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“As advertising has waned, public notice has remained relatively constant and, because of that, become a larger and larger proportion of the newspaper business over time.”
Newspaper closures and job losses have hit areas outside Australian cities hard. Removing news from Facebook will further restrict the choices of people with already limited access to news.
Audience declines of 20 percent or more have followed Facebook taking its traffic ball and going home.
“Nobody wants to look back on the work we’ve done and say, ‘God, we were really clueless 50 years ago.’ We want to start every day thinking that we’re as in touch with the community as we possibly can be and reflect their interests and values.”
The app is an experiment by The Times to get a better sense of how people are sharing Times journalism through their own Slack workspaces.
“We found that the House that’s shown on the news is much more ideologically extreme than the actual House.”
“Some editors acknowledged that the continued emphasis on a print publication was a barrier to coverage appealing to more diverse audiences.”
Plus: Twitter’s Birdwatch is pretty useless so far.
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Plus: Bon Appétit gets further filleted, and McClatchy is giving employees a raise.