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    Archives: June 8, 2021

    Joshua BentonJune 8, 2021
    A packed set of Apple announcements could have big impacts on news publishers — for good and for ill
    The news alerts you send to iPhones might be about to disappear from your users’ screens. The bedrock metric of the newsletter business just got murdered. (But there’s good news, too.)
    Mark Coddington and Seth LewisJune 8, 2021
    Do journalists “hide behind” sources when they use numbers in the news?
    Plus: Challenging “getting it first vs. getting it right,” data journalism for marginalized communities, and determining what news organizations cover as terrorism.
    Joshua BentonJune 8, 2021
    When all else fails: An internet outage sends news publishers scrambling for a backup plan
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