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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: NY Post editors tell staff not to use reporting from CNN, MSNBC, NYT, and WaPo as the sole basis for any Post article without independent confirmation — As the Murdoch tabloid navigates a fraught political moment, high-level editors instructed reporters not to base articles …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Axios will launch AxiosHQ, its internal company communications service, starting at $10K a year with $1M already booked and Delta and AT&T among its clients — AxiosHQ communications platform to launch with Delta Air Lines and AT&T among early customers
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Paul J. Boyle / News Media Alliance:
News Media Alliance and National Newspaper Association join a legal challenge to an order that would eliminate the cap on postal rate increases for periodicals — Postal Regulatory Commission Order Could Lead to Postage Increases of 45 Percent Over Five Years, Representing Existential Threat to Newspapers
Calum Marsh / New York Times:
Profile of New Zealand-based Letterboxd, a social network for reviewing movies, which has grown to 3M member accounts during the pandemic — The social media network has finally left the cinephile niche and entered the mainstream. — Early last decade, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ampere: Netflix is Europe's second largest TV group with 6.1% market share by revenue, second only to Comcast, which owns Sky, and has 12% market share — Comcast, which owns pay TV operator Sky's European operations, remains the leader with a 12% market share by revenue.
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David Cohen / Adweek:
TikTok debuts TikTok for Black Creatives, a three-month incubator program for investing in and supporting 100 Black creators and musical artists — The video creation platform teamed up with multiplatform media company Macro
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting Cable:
DoubleVerify says it has received Media Rating Council accreditation for its ad impression measurement and ad fraud detection for CTVs — DoubleVerify gauges display and video impressions and invalid traffic — DoubleVerify said it received Media Rating Council accreditation for its display …
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Bloomberg:
Netflix diversity report: women make up 47.1% of its global workforce; 8% of US staff are Black, more than 2x the share in 2017; 8.1% of employees are Hispanic — Netflix Inc. has made gains in adding women and minorities to its workforce over the past three years, vaulting it past Silicon Valley peers …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
One week later, Fox News is yet to acknowledge how the incendiary rhetoric from its shows and stars may have helped inspire the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol — Among some prominent Republicans, inside social media companies and in other major institutions throughout society …
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Matthew Schneier / The Cut:
Bridget Foley, the executive editor of Women's Wear Daily and a pillar of the paper's fashion coverage for over 30 years, has been laid off — The convulsions of 2020 claimed a number of fashion institutions as we know them — Neiman Marcus, Brooks Brothers, Century 21, the list goes on …
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Google says it will pause political ads, and those referencing “impeachment, inauguration or protests at the US Capitol” on all its platforms starting Jan. 14 — - Google is suspending political ads along with any reference to “impeachment, inauguration or protests at the U.S. Capitol” beginning Thursday.
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Survey of 52 ad buyers who represent $15B in US ad spend finds Amazon will be the leading market share gainer among major digital ads businesses in 2021, 2022 — - Amazon will be the leading share gainer among the major digital ads businesses in 2021 and 2022, according to a new ad buyer survey from Cowen.
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