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Jim Lehrer, a longtime PBS news anchor who moderated a dozen presidential debates and wrote about 20 novels, has died at 85 — PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant in journalism known for his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news, died Thursday at the age of 85.
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Alex Barker / Financial Times:
Comcast's NBC and Sky to launch NBC Sky World News, an international news channel, this summer; they will open ten new bureaus worldwide and hire 100-200 staff — Comcast's NBC and Sky will this summer attempt to overturn three decades of CNN pre-eminence in international television news …
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Comcast beats Q4 expectations: profit rose 26% YoY to $3.16B on revenue of $28.39B; NBCU revenue fell 2.6% YoY to $9.2B; Sky revenue rose 0.4% YoY to $5.04B — - Comcast beat on both the top and bottom lines in its fourth-quarter results. — The company added 442,000 …
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Hamilton Nolan / Columbia Journalism Review:
CJR's new “public editor” for The Washington Post notes the newspaper's profitability, and lingering wage issues, as it blends serious stories with clickbait — It would be trite to force an Amazon metaphor onto the Washington Post in my first column just because they are both owned by the same rich guy.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Jim Rich, formerly EIC for the New York Daily News, has been appointed EIC of Deadspin, the G/O Media site where the entire staff resigned last fall — Jim Rich is stepping in to lead the site months after the entire staff resigned to protest the chief executive of parent G/O Media
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Emma Loop / BuzzFeed News:
Sources: the director of national intelligence missed a deadline to send a report to Congress identifying those responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's death — WASHINGTON — The country's top intelligence official has failed to turn over to Congress a report on the killing of Washington Post …
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Wall Street Journal:
UN officials call for further investigation into the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone in 2018 by Saudi's MbS, targeting Bezos “principally” as WaPo's owner
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at results from a test by NYT R&D's The News Provenance Project, which stored image metadata on the blockchain to help users identify faked photos — Can blockchain save journalism? The Magic 8-Ball's best answer thus far appears to be “Outlook not so good.”
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American Press Institute, @palewire, @nytimesrd, @ibmblockchain and @rozzy
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
BBC World Service to air My World, a show to help kids over 13 spot fake news, by explaining the stories behind news — Angelina Jolie and the BBC want to give young viewers real tools to stop fake news, — Jolie will executive produce “BBC My World,” a program that explains …
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Breitbart, Vanity Fair, The A.V. Club and New York Post
Melynda Fuller / MediaPost:
PopSugar names Angelica Marden as general manager, leading both editorial operations and business efforts, reporting to founder-president Lisa Sugar — Women's lifestyle brand PopSugaris tasking Angelica Marden with leading both its editorial operations and business efforts as its new general manager.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
TikTok signs licensing deal with music rights agency Merlin for indie label music in videos and, source says, in its upcoming music streaming service, Resso — TikTok, the fast-growing user-generated video app from China's Bytedance, has been building a new music streaming service to compete …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Arron Banks drops part of his libel lawsuit against Carole Cadwalladr, a suit that press freedom groups say is intended to stifle public interest reporting — Prominent Brexiteer Arron Banks has dropped half of his libel case against Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr …
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The Paris Review:
Mona Simpson named publisher of The Paris Review, where she has been a member of the board of directors and the editorial committee since 2014 — The Paris Review Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Mona Simpson as the magazine's new publisher.
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