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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
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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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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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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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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
While media fell dismayingly short in myriad ways in the last four years, it has managed to do its job despite Trump's branding it as “the enemy of the people” — One way or another, Donald Trump will soon be gone from the White House. And that, to quote Prince Hamlet, is “a consummation devoutly to be wished.”
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Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Bryan Monroe, a journalism professor, former president of NABJ, and a former editor at Knight Ridder and CNNPolitics.com, has died of a heart attack at 55 — (CNN)Bryan Monroe, a journalism professor and former CNNPolitics.com editor who once headed the National Association of Black Journalists …
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Politico:
Biden team is planning a 90-minute celebrity TV special for inauguration night, to be broadcast on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC but not Fox — President-elect Joe Biden's inaugural committee is producing a television special for the night of his inauguration next week in lieu of the normal …
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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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@dofornop, @simonowens, @megancgraham, @herrmanndigital, @megancgraham, @megancgraham and MediaPost
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