“The English-language Kyiv Independent was announced on Monday with the launch of a crowdfunding Patreon page, which says the new title will rely firstly on readers and donors before adding commercial activities later down the line. It said: ‘We are not backed by a rich owner or an oligarch.'”

“‘After publishing this story, WNYC found it contained unattributed words or phrases,’ each note said. ‘We have decided to retract this article and are investigating the editing process that led to this mistake.'”

“Previously, if a mobile user clicked on a link to your site, Twitter would redirect them to the AMP version of that page if an AMP version was available. Now, that won’t happen and users will just load the native mobile/responsive version of your content…Looking at our own data, we’ve seen sharp Twitter referral declines since August. But, traffic completely bottomed out in November suggesting the rollout is complete.”

Local newspapers seem to get interested in live video to compete with TV every few years — hasn’t worked out yet. “‘You have to have more than text-based content,’ Huang added. ‘We have to establish products, both based on all of our content and creating [new] content, that goes across multiple platforms.'”

It’s also announcing that it has 225,000 active users — but note that “active users” includes both people who pay $400 a year for a subscription figure and people who subscribe to a free email newsletter.

“On a day last week, none of The Athletic’s shows rank among the top 25 sports podcasts, according to PodCharts. Meanwhile, three competitors — ESPN, The Ringer and Barstool Sports — had more than one show in the top 25.”

“Thomson Reuters said it had decided to withdraw to protect the ‘safety and neutrality’ of Reuters journalists. The news agency’s staff feared that if it was seen as being supportive of the British armed forces or foreign policy it could put reporters working in certain countries, where British soldiers are not seen as a force for good, at risk. “

“The host of Channel Seven’s Weekend Sunrise, Matt Doran, and a crew flew to London for the chat…After Doran conceded during the interview that he had only heard one track from her latest work, 30, the interview was canned. Sony is refusing to release the footage. Doran said he simply missed the email that contained a preview of the album.”

“Would she agree with me it is highly inappropriate for a government minister overseeing licence negotiations to seek to influence editorial decisions, including how the prime minister was interviewed, and using the threat of reducing BBC licence funding while doing so?”

“Why do publishers find product boxes a worthwhile investment? It can be a tactile way for a media company to engage with people, show off its editorial curation abilities with products that people want to try out (and for less money — most boxes can be bought at a price lower than the total value of the products inside), deepen relationships with advertisers and diversify its e-commerce offerings.”

A window into the impact of Apple’s user tracking restrictions: “the cost of driving [iOS users] to the website shot up to an average of $424 per conversion — more than three times what Musapatike said she would have expected during an off-year election….Before the iOS change, more than 60% of the group’s conversion ads on Facebook were delivered to iOS devices. After the privacy update, that figure was just under 37%.”

“The order raised immediate concerns among First Amendment advocates, who called it a violation of basic constitutional protections for journalists, a viewpoint echoed by The Times. Project Veritas issued a statement in support of the order, arguing that it did not amount to a significant imposition on the newspaper’s rights.”

“Often to the bafflement of readers, it saw the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday — owned by the same company and with many of the same readers — commit substantial resources to rubbishing the other’s stories…This hotchpotch of conflicting material would then appear on MailOnline, which was busy developing its own global audience driven by celebrity stories on its infamous ‘sidebar of shame.'”

“The working group described their proposed Scottish Public Interest Journalism Institute as a high-profile independent body with a remit covering fundraising, research, grant-making, training, diversity and media literacy. Its aim would be to co-ordinate initiatives to develop public interest journalism for Scotland and its grant funding would aim to support a ‘diverse, pluralistic and sustainable’ sector.”

“The discovery that Ms. Holmes, the tech industry’s most celebrated female entrepreneur, was misdirecting the world about her company marked a turning point in the tech press, ending a decade-long run of largely positive coverage. Reporters cringed over glowing articles they had written about tech companies that turned out to have stretched the truth, glossed over the negative consequences of their products or generally abused the trust they had enjoyed with the public.”

The Hartford Courant editor and publisher “has been overseeing the Daily News editorial department on an interim basis since September and will formally take over Monday as executive editor.”

“Mr. Goldberg said that he and Mr. Hayes stayed on at Fox News as long they did because of a sense from conversations at Fox that, after Mr. Trump’s defeat, the network would try to recover some of its independence and, as he put it, ‘right the ship.'”