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Cleveland daily paper The Plain Dealer has laid off 14 unionized newsroom staff, mostly reporters, as part of its December announcement to cut 29 jobs — CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Plain Dealer on Monday laid off 14 newsroom employees as part of a staff reduction first announced in December.


Months before The New Yorker published allegations of sexual harassment against CBS News' Jeff Fager, the Washington Post had the story but didn't publish it — The afternoon of March 7, 2018, was go time, or so we believed. Inside a glass huddle room at the Washington Post …
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Sources: YouTube execs ignored internal warnings, concerns about the spread of toxic videos, and proposals to change recommendations, in favor of engagement — A year ago, Susan Wojcicki was on stage to defend YouTube. Her company, hammered for months for fueling falsehoods online …
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YouTube is removing UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson's videos from search results and prohibiting him from live streaming, stopping short of an outright ban — The video platform is removing the far-right activist's videos from search results and stopping him live-streaming.


Janine Gibson, who left her role as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News UK in January, has joined the Financial Times as special projects editor — Janine Gibson, who left her role as Buzzfeed UK editor-in-chief in January, has been appointed as an assistant editor at the Financial Times.
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The Financial Times says it has reached 1M paying readers, with digital subscriptions accounting for 75%+ of its circulation
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Israeli watchdog says it found a network of suspicious social media accounts meant to disrupt and influence elections on behalf of PM Netanyahu's campaign — JERUSALEM — When Ziv Knobler arrived at work Monday, he said, he was surprised to find an image of his Twitter account featured …
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Tampa Bay Times promotes national politics correspondent Steve Contorno to political editor — Contorno has been with the Times since 2013. — Political editor is a storied role at the Tampa Bay Times and a pinnacle in Florida political reporting. — On Tuesday, the Times named Steve Contorno its new political editor.


Sources: Bianna Golodryga, who joined “CBS This Morning” as a co-anchor less than six months ago, has been cut from the show by Susan Zirinsky — The new boss at CBS News, Susan Zirinsky, reportedly thinks the morning news show's four anchors are too many.


Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the TV rights to journalist Susan Orlean's non-fiction bestseller “The Library Book” — Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, in association with Brillstein Entertainment, have acquired the TV rights to Susan Orlean's best-seller …
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Sources: Apple tried hard to sign up The New York Times and WaPo to Apple News+, was flexible on some terms but wanted the papers' entire content offerings — The Times and Post resisted Eddy Cue's hard sell ("We'll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.")
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Former The Federalist senior contributors Bethany Mandel and Rebecca Cusey say they left the conservative online magazine over DC McAllister's toxic behavior — The conservative blogger DC “Denise” McAllister was fired from her role at Ben Domenech's site The Federalist over a wildly homophobic meltdown …
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Q&A with Taylor Lorenz, “internet whisperer” of The Atlantic, on “artisanal” apps, not feeling bad about being on her phone 24/7, and muting notifications — Talking bespoke apps and ‘moon playlists’ with the tech journalist and meme whisperer … aylor Lorenz gets the internet.