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Matt Cohen / Mother Jones:
Sources: Atlantic managers told CityLab staffers that only 7 of 13 full-time staffers and 3 contractors will be rehired after the site's sale to Bloomberg Media — Journalism has had a rough year full of layoffs across the country, and Bloomberg Media, the company owned the latest entrant …
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Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone:
Music streaming subscription prices have remained flat for a decade, amid competition from tech giants like Apple that can operate their music arms at a loss — The price of music streaming has stayed flat for a decade, but not because tech companies are generous
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The Newseum, an overbuilt edifice and a fine venue for weddings, fell short of its potential to be an educational institution archiving historical newspapers — We are taught from an early age not to speak ill of the dead (unless we write obituaries), so I suppose I should hold my tongue about the demise …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge rules against The Wrap, which sued The Information for allegedly poaching a reporter, in contrast to this week's Netflix/Fox ruling on the same issue — Sharon Waxman falls flat in a poaching suit against The Information just as the entertainment industry witnesses the opposite result in a battle between Fox and Netflix.
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Heather Murphy / New York Times:
The Hallmark Channel pulls company's ads showing lesbian brides kissing, citing distraction from network's purpose, after conservative group's targeted campaign — A spokesman for the channel said the lesbian couple's P.D.A. violated its policies. Hallmark did not reject a similar ad featuring an opposite-sex couple.
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Soraya Roberts / Longreads:
Canada shows what can happen when the media industry shrinks: staffers are overwhelmingly white, while people of color make up over one fifth of the population — I wouldn't call Canada racist. I'm not being nice when I say that, I'm being polite. Canadians are like that.
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@andraydomise, @siobhanftb, @desmondcole, @sarahberms, @longreads, @davidsrudin, @sorayaroberts, @michaellejeanf and @cbcjulia
Dave Karpf / MediaWell:
Online disinfo campaigns, whether they sway voters or not, erode the idea that deception has consequences, a concept that presupposes the media's watchdog role — What is the sound of a thousand social media bots clapping? — For two years, from 2015 to 2017, the Russian Internet Research Agency …
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Bloomberg:
A look at the rise of Roku, which is valued at $17B and whose stock is up 300% this year, amid escalating competition from Amazon, Google, and others — More than 30 million people use a Roku device to navigate the constellation of streaming TV services. The company's portfolio includes the …
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@bw, @conviva and @lucas_shaw
Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
CPJ: 30 journalists are in jail worldwide on charges of “fake news”; 65 of the 120 journalists imprisoned on these charges since 1992 were imprisoned after 2012 — As 2019 draws to a close, there are 30 journalists in jail worldwide on charges of “false news” — or, as it's also called these days, “fake news.”
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Nieman Lab and @raju
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Greg Winter as international managing editor, only the second editor to hold that position at the news organization — Greg, who has overseen some of our best award-winning journalism, will continue to focus on the enterprise and investigative journalism, while also steering the daily report.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Liberty Media, which owns 4.8% of iHeartMedia, is seeking Justice Department permission to acquire a controlling stake in the radio broadcaster — Deal would put nation's largest radio broadcaster under same umbrella as concert promoter and satellite-radio giant SiriusXM
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Lefsetz Letter, @kiddchris, @grahamdbryce, @matt and Radio & Television …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
YouTube has shut down some channels posing as US news outlets, using sensationalist thumbnails and content primarily from CNN; one had 2M+ views in one weekend — Relive your favorite YouTube Moments of 2019 — New York (CNN Business)YouTube channels posing as American news outlets racked …
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@passantino, @fox5vegas, @slpng_giants, @darrenlinvill, @nathanpatin, @donie, @donie, @amandacarpenter and media.plasticity.ai
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