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Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Profile of Dan Peres, who edited the men's magazine Details for 15 years and whose new memoir gives a first-person account of Condé Nast culture in the aughts — The memoirs of Dan Peres and other ex-employees of the magazine company reveal mess behind the gloss of the aughts.
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
UK proposes plans to put media regulator Ofcom in charge of regulating social media, with a focus on removing illegal content and minimizing “harmful” content — Ministers unveil plans to block harmful content, while guaranteeing free speech — Ofcom will be put in charge …
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Alexandra Ilyashov / Daily Front Row:
Interview with Vogue.com's new editor Stuart Emmrich about his vision for it, taking up the job because it's digital, how he never used a CMS before, and more — Stuart Emmrich spent 16 years at The New York Times, then decamped to L.A. for a few months to reinvent the fraught local paper's lifestyle section.
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Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with immigration reporter Hamed Aleaziz about his story for BuzzFeed News that detailed a whistleblower complaint over ICE's medical care and more — On December 12, BuzzFeed News published a 3,000-word story by Hamed Aleaziz, an immigration reporter, based on an internal Department …
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
The New Republic is launching a redesign in March alongside a $20/year metered paywall for digital subscriptions and $30/year print and digital bundle — The New Republicis debuting a new look, coinciding with the launch of a politics-focused podcast and a metered paywall.
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Quibi says it plans to spend $400M-$500M on marketing this year, which some media execs say differentiates it from failed short-form services like Go90, Vessel — This article is part of the Digiday Video Briefing, which features must-reads, confessionals and key market stats.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of Makan Delrahim, the DOJ antitrust chief and former movie producer who is shaping the content industry's future, critics say guided by politics — As Hollywood scales up to battle big tech, Makan Delrahim, the nation's top antitrust regulator (and a former movie producer) …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Reuters launches a new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog and partners with Facebook to review news headlines, deepfakes, and user generated content — Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process.
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Reuters, Breitbart, Adweek, @joshconstine, Engadget and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Police Service of Northern Ireland says a 52-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Lyra McKee — A man has been charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKeee. — The Police Service of Northern Ireland said a 52-year-old man has been charged with murder …
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Spotify launches Songwriter Pages and says it saw a 60% increase in labels and distributors crediting songwriters after it started displaying credits in 2018 — Spotify today launched its Songwriter Pages, which it describes as “a new way for fans, collaborators and industry partners …
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Spotify for Artists, Music Business Worldwide, Engadget and The Verge
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Analysis: right-leaning news outlets placed 227 cookies on average vs. 131 for left-leaning sites, based on partisan outlets among the 10K most popular sites — One analysis of news outlets found that the median popular right-wing site planted 73 percent more cookies than its left-wing counterpart.
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Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Lebanon's financial crisis has obliterated local media's revenue since December; the Daily Star, its only English-language newspaper, closed earlier this month — Agenda-setting newspapers and TV stations facing scramble to survive amid state dysfunction — For nearly 80 years since …