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Apple's acquisition of Texture, and what it might mean for the iOS news ecosystem Members Public

Apple has acquired a major US digital magazine subscription service. If you needed evidence it was serious about Apple News, this is it. But does this mean publishers should take Apple News more seriously?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Talking Points Memo contemplates opening the kimono – for members only Members Public

Laura Hazard Owen of Neiman Lab has done an interesting interview with Josh Marshall of Talking Point Memo, in which he discusses the idea of putting some member-only content behind a paywall. But that content won’t be the liberal-centric reporting the site is best known for: it’ll be

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Zetland: journalism as (profitable) community service Members Public

Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Lea Korsgaard, Editor-in-Chief, Zetland, Denmark Do you create a community to monetise it? No. You create a community to serve it. If you are to build community, you need to

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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