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Clio Chang / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters — Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one?
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
The race between far-right media outlets like OANN and Newsmax over which will embrace Trumpism the most heats up, as Fox News gets blamed for Trump's defeat — MAGA nation may be turning its back on Fox News — but it doesn't know where to go. — Parler, the “free speech” …
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Study: Fox News share of views in a “Partisan Right” group of YouTube channels fell from 17% before the election to 13% after; Newsmax grew from under 1% to 5% — Disinformation about election fraud is thriving on YouTube, and right-wing outlets that most aggressively push false information …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hicks Equity Partners, a PE firm with ties to a co-chair of RNC, has held talks in recent months about acquiring and investing in Newsmax
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Kate Storey / Esquire:
Over a dozen CNN insiders, including Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash, and Abby Phillip, on how CNN covered the longest and most dramatic Election Week in recent memory — As Election Night 2020 bled into Election Week, the talking heads on CNN became something like members of our families.
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Sources: News Corp is making a bid for Simon & Schuster; at least one offer for the publisher is for more than $1.7B, far above the minimum ViacomCBS had set — A sale of the venerable publisher of Stephen King and Hillary Clinton could fetch $1.7 billion and rev up consolidation in book publishing.
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@nytimes and @jeffjarvis
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
Patricia Escárcega, LA Times' first Latinx food critic, denounces the paper, accusing it of paying her significantly less than her white male counterpart — Los Angeles Times food critic Patricia Escarcega denounced the newspaper in a Twitter thread on Sunday, accusing her employers …
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Will Oremus / OneZero:
A look at the debate over the kind of news Facebook users are reading, after Facebook released more data on top performing link posts in the US — What kind of news does the news feed feed when the news feed does feed news? - Since July, New York Times journalist Kevin Roose …
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@estherkeziat, @willoremus, Context is King and @evelyndouek
Financial Times:
Privacy campaigner Max Schrems files complaints in Spain and Germany claiming Apple's IDFA ad tracking tools unlawfully track users without consent — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law by enabling iPhone users …
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
Universal signs with Cinemark to shorten theatrical window to 17 days, but films with $50M+ opening get 31 days, a new clause that sources say will apply to AMC — Nearly five months after Universal reached a deal with AMC Theaters to radically change the theatrical window and share …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Interview with President Macron on free speech and secularism, as he accuses the English-language press of “legitimizing” the violence of terrorist attacks — After terrorist attacks, France's leader accuses the English-language media of “legitimizing this violence.”
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Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:
WarnerMedia says HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire devices from November 17 — WarnerMedia-owned streaming service will be available beginning Tuesday — HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire TV devices beginning Tuesday, Nov. 17, the streaming service said Monday.
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Aditya Chunduru / MediaNama:
India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting tells digital news media outlets to reduce their foreign investments to 26% by October 15, 2021 — Digital news outlets have until October 15, 2021 to reduce their foreign investments to 26%, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting announced on Monday.
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