Mediagazer: Sanity, which helps developers create systems to manage content and has clients including Condé Nast, raises $9.3M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Columbia Journalism Review:

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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

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Ashley Carman / The Verge:

Spotify says Anchor creators in the US, UK, NZ, Canada, Australia, and Ireland can now add entire music tracks to their podcasts, as opposed to a brief sample — Listeners can save the songs for later, too — Spotify is tying podcasts and music close together.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Sources: Bloomberg Media made $30M+ last year from its New Economy Forum, which makes up for more than half of the company's total live events business — Bloomberg's New Economy Forum, going virtual this year for the first time, is on track to challenge the likes of the World Economic Forum, The Aspen Ideas Festival and others.

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Google launches Journalist Studio, a suite of tech-powered tools, including Pinpoint, designed to help reporters work with large data sets — Google is putting A.I. and machine learning technologies into the hands of journalists. The company this morning announced a suite of new tools …

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The Daily Beast:

Current and former Fox News staffers say its new Election Integrity Project is designed to reinforce and amplify Trump's erroneous accusations about voter fraud — ‘PROMOTING DOUBT’ … A seemingly innocuous project to chronicle “election irregularities” feels like “an attempt to push …

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David Sivak / Washington Examiner:

Washington Examiner hires Greg Wilson as its managing editor; Wilson was previously the managing editor at foxnews.com — WASHINGTON — The Washington Examiner is delighted to welcome Greg Wilson as its new managing editor. — Greg will oversee all of the Washington Examiner's newsroom …

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

UK's JPI Media says it had pre-tax loss of £47.7M in 2019 on revenue of £145.9M, of which £52.2M came from newspaper sales and £72.5M from advertising — Regional publisher JPI Media has revealed its first financial statement since buying Johnson Press' assets …

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Hollywood Reporter:

Top Bollywood filmmakers and industry unions file a lawsuit against two TV news channels spreading allegations following the suspected suicide of an actor — Stars including Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar have come together in a lawsuit against two news channels …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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AMC Theatres says existing cash resources would be “largely depleted” by the end of 2020 or early 2021 due to reduced movie slate and attendance, down 85% YoY

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