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15 influencers, including Jonah Peretti, Ro Khanna, Brooke Binkowski, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Warner, and Kara Swisher, weigh in on Facebook on its 15th birthday — 15 influencers weigh in on the company's 15th birthday. — When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard in 2017 …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Montana Democrats introduce a “Protect The Free Press Act”, which would increase fine for assaulting a journalist from $500 to $5000, with up to a year in jail — HELENA, Mont. — Democrats in the Montana state legislature put forward a bill Monday that would increase the penalty …
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Kevin Draper / New York Times:
CBS says 98.2M people watched the Super Bowl, the smallest television audience for the event since 2008, while 2.6M viewed via streaming — It was the lowest scoring Super Bowl ever, a universally agreed upon snoozefest. The halftime show was forgettable. The commercials were tame.
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Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
The Washington Post's spend on its Super Bowl ad, reportedly $5.2M, has provoked anger in some quarters, including the Washington-Baltimore News Guild — Many are having issues with how much it cost, saying that money could go toward paying journalists. — The Washington Post aired …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The New York Times is offering free online subscriptions to 3M+ students, made possible by 30,000 contributions from readers — The New York Times will announce today that more than 3 million U.S. students now receive free access to nytimes.com, thanks to more than 30,000 contributions from its readers.
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Washington Post:
The Washington Post adds International Women's Media Foundation and James W. Foley Legacy Foundation to Press Freedom Partnership — The Washington Post today announced the addition of the International Women's Media Foundation and James W. Foley Legacy Foundation to its Press Freedom Partnership.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom's Q1 revenue rose 1% to $3.09B, falling below analysts' expectations, with ad revenue at its media networks dropping 6% YoY — Revenue for the company, led by CEO Bob Bakish, fell short of Wall Street expectations as advertising revenue dropped, but affiliate revenue increased.
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Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
Speaking at the Television Critics Association's winter gathering, FX CEO criticises Netflix for “not telling you the whole story” about its viewership figures — Is You really the smash that Netflix says it is? What about Sex Education? Its most public scold says don't believe the hype.
Washington Post:
Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told police that a Washington Post reporter caused a fracas outside his house but there was no reporter there — A newly released police report by U.S. Park Police, a division of Interior, fingers a mysterious reporter driving a Mercedes Benz SUV.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Sun Basket Meals becomes the latest company to remove its ads from Tucker Carlson's Fox News show — “We will not advertise on the show again in the future,” Sun Basket Meals tells a liberal activist — Tucker Carlson has added another name to what has become a long list of companies …
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Detroit journalist Bill McGraw was fired from his role as an editor of The Dearborn Historian, a city-funded quarterly, for covering Henry Ford's anti-semitism — One hundred years ago, Henry Ford bought a newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan, and used it to publish an anti-Semitic 91-part series called “The International Jew.”
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK broadcaster Sky News is celebrating its 30th anniversary by broadcasting non-stop behind-the-scenes footage of its newsroom all day — Staff appear self-conscious that discussions were broadcast to audience of several thousand people including rival journalists
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