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Canada’s Local Journalism Initiative program is renewed to fund community news

This Tuesday, News Media Canada, the newspapers’ alliance of Canada, announced that it had reached an agreement with the Minister of Canadian Heritage and it will continue to administer the Local Journalism Initiative program, a funding to support the local »

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Trump’s suspended channel on YouTube will be restored, YouTube’s CEO said

After two months’ suspension on YouTube, the account of Donald Trump, the former president of the U.S., will be reopened. In an online forum of Atlantic Council, YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki said YouTube will lift the suspension of Trump’s channel »

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Twitter’s new ‘Super Follow’ allows journalists to charge for their tweets

During its “Analyst event” on Friday Twitter announced several new features, including “Super Follow” and “Community.” “Super Follow” is a feature used to monetize content, mostly the tweets published on the platform. As an industry heavily addicted to Twitter, news »

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Report: audio social App Clubhouse has exceeded 8 million downloads worldwide

According to new data from the mobile data and analytics company App Annie, the global downloads of the audio-chat social app Clubhouse have topped 8 million, despite it being still in the phase of pre-launch and invitation-only. Starting from February, »

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Clubhouse going mainstream but banned in China

On Monday, Feb. 08, after several months of unusually unrestricted downloads, the Chinese users of audio-only social media application Clubhouse suddenly found they couldn’t access it anymore. Clubhouse, which has been gaining popularity in China, has finally joined the list »

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Google is testing third-party cookie alternatives, crucial to its ad business

Google is experimenting with a new advertising technology called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) to replace controversial third-party cookies. Third-party cookies have always been the backbone technology for collecting user data and pinpoint advertising in Google’s ad business. If you »

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Twitter acquires Revue, a Dutch newsletter platform

Twitter has been acquiring small innovative companies in the area of media and communication for a while. Now on its purchase list: a newsletter business. Revue, a newsletter platform startup based in the Netherlands, was just acquired by Twitter. The »

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Google and the French media alliance reach agreement to pay for news content

– News content includes summary and reuse Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale (APIG), a French media alliance organization, announced an agreement with Google on the use of media content. The news of agreement was jointly announced by Google and »

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Make money with Web Stories? Google launches native ads function

Google’s multimedia story-telling format, Web Stories, is still not as popular as expected on the web. Google has changed its name from AMP Stories to Web Stories and promoted it harder than before. As a result, Web Stories has gradually »

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Twitter acquires social podcasting App Breaker for its own audio function

Twitter recently acquired the social podcasting platform Breaker. Breaker team will join Twitter and help build Twitter’s own audio based project – Twitter Space. After the acquisition, Breaker will close its own popular social audio/podcasting Apps. Erik Berlin, CEO of »