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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Shepard Smith, the anchor who left Fox News in early October, announced Thursday that he will donate $500K to the Committee to Protect Journalists — The former anchor made his first public appearance since his abrupt departure from Fox News, where he faced taunts from colleagues and President Trump.
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Sources: in October, The Athletic offered Authentic $50M to license Sports lllustrated content instead of Maven, which had started layoffs, but was refused — Moving the Market: Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, the co-founders of the burgeoning sports news site The Athletic …
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Awful Announcing, @ashkan, @ckrewson, @dylanbyers and @maghielse
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Marketing startup Keywee introduces Loyalty Score, which measures reader loyalty based on how many times someone returns to the site and their page views — I don't want to hurt your feelings, but here's the truth: Not all readers are created equal. — At least, that's how things look …
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@whatthebit and Keywee
Michael Calderone / Politico:
Memo: Laurene Powell Jobs will assume greater control at The Atlantic, as it seeks a new president/CEO, and chairman David Bradley steps away from management — Magazine seeks CEO from outside to chart new path in “the exquisitely hard work of media strategy.” — Laurene Powell Jobs.
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@lisaliebmannyc and @vermontgmg
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
USA Today is being sued by a former digital sales director, who is alleging discrimination and retaliation when she told her managers she was pregnant — New York (CNN Business)A former USA Today digital sales director has sued the newspaper for allegedly discriminating and retaliating …
Discussion:
Fortune and @joshsternberg
Akintunde Ahmad / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside the last year of the Foreign Press Association, where exec feuding and board resignations led to the launch of the Association of Foreign Correspondents — Last November, the Foreign Press Association, a nonprofit group that represents foreign correspondents working in the US, hosted a centennial gala at One World Trade Center.
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STAT, @thanosdimadis, @yiannisbab, @thanosdimadis, @cjr, @cjr and The Guardian
Alexander Marrow / Reuters:
Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could allow journalists to be labeled foreign agents if they get funding from abroad — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Thursday that will allow individual journalists …
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@ehrac_hq and Associated Press
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
China's state media agency bought an ad on Facebook in which Bill Gates praises China, an example of how the country burnishes its image abroad — Xinhua News, China's largest state-run news agency, is currently buying ads on Facebook that feature a video of Bill Gates talking about China.
Poynter:
The International Fact-Checking Network will partner with Univision to elevate international fact-checking for Spanish-language audiences in the US — The Poynter Institute announces that its International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) will partner with Univision News to elevate international fact-checks …
Discussion:
American Press Institute
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out its “Hide Replies” feature to all users globally — Twitter's radical “Hide Replies” feature, one of the biggest changes to how Twitter works since the invention of the Retweet, is now available to Twitter's global user base. The company says the feature …
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@tweetdeck, @twittersupport, Twitter, The Next Web, @i_am_daniele, @twitterdev, @smartereveryday, @bjoseph, @yoyoel, @heylauragao, @suzannexie, MediaPost, KIFI-TV, NPR, Reuters, Adweek, CNET, help.twitter.com, Ad Age and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
PEN America report: 1,800 local print outlets have shut down in the US since 2004, leaving Americans uninformed and public officials not held to account — The loss of local news coverage in much of the United States has frayed communities and left many Americans woefully uninformed, according to a new report.
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The Guardian, PEN America, Editor & Publisher Magazine, @lpolgreen, BKLYNER, @mattkatz00, @maxbergmann, @juliegoldberg, @miekeeoyang, @brizzyc, @mguzman_detroit, @thebutterknife, @taydolven, @nbj914, @amberfi, @lpolgreen, @rklein90, @vwpickard, @mina_bloom_, @ctguild, @thomas_drake1, @iohnsands, @drumenaker, @sivavaid, @seantubbs, @jenafifield, @scbaird, @gtcost, @marklittlenews, @pollycurtis, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @bairdjulia, @penamerica, @mitchksmith and The Rural Blog
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
Ad measurement firm Integral Ad Science has acquired European ad tech firm ADmantX, which provides info on context and content of articles on which ads run — ADmantX helps brands understand the content on web pages where their ads could run — Integral Ad Science Inc. has acquired ADmantX SpA …
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Digiday, @omnicommediagrp, @tonytonymarlow, @lisa_utz and Integral Ad Science
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