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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Longtime producer Susan Zirinsky is replacing CBS News president David Rhodes in March; Rhodes will oversee Zirinsky's transition and later have advisory role — Longtime producer Susan Zirinsky is replacing CBS News President David Rhodes in March, becoming the first woman to lead the storied division in the network's history.
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Emma Best:
A copy of the 5,000 word email WikiLeaks sent to news organizations, listing 140 “false” statements it doesn't want journalists to make about Julian Assange — Update: After publication, WikiLeaks responded by tweeting a version on pastelink. They posted (and were apparently …
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Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Wikileaks sent a 5,000 word email to journalists telling them not to report on 140 different “false and defamatory” statements about Julian Assange — LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different “false and defamatory” …
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InsideClimate News:
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards a $1M grant to InsideClimate News and $1M to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press — The grant provides ICN critical support for its investigative journalism, national reporting network and student journalism program.
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Dom DiFurio / @domdifurio:
Dallas Morning News producer Dom DiFurio says the newsroom has been informed 40 people are being laid off, around half of them from the newsroom — The newsroom just got news that the Dallas Morning News is laying off 40 people amidst a “restructuring”. We're told about half of those will be from the newsroom.
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The Authors Guild:
Survey of 5,067 US-based published book authors finds median author income in 2017 was $6,080, down 42% from 2009; median pay for full-time authors was $20,300 — The Authors Guild's 2018 Author Income Survey, the largest survey of writing-related earnings by American authors ever conducted …
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Twitter has renewed BuzzFeed's live morning show, “AM to DM,” for a full year, having previously only done so on a quarterly basis — Twitter has renewed BuzzFeed's live morning show, “AM to DM,” for a full year. — The daily morning show, which first premiered on Twitter …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Source: Netflix discussed the potential problems Hasan Minhaj's episode would cause in Saudi Arabia before broadcast and even raised idea of scrapping it — Under Article 6, Paragraph 1 of Saudi Arabia's Anti-Cyber Crime Law, the following is punishable by up to five years in prison …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
With new ownership, Fortune seeks to diversify revenue by moving into new markets in Asia, introducing a paywall, and adding new events in 2019 — In 2019, as Fortune looks to diversify its revenue, it will cast its lines for many different kinds of fish. — Armed with new funds promised …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New York Observer's Ben Robinson is out as editor-in-chief after just 10 months in the role; the company says it does not plan to replace him — Observer Media has once again bounced its editor-in-chief — the latest sign of turmoil at the New York publication with ties to Jared Kushner …
Max Willens / Digiday:
Last week, Quartz told its UK commercial team it would be eliminating four jobs, citing a slowdown in 2018 partially caused by Brexit uncertainty — In the past year, Brexit and GDPR have stirred up unusually choppy water for publishers in the U.K. Now, their currents are claiming some casualties.
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Judith Shulevitz / New York Times:
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, book publishers and magazines, including The New Yorker, are asking their writers to sign contracts with morality clause — “No way. I'm not signing that,” a New Yorker writer said when she saw the terms. — When you see publishers and authors chatting chummily …
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