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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Ezra Klein, co-founder and editor-at-large of Vox.com, and Lauren Williams, editor-in-chief and senior vice president, are leaving the company — Ezra Klein, co-founder and editor-at-large of Vox.com, the political news website owned by Vox Media, and Lauren Williams, editor-in-chief …
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The New York Times Company:
Ezra Klein is joining NYT Opinion in January as a columnist and podcast host — Ezra, in his columns and on his podcast, will be able to help our readers and listeners navigate the political future as Washington moves into a new era. Read more in this note from Kathleen Kingsbury and Paula Szuchman.
Drew Armstrong / Bloomberg:
A look at Covid Tracking Project, started by three journalists, with The Atlantic providing legal, comms, and tech support, to track the US spread of COVID-19 — At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs.
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@armstrongdrew, @alexismadrigal, @maxcroser, @adriennelaf and @edyong209, more at Techmeme »
Ben Smith / New York Times:
A look at Biden's relationship with the press and how it differs from Trump's, as his win is good news for old-line newspaper columnists and writer Jon Meacham — The next president promises to do for old-line newspaper columnists what Donald Trump did for cable. What a time to be George Will!
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti argues The NYT can't be called “the paper of record” because its subscription model cuts it off from a broader, more diverse readership — The Times's subscription business is booming. But the BuzzFeed CEO has a critique.
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Hunter Walk / Medium:
Paid newsletters won't bring in enough money on their own for most writers, but creators can have multiple SKUs like podcasts, speaking gigs, and book deals — A number of reporters and columnists these days are “going indie,” detaching from their previous employer and signing up with a site like Substack …
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New York Times:
Profile of Newsmax, which has become an unusual tribune for Trump's baseless accusations of voter fraud and whose owner is a longtime friend of the president — A once-niche conservative cable network, owned by a longtime friend of the president, lures audiences by refusing to declare an electoral winner.
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Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after rising by a ~30% quarterly average since Q3 2015 — Spending big money to make big money in the ad business may no longer be on the table inside Facebook's network — Facebook Inc.'s platforms are starting to feel like homes with too much furniture.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's DMGT reports full-year results: revenue down 10% YoY to £1.2B, pre-tax profits dropped 36% YoY to £72M, and ad revenue fell 9% YoY to £231M — Mail Online grew revenues by 3% in the year to September despite Covid-19 hammering other parts of the business.
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Financial Times, Exhibition World and Reuters
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Nonprofit ad group Ad Council is planning a $50M campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccines to skeptical Americans, after a similar polio campaign in the 1950s — The nonprofit marketing group led a polio vaccine campaign in the 1950s. Now it is working on a $50 million ad blitz to counter concerns about coming treatments.
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
Trump's clear election loss has splintered the right-wing online info ecosystem, forcing outlets, platforms, and commentators to choose reality or Trump — News outlets, tech platforms, and political commentators had to choose between upholding the facts and indulging those who believe Trump won.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
US judge orders Michael Pack to stop interfering in VOA's news coverage and personnel matters, and rules he acted unconstitutionally in pursuing bias claims — Toggle more options — The chief executive over the Voice of America and its sister networks has acted unconstitutionally …
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