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This’ll be a big one and it’s worth waiting for the good stuff below, but before we start, I need to welcome 967 new subscribers in Future Media’s biggest week ever.

There are too many to list them all, but hey to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, BBC News, CNN, The Associated Press, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CBC in Canada.

As well as The Irish Times, the UK’s Reach, The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera, The UK Sun, Vice, Singapore Press Holdings, and The Seattle Times.

The world’s largest publisher The Times of India, and the country’s leading broadcaster NDTV, as well as The Hindustan Times, and The Indian Express.

Plus, The National, and Gulf News in the Middle East, ITV News, Sky News Australia, Radio Algeria in Tlemcen, TVNZ in Auckland, Forbes, Austria’s Russ Media, The Economist, and Malaysia’s MediaCorp.

In Australia, AAP, Nine, The Australian, The Age, The West Australian, SBS, Australian Community Media, The Mandarin, the ABC, cinema g…