The nonprofit climate news site now has about 6,000 paying subscribers, CEO Brady Piñero Walkinshaw said in a Q&A. The vast majority — 90 percent — of the site’s revenue still comes from foundations and major donors.

Thousands of outlets backed by political groups have been pushing biased stories disguised as non-partisan local news on the platform. Now, groups with “direct, meaningful ties” to political groups will be held to the same standard as political entities when it comes to advertising on the platform.

“When it comes to accessing overlooked communities, collaborations are key, says Gallardo. ‘All of my work in the classroom and at ProPublica is collaborative,’ says Gallardo. ‘If my students’ goals are to reach communities often ignored by newsrooms and/or to build ambitious deep-dives, I can’t imagine teaching them any other way to get the work done.'”

“The role calls for a director of marketing ‘to drive the strategy and go-to-market execution of its future consumer subscription product.’ David Perpich, head of standalone products at The Times, confirmed the effort to Axios.”

“Instead of using photos from its massive archive spanning 65 years, for the moment Sports Illustrated has been forced to primarily use images provided by wire services or shot after the magazine’s sale. This latest Maven-related problem has proven especially embarrassing and depressing for some staffers, who pointed out that Sports Illustrated’s original innovation was to print strikingly colorful sports photographs starting in the 1960s.”

“Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it published remarks by an expert who said the official figures on coronavirus cases and deaths in the country account for only 5% of the real toll, allegations rejected by the Health Ministry.”

“News organizations should be constantly asking themselves, ‘How are stories framed? What language is used? Are we reinforcing unconscious stereotypes?'”

“The Guardian has documented more than 170 QAnon groups, pages and accounts across Facebook and Instagram with more than 4.5 million aggregate followers. The Guardian has also documented dedicated communities for QAnon followers in at least 15 countries on Facebook. The growth in the QAnon Facebook communities has come as rival social media platform Twitter undertook a broad crackdown on content and accounts dedicated to the conspiracy theory…At the time of Twitter’s crackdown, anonymous sources told The New York Times that Facebook was planning to take ‘similar steps’ at some point this month. In the meantime, Facebook’s recommendation algorithm has continued to promote QAnon groups to users and some groups have experienced explosive growth.”

“In her current role, Ms. Ostroff has pushed podcasters to innovate in various ways, such as urging Parcast’s Mr. Cutler to produce a daily, narrative true-crime podcast—a previously unheard-of tempo for the genre, which tends to be costly and requires a large production team. A crime junkie herself, Ms. Ostroff said she is now an avid listener of Parcast’s Today in True Crime.”

Disney CEO Bob Chapek told employees that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical brought in “a lot of” new subs for Disney+ shortly after the musical’s July 3 debut. (The platform has not released hard numbers for its streaming titles.)