carlson, after raising his stake in BuzzFeed to 8.3%— Former US Republican presidential candidate urges media group to hire from ‘across the political spectrum’

Discussion:
CNN, Poynter, Vivek Ramaswamy, New York Times, Business Insider, @benmullin, @mattzeitlin, @tomgara, @pkafka, @mattgertz, @chrisgeidner, New York Post, @rafat, @willystaley, @kenbensinger, @jamesrbuk, @briannachesser, The Information, Variety, Deadline, City A.M., The Guardian, Axios, The Wrap, @james.tartarus.org, Bloomberg, Fox Business and The Hollywood Reporter

Discussion:
Vivek Ramaswamy: To the Board of Directors of BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed has lost its way. The company was a pioneer …

Benjamin Mullin /
New York Times: BuzzFeed Clashes With Vivek Ramaswamy

Ben Mullin /
@benmullin: Here's Jonah Peretti's response to Vivek Ramaswamy: “Based on your letter, you have some fundamental misunderstandings about the drivers of our business...” And Vivek's letter: “BuzzFeed has lost its way.” [image]

Matthew Zeitlin /
@mattzeitlin: Seems pretty clear Vivek is trying to do elon twitter to what remains of BuzzFeed

Tom Gara /
@tomgara: Vivek to BuzzFeed: “The silver lining is that your competitors' records are equally bad”

Peter Kafka /
@pkafka: So Vivek Ramaswamy has a long list of BuzzFeed demands (tldr: turn it into Elon Twitter 2.0, which...) but no explanation of how he wrenches Jonah Peretti's control of the company away so 🤷 ♂️. [image]

Matthew Gertz /
@mattgertz: Also don't sleep on wealthy right-wingers doing hostile takeovers of media outlets, perhaps with the feds pressuring companies to sell to them. https://x.com/... @chrisgeidner: Having to choose sides here is both easy and depressing. Fuck Vivek. (But also, get that Pulitzer out of your mouth, Jonah. You gutted the newsroom after using hundreds of us to gain value/credibility/prestige for your company.)

Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: Vivek Ramaswamy demands BuzzFeed hire Bill Maher, Tucker Carlson, Charles Barkley and Aaron Rodgers

Willy /
@willystaley: That's cool. I bought 9 percent of BuzzFeed and I'm going to call for it to become Skate Grantland.

Ken Bensinger /
@kenbensinger: Strange that Vivek makes zero mention of HuffPost in his activist letter to the BF board, instead focusing on BuzzFeed News, which doesn't even exist anymore.

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: Suspect Ramaswamy doesn't really realise all of the BuzzFeed journalistic operation and most of the HuffPost ones were jettisoned long ago. Does he know what he's actually bought into?

Brianna Chesser /
@briannachesser: He realizes that shifting (back) to video is more expensive than listicles, right? Go ruin your own thing.

Martin Peers /
The Information: Ramaswamy Plays BuzzFeed For Attention

Todd Spangler /
Variety: Pro-Trump Investor Vivek Ramaswamy Says BuzzFeed Should Make ‘Large-Scale’ Layoffs and Hire Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Aaron Rodgers

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: New BuzzFeed Investor Vivek Ramaswamy Asks For Big Changes & Apology

Callum Jones /
The Guardian: Vivek Ramaswamy uses Buzzfeed stake to demand staff cuts, conservative hires

Kerry Flynn /
Axios: Vivek Ramaswamy calls for job cuts at BuzzFeed

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Vivek Ramaswamy Calls for New Buzzfeed Board Members, Heavy Cost-Cutting After Major Investment

James Aylett /
@james.tartarus.org: Focus on video, eh? I hadn't realised it was 2015 again. [embedded post]

Bradford Betz /
Fox Business: Vivek Ramaswamy pushes for BuzzFeed board seats, says company has lost its way

Business Insider:

Americans' visits to movie theaters have been falling since the early 2000s, coinciding with broadband internet growth; Hollywood is reacting by raising prices— - Hollywood had a miserable Memorial Day weekend — one of the worst it has had in decades. — But this shouldn't be a surprise …

Discussion:
@tvgrimreaper, Los Angeles Times, @bsdtectr.bsky.social and @tvgrimreaper

Discussion:

Mary McNamara /
Los Angeles Times: Hollywood's high-pressure expectations game has created a box office doom loop @bsdtectr.bsky.social: Executives always take the wrong lessons in these situations. [embedded post] @tvgrimreaper: Somebody please check me, but I'm pretty sure that per-capita visits to movie theaters have been falling for closer to a century.

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The Hollywood Reporter:
Comscore: Memorial Day weekend box office grossed an estimated $128.3M, a 29-year low, excluding 2020 and 2021, and down ~37% YoY; Furiosa led with just $32M

Discussion:
The Wrap, Albert Fong on LinkedIn, Paul Dergarabedian on LinkedIn, New York Times, Variety, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, @patrickbigpix, Steve Siskind on LinkedIn, Washington Post, IGN, JoBlo, NBC News, Associated Press, Screen Rant, CNN, The A.V. Club, The Wrap, Business Insider, Deadline, Screen Rant, ComingSoon.net, Forbes and IndieWire

Discussion:

Jeremy Fuster /
The Wrap: 4 Reasons Why the Memorial Day Box Office Was So Awful and What it Means for a Struggling Theatrical Business

Albert Fong /
Albert Fong on LinkedIn: Like most sequels, this one leaves many wanting. With the lowest box office results in nearly three decades, this Memorial Day weekend could be called “Wasteland”. …

Paul Dergarabedian /
Paul Dergarabedian on LinkedIn: Honored to have our Comscore, Inc. data and comments as part of Brooks Barnes excellent reporting for The New York Times …

Brooks Barnes /
New York Times: ‘Furiosa’ Is a Box Office Dud, Adding to Hollywood Woes

Rebecca Rubin /
Variety: Box Office: ‘Furiosa’ Just Barely Beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in Disastrous Memorial Day Weekend — the Worst in Decades

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Hollywood suffers rough holiday weekend at box office

Ryan Faughnder /
Los Angeles Times: What the Live Nation suit is really about (Hint: It's not Taylor Swift)

Patrick Goldstein /
@patrickbigpix: Really a stretch to blame Hollywood's Memorial Day weekend box-office fiasco on strike-related delays instead of total lack of audience interest in mediocre movies: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...

Steve Siskind /
Steve Siskind on LinkedIn: Furiosa, the heroine and the movie, both faced long odds in the at times treacherous entertainment landscape of 2024 …

Adam Bankhurst /
IGN: Furiosa Wins the Domestic Weekend Box Office But Has the Worst Memorial Day Opening in 30 Years

Chris Bumbray /
JoBlo: Memorial Day Box Office: Furiosa beats Garfield by under $1 million for the 4-day weekend

Lindsey Bahr /
Associated Press: ‘Furiosa’ sneaks past ‘Garfield’ to claim No. 1 spot over Memorial Day holiday weekend

Lewis Glazebrook /
Screen Rant: Furiosa's Box Office Opening Explained: What The Hell Happened With The Mad Max Prequel?!

Drew Gillis /
The A.V. Club: Furiosa barely ekes out victory over Garfield at the weekend box office

Jeremy Fuster /
The Wrap: ‘Furiosa’ Leads Worst Memorial Day Box Office Since the '90s With $32 Million Opening

Anthony D'Alessandro /
Deadline: ‘Furiosa’ Wins Awful Memorial Day Frame With $32M+, But ‘Garfield’ Will Bite Back Next Weekend - Tuesday Update

Hannah Gearan /
Screen Rant: Furiosa Box Office Narrowly Beats Garfield In Worst Memorial Day Weekend In Decades

Vansh Mehra /
ComingSoon.net: Furiosa Box Office Ties With Garfield but Misfires on Memorial Day Weekend

Tim Lammers /
Forbes: ‘Garfield’ Battles ‘Furiosa’ At Memorial Day Weekend Box Office With $32M Debut

Tom Brueggemann /
IndieWire: ‘Furiosa’ and ‘Garfield’ Fight for #1, but There Are No Winners

Vanity Fair:

A profile of Lisa Rubin, a corporate lawyer turned MSNBC legal correspondent, who has covered Trump's NY trial and has been on air 275+ times since January— The corporate lawyer turned correspondent is having a moment on the cable news channel, relaying all the daily drama from the camera-free courtroom.

Discussion:
@brianstelter, @richardhudock, @steve_vladeck, @lawofruby and @jayshams

Discussion:

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: “We have to bring all of those vivid details to people's living rooms. Everything that our eyes can ingest and our ears can hear, we have to recast for the audience at home. Because without it, all they have is, at best, a transcript and court sketches.” https://www.vanityfair.com/...

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: You've probably been following @LawOfRuby's coverage of the Trump trial. You probably don't know how she ended up on @MSNBC. So I profiled her for @VanityFair: https://www.vanityfair.com/... [image]

Richard Hudock /
@richardhudock: .@lawofruby has appeared on @MSNBC 275+ times since January. She has quickly become a go-to trusted and steady voice for breaking down the daily happenings inside 100 Centre Street. https://www.vanityfair.com/...

Steve Vladeck /
@steve_vladeck: Love this @brianstelter story about @lawofruby—who, as anyone in our law school class could've told you, was always going to be phenomenally successful at something different.

Lisa Rubin /
@lawofruby: Life and careers don't always move in a straight line. Thanks to @brianstelter for sharing my very wavy path to @msnbc: https://www.vanityfair.com/...

TechCrunch:

Spotify hikes its Premium subscription in France by €0.13 to €11.12, to match the 1.2% music-streaming levy imposed by the country at the start of 2023— Spotify has hiked the price for its premium subscription in France by an eye-watering €0.13 in response …

The Guardian:

London Evening Standard plans to close its daily paper and launch a weekly, citing £84.5M losses in six years, driven by the Underground adding Wi-Fi and more— Chair Paul Kanareck says newspaper's losses - £84.5m in the past six years - not sustainable

Discussion:
Press Gazette, @pressgazette, @zoenora6, @crankynotions, @chrismsutcliffe, @mendelpol, @nigelwuk, @eduardosuarez, @henrycooke, @mattleys, @nicolelampert, @anthonypainter, @benjaminbutter, @chrismonk, @jamesrbuk, @stephenpollard, @profdaveandress, @owenjones84, @amarjourno, @aubrey_writes, @mrjamesob, @olifranklin, @danhancox, @thewritertype, @sophiasleigh, @ianvisits, @josiahmortimer, @nickw84, @youngvulgarian and @jimwaterson

Discussion:
@pressgazette: Updated with further details: The Evening Standard's chair told staff today that going down to weekly was necessitated by “shorter commuting weeks, widespread Wi-Fi along our commuting routes and the desire for our readers to consume ever-richer content” https://pressgazette.co.uk/...

Zoë Crowther /
@zoenora6: As someone who gets the Northern Line every morning: is the “shortage of commuters” in the room with us?? @crankynotions: It's hard to believe, but the Standard was once a decent paper with excellent coverage of the arts and entertainment. The acerbic Brian Sewell featured there to his very end. My summers were often planned around the culture section. Osborne was no steward, and it got even worse.

Chris Sutcliffe /
@chrismsutcliffe: Question now is whether ES has done enough with its digital offering. It's been diversifying (has done v good work with its flagship podcast) but will it be enough?

Jack Mendel /
@mendelpol: I remember when it was a paid-for paper that went free... now it's about to virtually vanish. What a shame.. https://x.com/...

Nigel Whitfield /
@nigelwuk: As a former hack, I hate to see anything go. But the Standard really didn't appear to be in touch with most Londoners for over a decade. It felt like it imagined the whole city to be like some posh western suburb.

Eduardo Suárez /
@eduardosuarez: Blaming the spread of wifi in 2024 is incredible as a talking point

Henry Cooke /
@henrycooke: this is a tragedy! wifi on the tube is still spotty and the standard is the exact right length to consume in like 10 minutes. huge loss.

Nicole Lampert /
@nicolelampert: Another nail in the coffin of print media. Sad days for all of us who love print and would eagerly anticipate what the Standard splash would be on their way home from work.

Anthony Painter /
@anthonypainter: Or being completely out of touch with the politics of most of London.... https://x.com/...

Benjamin Butterworth /
@benjaminbutter: The sound of “Standard!” will be much missed across London. It has been a great paper at times.

Chris Monk /
@chrismonk: Never been a particular fan of the Standard, but kind of ridiculous to think that a city of 8 million people will no longer have a daily newspaper

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: Feels like there was a missed opportunity to get ahead of some of this during the pandemic - perhaps not helped by the constant boardroom shuffling (and shuffling of editors).

Stephen Pollard /
@stephenpollard: Sad news. My first job in journalism was on the Standard as a leader writer under Max Hastings. It was as close to a dream job as exists. I learned so much and was so proud to be working for such a brilliant paper alongside stellar (and so friendly) colleagues. I really feel for

David Andress /
@profdaveandress: Useful reminder that “the press” is a dying concept, and yet “a newspaper” still seems to provide an agenda-setting national foghorn, heard uncritically by the rest of the media, for any billionaire who wants to buy one.

Owen Jones /
@owenjones84: The Evening Standard seems to have missed another reason for its failure. London became an ever more progressive and diverse city. The Standard remained a reactionary rag more suited to the Tory Shires which was completely out of touch with modern London.

Amar Singh /
@amarjourno: A sad but inevitable development. I still remember the thrill of seeing my byline in the Standard for the first time. It was the paper my Dad would bring home from his daily commute when I was a child. Newspapers are in decline but proper journalism has never been so important.

Elizabeth Aubrey /
@aubrey_writes: I owe so much of my career to the Evening Standard and my initial work there, so this is sad news. They've always been great with freelancers over the years. Another v worrying development for journalism in a year full of worrying developments.

James O'Brien /
@mrjamesob: What a sad loss. Probably doomed from the moment they let a KGB spy buy it & put George Osborne in charge. But still...

Oli Franklin-Wallis /
@olifranklin: Pretty devastating news for the UK newspaper industry. Will never forget being on work experience at the Standard, and receiving sage advice from my editor: 'it isn't a story unless you pick up the phone.' Thoughts with all those affected.

Dan Hancox /
@danhancox: Whatever you think about the Evening Standard's politics, this is sad news — the demise of South Kensington's only daily newspaper

Paul Bassett Davies /
@thewritertype: Your reminder that the Evening Standard is given away free and is still wildly overpriced.

Sophia Sleigh /
@sophiasleigh: Devastating news. Thinking of all the brilliant journalists today. The Evening Standard was a journalistic giant for a long time, setting the agenda for London and often the country. Gutting. @ianvisits: In its heyday, there were three editions of the Evening Standard published through the day as the news was updated. Now, it's going to be one per week.

Josiah Mortimer /
@josiahmortimer: Deeply depressing news. The Standard has been driven into the ground. An endless cycle of cuts, alongside the failed attempts to be a ‘national’ rather than a local newspaper, while being completely out of touch with Londoners on politics and WFH

Nick Walker /
@nickw84: It just looks so non-urgent for a newspaper and has for ages. Seems like mismanagement to me [image]

Marie Le Conte /
@youngvulgarian: this sucks so bad! my favourite journalism job was at the Standard! they fucked up a perfectly good paper is what they did!

Press Gazette:

FT CEO John Ridding says news publishers “have leverage and should insist on payment” from AI companies and disintermediation is the industry's “biggest threat”— Financial Times chief executive John Ridding has told other news publishers they “have leverage and should insist on payment” from AI companies.

Discussion:
MediaPost, @mitalilive, @olifranklin, @ftpressoffice and Talking Biz News

Discussion:

Mitali Mukherjee /
@mitalilive: ⁦@John_Ridding⁩ of ⁦@FinancialTimes⁩ - “The biggest risk to the industry today is disintermediation - separating readers from their publications.” #AI #journalism ⁦@NewspaperWorld⁩ #WNMC24 [image]

Oli Franklin-Wallis /
@olifranklin: Counterpoint: media companies should stop signing agreements with tech companies that are actively trying to replace them and put them out of business @ftpressoffice: FT Group CEO John Ridding speaking at #WNMC24 in Copenhagen today about the next wave of digital disruption: “This long running drama in news media can have a better ending...if the main actors play their parts right, and play them right now.” [image]

The 19th:

The 19th received a three-year, multimillion-dollar grant to advance its journalism from Melinda French Gates as part of her $1B initiative focused on women— The multi-year support will allow us to grow our journalistic ambitions and our audience, while investing in our long-term sustainability.

Discussion:
CNN, Associated Press, New York Times, @slooterman, @errinhaines, @jessicalessin, Emily Ramshaw on LinkedIn, Fernanda Santos on LinkedIn, @19thnews, @grace_panetta, Melinda French Gates on LinkedIn, @jason_kint, Associated Press, @jillgeisler, Variety, The Information, @eramshaw, CBS News and The Wrap

Discussion:

Allison Morrow /
CNN: MacKenzie Scott upended philanthropy as we know it. Melinda French Gates is catching on Associated Press: Who is getting part of Melinda French Gates' $1 billion in donations to support women and girls?

Melinda French Gates /
New York Times: Melinda French Gates's Philanthropy Will Include Abortion Rights

Sara Luterman /
@slooterman: This is great news for continued high quality coverage of women's issues. I am so proud to work for @19thnews. 💪

Jawn Staley /
@errinhaines: Good morning to everyone, but especially Melinda Gates 🙏🏾☀️🥹 https://19thnews.org/...

Jessica Lessin /
@jessicalessin: It takes guts, passion and conviction to work in news and to support it in challenging times. So proud of @19thnews and grateful to @melindagates for the support as the 19th charges ahead! What a gift.

Emily Ramshaw /
Emily Ramshaw on LinkedIn: Pinch me: Melinda French Gates and Pivotal Ventures are making a multi-million dollar gift to @19thnews, part of her billion-dollar initiative to advance gender equity. …

Fernanda Santos /
Fernanda Santos on LinkedIn: Emily Ramshaw said it best: “Sometimes dreams do come true.” — We at The 19th are overjoyed to share that philanthropist … @19thnews: Big news! @melindagates and @pivotalventures are making a multi-million dollar grant to The 19th. https://19thnews.org/...

Grace Panetta /
@grace_panetta: It's a great day to be at @19thnews. So so thrilled about this grant from @melindagates @pivotalventures that will go toward sustaining the work of our nonprofit newsroom!! https://19thnews.org/...

Melinda French Gates /
Melinda French Gates on LinkedIn: After a difficult few years of watching women's rights rolled back in the U.S. and globally, I feel a sense of urgency about doing more to alter this trajectory. …

Michelle Chapman /
Associated Press: Melinda French Gates to Donate $1B Over Next Two Years in Support of Women's Rights

Jill Geisler /
@jillgeisler: Great news!

Jack Dunn /
Variety: Melinda French Gates Commits $1 Billion to Support Reproductive Rights and Women Around the World

Emily Ramshaw /
@eramshaw: Pinch me: @melindagates and @pivotalventures are making a multi-million dollar gift to @19thnews — part of her billion-dollar initiative to advance gender equity. https://19thnews.org/...

Kelsie Hoffman /
CBS News: Melinda French Gates announces $1 billion donation to support women and families, including reproductive rights

Fast Company:

The MoviePass documentary, called MoviePass, MovieCrash, highlights founders Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt, who are Black and often omitted from MoviePass stories— Business stories involving a meteoric rise followed by a spectacular collapse naturally lend themselves to movies …

Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, @brianstorms@mastodon.social, New York Times, The Verge, IndieWire and HBO

Discussion:

Charles Bramesco /
The Guardian: ‘This sounded a little fishy’: the dramatic rise and fall of MoviePass

Brian Dear /
@brianstorms@mastodon.social: @Mediagazer — Sadly the idiot VCs invested in MoviePass and let MovieGoer, which would have thrived if given a chance, die without even an A round.

Alissa Wilkinson /
New York Times: ‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ Review: When They Take Your Company Away

Charles Pulliam-Moore /
The Verge: HBO's MoviePass doc is a snapshot of how C-suites kill companies

Brian Welk /
IndieWire: How MoviePass Went from ‘MovieCrash’ to Profitability: ‘All the Kinks Have Been Worked Out’

Press Gazette:

PINF study: the UK's 300 to 400 independent publishers make between £18.6M and £24.8M in annual revenue combined, down from £30M to £40M in the previous year— There has been a dramatic reduction in revenue, audience and staff sizes across the small independent …

Discussion:
HoldtheFrontPage

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Local News Initiative:

A survey of 1,004 Chicago-area residents: 62% frequently use a smartphone to consume local news, just 9% read printed newspapers and magazines often, and more— An examination of the public's interest in and reliance on local news, as well as consumption habits

Discussion: