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Ryan Glasspiegel / The Big Lead:
In a letter to the union, G/O CEO says G/O plans to relaunch Deadspin in Chicago as an Onion property and is suspending negotiations over editorial independence — The entire staff of Deadspin walked away from the site in late October, and there have been no stories published there since November 4th.
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@benmullin, Nieman Lab, Adweek, Awful Announcing, @wgaeast, The Wrap, Mediaite, @connorsouthard, @mattdpearce, @brianmfloyd, @bruce_arthur, @whet, @cd_hooks, @byjoelanderson, @davidbix, @amandamull, @diamonde, @mariabustillos, @weishampel, @albertburneko, @david_j_roth, @annamerlan, @jaywillis, @lindseyadler, @genefortexas, @gabrielsnyder and The Hill
Joan Summers / Jezebel:
Source: Teen Vogue's editorial team was not aware that sales would be publishing the Facebook election safety advertorial — On Wednesday, Teen Vogue found itself in the crosshairs of the internet when an article entitled “How Facebook is Helping Ensure the Integrity of the 2020 Election …
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Margins, @pkafka, @glovink, @robaeprice, @dhh, @rmac18, iMediaEthics, VICE, @jasonabbruzzese, @baekdal, @yoda, @dchieng, @pkafka, Breitbart, Washington Post, The Drum, @rachelabramsny and Newser
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Sources: the Chernin Group is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake in Barstool Sports to casino operator Penn National Gaming — Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy at a Harrah's casino event in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2019. Tom Briglia/ Getty Images
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Trump's allies are trying to raise $250M for a bid for One America News Network, in an effort to shake up conservative media dominated by Fox News — Hicks Equity Partners, a family investment firm tied to Republican National Committee co-chair Thomas Hicks Jr., is pitching GOP donors on possible deal
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@brianstelter, @johnzaremba, @rebeccaballhaus, @kenvogel and @asharma
Rory O'Neill / World IP Review:
Chinese court rules that a work generated by Tencent's automated news writing program, Dreamwriter, qualifies for copyright protection — A Chinese court has ruled that AI-generated works are entitled to copyright protection, in a win for tech giant Tencent.
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ecns, VentureBeat, CHINAdaily and @grady_booch
John Koblin / New York Times:
FX research estimates 532 scripted shows were made in 2019, the first time the 500-show threshold has been crossed, a 7% rise YoY, 153% jump since 2009 — The number of original series continued to swell in 2019, with Apple and Disney adding to the glut. When will the bubble pop?
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Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, The Playlist, @bretisrael, CNN and Axios
Deanna Ting / Digiday:
Bloomberg News switched from WhatsApp to Telegram in December and now sends daily updates to 27K+ subscribers, following WhatsApp's ban on bulk messaging — On Telegram, the preferred messaging app for the privacy conscious, Bloomberg News is attempting to draw new subscribers and build …
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Talking Biz News and @jonrussell
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Discovery CEO says the company is “looking hard at” launching its own streaming service and that the company can't grow by staying on its existing platform — David Zaslav says that the company has exceeded its goal of $3 billion in annual free cash flow ahead of schedule and will roll out HGTV in 12 new markets.
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@thr
The Information:
Sources: Quibi's projections from 2019 show the upcoming streaming service is expected to spend ~$1.5B in its first year; Quibi has raised $1.4B so far — If there's one thing to be said for Quibi, the short-form streaming service coming from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman this spring …
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@alexeheath, @amir, @caseynewton, @jessicalessin, @barakgila and @gerryfsmith, more at Techmeme »
The Guardian:
Samira Ahmed wins equal pay case against the BBC: “her work on Newswatch was like Jeremy Vine's work” for which he was paid 7.5 times more than her — Broadcaster does not consider tribunal result a blanket ruling and could still fight other cases — Play Video
James Pogue / The Baffler:
How the booming book-to-film market has distorted long-form writing, prioritizing drama over insight, style, investigative reporting, or any other factor — The decline of nonfiction in the IP era — IN EARLY 2018, I was spending a warm West Hollywood Sunday evening on the balcony …
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@joolsd, @xpatriciah, @erinedmison, @lifewinning, @ggarciaroberts, @awinston, @samknightwrites, @joolsd, @adrianeq, @midimyers, @mathewi, Simon Owens's Tech …, @maxseddon, @tristandross, @manvbrain, @xlorentzen, @kait_tiffany, @katykelleher, @chaykak, @chaykak, @katykelleher, @katykelleher, @emilygould, @sabramboyd, @sidhubaba, @sidhubaba, @nichcarlson, @sidhubaba and @emilyctamkin
InPublishing:
UK's The Independent expands US editorial team, with Katie Davies as US editor, John T. Bennett as DC bureau chief, and Richard Hall as senior US correspondent — The Independent today announces a number of senior editorial appointments in the US as part of a global expansion plan.
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Home & Travel Reporter, Ireland — 
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Markets Reporter, NY/CA — 
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Food Reporter, CA — 
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Higher Ed. Reporter, Remote CA — 
Politics Reporter, Brussels — 
Investigations & Enterprise Ed., WI — 
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Editor-in-Chief, NY (flexible) — 
Housing Reporter, OK — 
Writer/AI Content Reviewer, CA — 
Writer/Editor, Remote — 
Multi Media Reporter, NC — 
Afternoon/Night Editor, NH — 
Education Lab Editor, WA — 
Senior Editor, Remote US — 
State Worker Reporter, CA — 
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