Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Thursday, March 16, 2023 [Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print]( One Redditor: “I actually enjoy reading my local newspaper when it’s on the Kindle as opposed to the paper’s poorly designed website and frequently broken app.” By Laura Hazard Owen. [The Gary Lineker tweet scandal shows how the BBC has struggled to adapt to the social media age]( Can “impartiality” be required from all actors, musicians, scientists, or sport pundits appearing on the BBC without thwarting the principle of free speech? By Marek Bekerman. What We’re Reading The Rebooting / Brian Morrissey [“The year of efficiency heralds a longer chill for publishing” →]( “Deconstruction is the fate of many publishing conglomerates. The scale bet has utterly failed. That much was clear long ago.” Forbes / Emily Baker-White [The FBI and DOJ are investigating ByteDance’s use of TikTok to spy on journalists →]( “According to a source in position to know, the DOJ Criminal Division, Fraud Section, working alongside the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has subpoenaed information from ByteDance regarding efforts by its employees to access U.S. journalists’ location information or other private user data using the TikTok app.” Politico / Kyle Cheney [Former editor of Orthodox Jewish newspaper charged for Jan. 6 actions →]( “Videos and images from that day portrayed [Elliot Resnick] as an active participant in the unrest, pushing his way to the doors of the Capitol, waving rioters on and bursting through the rotunda doors despite resistance from police.” Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt [Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein on how reader donations became big business →]( “I think in some ways people are making a bit of a shift from quantity and doomscrolling and just ingesting huge quantities of news to more quality and are actually spending a little more time with smaller numbers of stories that they really care about.” Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Russell [Victor Pickard on the layoffs at NPR, and how to better support public and local media →]( “If I were to put my finger on one big factor for what has constrained not just our political efforts, but our imagination about what’s possible, I would posit that it is a form of capitalist realism.” The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum [The new prime time for TV news: Afternoons →]( “Instead of flipping on CNN at 8 p.m. for the latest on the presidency or the pandemic, viewers are dipping in before dinner and then drifting away.” Washington Post / Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Sonia Rao [Axios reporter fired after calling news release on DeSantis event “propaganda” →]( The reporter, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery: “It’s incredibly important that their organizations stand up on [reporters’] behalf and realize that this is nothing but a political tactic to gain right-wing votes and disrupt the lives of hard-working journalists.” Intelligencer / John Herrman [The nightmare of AI-powered Gmail has arrived →]( “Are you excited for your co-workers to become way more verbose, turning every tapped-out ‘Sounds good’ into a three-paragraph letter?” Substack / Simon Owens [Is the Morning Brew model crumbling? →]( “We saw the same thing happen with TheSkimm.” Variety / Andrew Wallenstein and Gavin Bridge [21% of Fox News viewers (in a survey of 338) say they trust the network less because of evidence in the Dominion lawsuit →]( But “only 9% of Fox News viewers say they aren’t watching the network as much as they used to.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](