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The New York Times CEO Warns Publishers Ahead of Apple News Launch (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is expected to launch an ambitious new entertainment and paid digital news service on Monday, as the iPhone maker pushes back against streaming video leader Netflix. But it likely will not feature the New York Times. Mark Thompson, chief executive of the biggest U.S. newspaper by subscribers, warned that relying on third-party distribution can be dangerous for publishers who risk losing control over their own product. "We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else," he told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. "We're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism."

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  1. "Quality Reporting" by SuperKendall · · Score: 1, Troll

    NYT is one of the last places with enough to pay for quality reporting

    Maybe they should try putting that in the paper instead of what they publish now...

    I just assumed the NYT was excluded with lots of other questionable "news" sources. It's called "Apple News", not "Apple Democratic Party with Bylines".

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