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Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
The Texas Tribune has hired Stacy-Marie Ishmael as editorial director and Millie Tran as chief product officer — These superlative journalists and inspiring role models will be The Texas Tribune's new editorial director and chief product officer, respectively. We're so lucky to have them on our team.
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Newsrooms, like WaPo and ABC News, must stop giving in to online trolls using “fairness” and “impartiality” to bait them into failing to protect their reporters — It's time to get smarter about the internet — and fast — In 2018, a reporter at The Verge …
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Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
Sources: Bloomberg threatened to shutter Bloomberg View after getting a call from his friend, a hedge fund manager who complained about a column criticizing him — Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could shadow his presidential bid.
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Talking Biz News, @felixsalmon and @thetattooedprof
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Proposed amendment to CA's AB5 for freelancer writers, editors, and photographers removes 35-article cap and requires that contracts state pay rates and more — Amendments to AB 1850 end the controversial 35-submission cap for freelance journalists and requires that companies allow independent contractors to work for other businesses.
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Folio, leginfo.legislature.ca.gov and @lorenasgonzalez
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
NBCU's Peacock makes a licensing deal with A&E Networks; the content won't be available at launch in April but will arrive later in the year — Peacock, NBCU's upcoming streaming service is expanding its unscripted lineup thanks to a new deal with A&E Networks.
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The Wrap and The Streamable
The Guardian:
In HK, anti-Beijing publisher Jimmy Lai charged with illegal assembly for attending a protest and intimidation for swearing at a reporter for pro-Beijing paper — Lai, who was arrested with two other activists and later released on bail, has been a major financial patron of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
As with Trump in 2016, mainstream media is dismissing Sanders, when their job is to report on voters' choices, not to elevate candidates they think should win — The Wednesday morning after the 2016 presidential election, I wrote a piece for CJR criticizing the American press for its coverage …
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@allyssapollard, @allyssapollard, @kylepope, @allyssapollard, @vb2b, @cjr, @jayrosen_nyu, @hshaban, @davidsirota and @jon_allsop
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
LinkedIn is testing Snapchat-style stories, with plans for wider public tests in the coming months — Nothing says ‘fun’ like corporate stories — LinkedIn is a website that's effectively a mixture between an interactive resume and a college job fair, but that hasn't stopped it from aspiring …
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Forbes, Marketing Land, Social Media Today and Input
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Stem Disintermedia launches Scale for musicians, an alternative to deals with record labels that take ownership of music, offering financing at 5% to 25% — - Stem Disintermedia offers alternative to deals with labels — Musicians can select how much they want to borrow, and when
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Hillary Clinton to launch a podcast in late spring, co-produced by iHeartRadio and iHeartMedia, featuring her in conversation with a guest — Hillary Clinton is starting a podcast. — The former first lady, secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee is planning to launch …
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Breitbart, Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, @ryanlizza, The Verge, Newser, The Week, CNN, Deadline, Mediaite, New York Post and The Hill
Bloomberg:
TikTok, with 145M US downloads, claims Chipotle-sponsored #boorito hashtag had 3.9B views; Captiv8: hashtag campaigns cost ~$150K, homescreen takeover $50K/day — Popular creators are paid to promote hashtags as mobile video app develops more targeting tools for advertisers
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Reporters Without Borders:
Canadian police arrested an American documentary filmmaker wearing a press pass while she was filming indigenous protests; she must appear in court in April — Following the February 24 arrest of documentary filmmaker Melissa Cox, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police …
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