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“Over the last few months, The Times has published 15% fewer stories on the online Home News section after learning that news with no additional or exclusive content underperforms. As a result of publishing less content, dwell time in the section has increased: Readers of The Times smartphone app spent an average 28 minutes daily on the Home News section, up 25% year over year, according to the publisher.”

Viceland is the joint venture of Vice Media and A+E Networks, where Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc had previously held the reins.

After a station in Albany first wrote about it, stations in Dayton, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Chattanooga, and more republished it: “Trump’s online campaign store warns buyers to ‘anticipate a delay in delivery due to overwhelming support.’ The hat, which is made in the United States, costs $25.00.”

“Greenwell’s departure comes as the network of former Gawker websites undergo cultural changes at the behest of G/O leadership. On Thursday, for example, the company released a draft of a new staff handbook with stricter new rules, alarming some staff members. It’s unclear whether the handbook contradicts the company’s existing editorial union contract.” —CS

“The idea of CLIP is to be, above all, at the service of Latin American journalism,” María “Teresa Ronderos, one of the founders and director of CLIP, told the Knight Center. ‘We are going to lead collaborative transnational projects of investigative journalism, and we want to find the most qualified people to work on these things, but, we are also helping to support and develop those projects that other people are already cooking and that don’t have a guide, but that is purely collaborative. That’s it.'”

“Thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, subsidies are available to use Metrics for News at a reduced cost in up to 10 newsrooms, starting as soon as October and through 2020.”

“The Reporters Committee will employ a lawyer in up to five jurisdictions in 2020 to help local journalists and news organizations defend their rights to gather and report the news, gain access to public records and court proceedings, and hold state and local government agencies and officials accountable.”

“At the National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) 2019 conference, held in Miami, Florida last weekend, Allison Davis and Denise James led a session on just this — mobile journalism gear.”

They’ve launched 5 so far. “The publisher is throwing its weight behind the digital-only strategy, particularly in regional areas where News Corp may not have previously been active, which sees a journalist set up in their local region and report on matters specific to that area, including crime, property, health and local politics.”

“The company’s WebKit team released a new policy statement today that expands the power of its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) technology…Now it’s shutting down the ‘link decoration’ method used by social networks to make first-party cookies perform the user tracking functions of third-party cookies.”

“It was clearly a premeditated attack and I was their target. They all attacked me and only assaulted my friends when they tried to defend me.”

“The New York Times, for instance, has a Twitter following of a massive 43.9 million followers. That’s more than the total number of digital and print susbcribers to whom the newspaper goes direct by a factor of more than ten. That’s almost as many followers as Michael Jordan has (to be fair to Michael, he hasn’t tweeted since 2015).” —CS