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12:00 AM ET, February 22, 2020

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Los Angeles Times:
Twitter is suspending 70 accounts linked to Michael Bloomberg's campaign for violating its policies, citing platform manipulation and duplicative content  —  Michael R. Bloomberg's presidential campaign has been experimenting with novel tactics to cultivate an online following, or at least the appearance of one.
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Twitter says Bloomberg's edited debate video, which included cricket sounds, would likely be labeled manipulated video per its new policy, unlike on Facebook  —  What's a joke and what's manipulation?  —  As platforms prepare for the upcoming 2020 election season, Twitter and Facebook …
Mike Bloomberg for President:
Mike Bloomberg says Bloomberg LP identified 3 NDAs over the past 30+ years about comments he allegedly made to women, who will be given a release on request  —  I've had the company go back over its record and they've identified 3 NDAs that we signed over the past 30-plus years with women …
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Twitter confirms it is testing bright labels beneath lies and misinfo posted by politicians and public figures, and points-based “community badges” for users
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Fox Corp has expressed interest in acquiring ad-supported streaming service Tubi in a deal that could be valued at more than $500M  —  Entertainment giants have been scooping up ad-supported video platforms to complement subscription offerings  —  Tubi or not Tubi.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal is in advanced talks to acquire streaming-video service Vudu from Walmart  —  The acquisition talks come a few months before NBCUniversal launches a news streaming service, Peacock  —  Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal is in advanced talks to acquire streaming-video service Vudu …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meredith Kopit Levien, currently the NYT's COO, is a front-runner among candidates to replace Mark Thompson as CEO as soon as April  —  - Longtime ad-sales executive would succeed Mark Thompson  — CEO change would follow a boom in digital subscribers
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Nielsen: about 19.7M people watched the debate on NBC and MSNBC combined, making it the most-watched Democratic primary debate of all time  —  New York (CNN Business)Nearly 20 million viewers tuned into Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC in Las Vegas …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
New York Times:
Sources: E. Jean Carroll's contract termination from Elle was in part due to a steep paycheck and giving away the news-breaking excerpt from her book to NY mag  —  Her contract was terminated early, but the fashion magazine maintains it wasn't because of her allegations against President Trump.
Conrad Duncan / The Independent:
BBC faces criticism for sharing a Question Time clip of an audience member making racist claims without fact-checking or contextualizing her comments  —  Viewers condemn show for sharing ‘misinformed’ comments without challenge  —  The BBC has been criticised for sharing a “racist” and …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Daily Memphian, a Memphis news site which launched in 2018 and generated controversy over its opaque fundraising, paywall, and staffing  —  It's generated controversy over its fundraising, its paywall, and its staffing.  But it's also about as close as a major American city …
Sasha von Oldershausen / New York Times:
How west Texas' oldest newspaper, The Big Bend Sentinel, is subsidizing its journalism through drinks, events, and weddings at a cafe inside its office building  —  Can drinks, community events and the occasional wedding subsidize small-town journalism?  —  MARFA, Texas …
 
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Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter:
Mitú, a Latinx youth-focused digital media company that has raised $52M in funding, has been acquired by Latinx media company Latido Networks
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Kathryn Hopkins / WWD:
Men's Journal has laid off its entire editorial staff; owner AMI to merge its editorial operations with California-based The Adventure Sports Network from April
Lili Bayer / Politico:
US-funded Radio Free Europe will resume Hungarian-language reporting in 2020, after restarting in Romania and Bulgaria in 2019 in a digital-only format
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Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Alliance for Audited Media takes over Brand Audience Report, which measures publications' audiences across platforms, from MPA, will publish it quarterly
Discussion: Folio
CNN:
The number of TV shows filmed in NYC has risen from 10 in 2002 to 73 in 2019 thanks to streaming media and a substantial tax credit offered by New York State
Bloomberg:
Sources: the Trump campaign has bought exclusive nationwide masthead ads on YouTube for days leading up to and on election day; ads may cost up to $1M+ a day
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
ViacomCBS to expand CBS All Access with content totaling ~30K episodes of TV and ~1K movies from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount, and others