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US DOJ escalates the legal battle against John Bolton, seeking a temporary restraining order blocking publication of his White House memoir — The Justice Department on Wednesday night sought an emergency order from a judge blocking the publication of former national security adviser John …
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Sources: heads of 4 outlets overseen by the US Agency for Global Media were fired Wednesday, heightening fear that CEO Michael Pack will politicize the agency — New York (CNN Business)The new chief executive of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has yet to show up for his job …
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Callum Borchers / WBUR:
Boston NPR affiliate WBUR, one of the largest in public radio, to lay off 29 people, or 10%+ of its staff, to help reduce its operating budget by ~13%, to ~$40M — WBUR will lay off more than 10% of the station's staff, including several newsroom leaders, and stop producing …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Kim Kardashian West reaches a deal with Spotify for a podcast about her work with the Innocence Project, which seeks to clear wrongly convicted people — Show would explore the celebrity's work with the Innocence Project — Kim Kardashian West reached a deal with Spotify Technology SA …
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Tomi Kilgore / MarketWatch:
Sinclair says it will launch a headline news service in early 2021 focusing on commentary-free content provided by its network of local broadcast stations — Referenced Symbols — Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. SBGI, -3.45% said Wednesday it will be hiring 25 new positions …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Study: more nonprofit newsrooms were launched in 2018-2019 than in any year since 2008-2009; 78 are focused on local news, 10 more than last year — News organizations that have turned to the nonprofit model have often focused on national or investigative news but this year's INN Index …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
SiriusXM will acquire podcast management platform Simplecast, with plans to integrate the company with its digital audio ads subsidiary AdsWizz — Podcasting continues to see a strong trajectory in the world of streamed audio content, and today comes the latest development on that front.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
After June 30, when Alden can increase its Tribune stake, Alden could take full control or force a sale or Tribune could sell off its papers separately — Alden Global Capital could take full control or force a sale. The LA Times' owner could play spoiler. Or Tribune's papers could be sold piecemeal.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
No, Google didn't demonetize The Federalist and Zero Hedge, as NBC's misleading story claims, and it is not an example of anti-conservative bias — from the another-day-another-story dept — So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge.
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Aaron Holmes / Business Insider:
Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue
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Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Facebook and Instagram will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday; the feature will roll out to all US users over the next few weeks — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
CJR and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism launch The Journalism Crisis Project to document and examine the scope of job losses and newsroom cutbacks — For years, we've watched local journalism efforts wither and news deserts form, leaving a growing list of critical stories uncovered.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Reuters survey: BBC News is more trusted in the US than the country's largest news brands like WSJ, CBS News, and NYT, and second only to local television news — BBC News is more trusted in the United States than the country's largest national news brands, a survey published today suggests.
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The Information:
Sources: TikTok expects its US revenue to hit $500M this year; in 2019, TikTok brought in about $200M to $300M in worldwide revenue — TikTok has taken off like a rocket ship in the U.S. and around the world, creating a new mobile video experience that has left YouTube and Facebook scrambling to keep up.
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@scottporch, @digitalshields, @alexeheath, @annaknicolaou and @amir, more at Techmeme »
HuffPost:
American police have a far-right media ecosystem of their own, with rampant misinformation and bigotry and extremist views dictating the narrative — Cops have a far-right media ecosystem of their own, where they post racist memes, spread disinformation and call for violence against antifa.
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