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Reuters just got $10 billion to build a sustainable news business. How should it spend it?

Reuters News just won the lottery. What will it do with all that money?

By Felix Salmon March 16

TheSkimm is raising $12 million from Google Ventures and other investors to build its subscription business

The startup has a newsletter with seven million subscribers, but it wants more revenue sources.

By Peter Kafka March 15

Techmeme, the influential tech news aggregator, is launching its own podcast

Because everyone has a podcast. (That’s a good thing!)

By Peter Kafka March 6

Watch the full interview: Brit Morin and theSkimm’s Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg talked about reaching their audiences

It’s not all about social media.

By Recode Staff February 14

Watch the full video: Analyst Michael Nathanson on where the media is headed

It’s a roller coaster ride for media these days.

By Recode Staff February 14

Watch the full video: New York Times’ Lisa Tobin talks about the value of audio and the next big thing for The Daily

The Daily podcast already reaches 4.5 million unique listeners monthly.

By Recode Staff February 14

Watch the full interview: Flipboard’s Mike McCue and Outbrain’s Yaron Galai onstage at Code Media

McCue got in some good digs at Apple’s so-called walled garden.

By Recode Staff February 14

‘Apple News as a product is living in the past,’ according to Flipboard’s CEO

Mike McCue thinks a walled garden is the wrong approach for publishers in 2018.

By Jason Del Rey February 13

TheSkimm’s founders dismissed critiques that their newsletter trivializes serious world events

"I think that we’re theSkimm for a reason," theSkimm co-founder Danielle Weisberg said.

By Johana Bhuiyan February 12

Full transcript: ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Chuck Todd on Recode Decode

"I believe I am a custodian of something that is much bigger than myself, which is ‘Meet the Press.’"

By Recode Staff February 7

These publications have the most to lose from Facebook’s new algorithm changes

Those that get the biggest chunk of traffic from Facebook will be hurt most.

By Rani Molla January 25

Facebook is going to start ranking news sources — once its users tell it how to rank news sources

Mark Zuckerberg says he wants better news on his social network, but he doesn’t want to figure it out for himself.

By Peter Kafka January 19

Facebook is testing a new section of the app specifically for local news and events

Facebook is vetting local publishers that appear in this section.

By Kurt Wagner January 10

Even in the age of Trump, people are getting less and less news from television

Local TV is still more popular than network and cable TV.

By Kurt Wagner January 7

BuzzFeed is losing website traffic as readers head for more traditional news sites

The New York Times, Fox News and the Washington Post have eclipsed BuzzFeed in U.S. visitors, according to comScore.

By Rani Molla November 30

Here’s a longer list of news organizations that cited Russia-linked Twitter accounts

Reporters around the country have been unknowingly including tweets from Russian trolls in their news stories.

By Tony Romm and Rani Molla November 4

After the fall of DNAinfo, it’s time to stop hoping local news will scale

After years looking at this problem, here’s the only answer I see.

By John Ness November 4

The Washington Post, Miami Herald, InfoWars and other U.S. sites spread Russian propaganda from Twitter

Tweets from 2,752 fake Twitter accounts created by Russian government trolls found their way into U.S. news stories.

By Tony Romm and Rani Molla November 3

Former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile wants to save the media industry by blocking ads

His new startup, Scroll, will charge consumers once for an ad-free experience across many news sites on all platforms.

By Eric Johnson October 19

Snapchat wants to get deeper into news, so it’s adding college newspapers to Discover

Student papers from Berkeley, Texas A&M, Wisconsin and Syracuse are coming to Snapchat.

By Kurt Wagner September 8

The New York Daily News is one of the biggest newspapers in the country and Tronc is buying it for zero dollars

Bupkis.

By Peter Kafka September 4

Digital media veteran Ross Levinsohn takes over the LA Times as it fires top editors

He brought Myspace to News Corp, and later ran Yahoo. Now he’s running one of America’s biggest newspapers.

By Peter Kafka August 21

Republicans don’t trust the news media — unless it’s Fox News

Shocker!

By Rani Molla May 24

LinkedIn is rolling out a trending topics section

LinkedIn pulls a Facebook.

By Kurt Wagner March 22

Apple’s Eddy Cue says technology companies have a responsibility to combat fake news

Since most people are getting news via their devices, tech companies need to look for solutions, according to Cue.

By April Glaser February 14

Here’s Facebook’s plan to crack down on fake news

It’s going to ask users to find bogus stories and fact-checkers to tell Facebook they’re bogus.

By Peter Kafka December 15

TheSkimm Built a Massive Email Following. Now It Wants More.

Email was "the best marketing tool" for Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin in 2012. What's next?

By Eric Johnson March 3

Former BuzzFeed COO Jon Steinberg Hires Yahoo Executive for His Online News Startup

Steinberg says he has yet to raise money and that Yahoo executive producer Peter Gorenstein is his first hire.

By Ina Fried January 18

Mic CEO Chris Altchek Says Millennials Need a Different Type of News

"It’s hard to build trust amongst this generation. They’re super skeptical, very upset with older generations."

By Eric Johnson January 14

Apple Updates Its News App to Make It More Like a ... Newspaper

There's also an update for publishers, too. Will that make you use it?

By Peter Kafka December 8

New York Times' Baquet on Tech Strategy: Do as I Say, Not as I Do

Baquet doesn't Vine.

By Edmund Lee September 9

Apple Adds More Publishers for Its News App, Which Will Launch Soon

Publishers like the idea and the business terms. But they're not convinced it will work.

By Peter Kafka September 2

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