Best reads of the week: Kevin Roose’s story on Facebook data wars and the WashPost’s Pegasus Spyware were both insightful reads. CNN+ is pretty interesting to think about as we look for models for quality journalism with a sustainable revenue stream… if they prioritize quality news and robust newsrooms. President Biden’s Facebook is “killing us” comment took over a few days of the news cycle and welcomed response, along with his walk back that they are “not actually killing people”. Erik Wemple has an OpEd today discussing the Wolff-Stelter exchange on trust in media, which also went viral. Google and Philip Smith say they can help you launch a news outlet in 8 weeks (groan) while France sues Google 500M euros for copyright over news content. France is championing why newsrooms are not being paid properly for their news from platforms, even after the $76M deal with 122 news outlets in France they signed earlier this year. The stories in aggregate gave me some hope! – Heidi
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Best reads of the week: Kevin Roose’s story on Facebook data wars and the WashPost’s Pegasus Spyware were both insightful reads. CNN+ is pretty interesting to think about as we look for models for quality journalism with a sustainable revenue stream… if they prioritize quality news and robust newsrooms. President Biden’s Facebook is “killing us” comment took over a few days of the news cycle and welcomed response, along with his walk back that they are “not actually killing people”. Erik Wemple has an OpEd today discussing the Wolff-Stelter exchange on trust in media, which also went viral. Google and Philip Smith say they can help you launch a news outlet in 8 weeks (groan) while France sues Google 500M euros for copyright over news content. France is championing why newsrooms are not being paid properly for their news from platforms, even after the $76M deal with 122 news outlets in France they signed earlier this year. The stories in aggregate gave me some hope! – Heidi