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1:05 AM ET, January 27, 2021

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Washington Post:
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron is retiring on February 28 after eight years at the paper and nearly 45 years in journalism  —  Washington Post Publisher and CEO Fred Ryan today shared the following note with Post employees.  —  Dear Washington Post colleagues,
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
After 10 months on Substack, the group behind the Everything Bundle is launching with its own platform, a new brand named Every, and $600K in seed funding  —  After 10 months as a collection of newsletters created via Substack, the team behind the Everything Bundle is breaking out on its own …
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Idaho Statesman Editor Christina Lords confirms she was fired for violating McClatchy's social media policy and doesn't regret her tweet advocating for staff  —  Before she was appointed the top editor at the Idaho Statesman, Christina Lords was known for going to bat for her staff.
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Margaret Carmel / BoiseDev:
Idaho News Guild says Idaho Statesman's top editor was fired over her tweet advocating for staff resources in a protest letter sent to McClatchy management
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Larry Kudlow, the former CNBC star and Trump's economic adviser, will host a new show on Fox Business and also appear as an analyst on Fox Business and Fox News  —  Larry Kudlow, the former CNBC star who served as director of President Donald J. Trump's National Economic Council, is returning to broadcasting.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Source: Fox News talked with Kayleigh McEnany after the election about a job but paused discussions; network says she is not a current employee or contributor
Aymann Ismail / Slate:
NYT national political reporter Astead W. Herndon on covering Trump's first rallies, the biggest mistake in early reporting, and when to use the word racist  —  This is part of What We Learned, a series of reflections on the meaning and legacy of the Trump years.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT will never be able to uniformly enforce its social media behavior policy and should remove the language of journalists being “perceived as biased” from it  —  Lauren Wolfe made no ripples last May when she started as a freelance editor at the New York Times.
Tyler Fleming / Post and Courier:
Profile of Joshua Dawsey, who started in high school as EIC of a South Carolina weekly and is now on WaPo's investigations team after covering Trump White House  —  AYNOR — Often when the former Trump Administration made international news, a byline recognizable to many in Aynor ran atop The Washington Post's coverage.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku and Amazon make a deal to bring the ad-supported IMDb TV to the Roku Channel, expanding the reach of Amazon-owned IMDb TV, which is also on Fire TV devices  —  In a classic case of co-opetition, Roku inked a deal with Amazon to bring the IMDb TV free, ad-supported streaming service to the Roku platform in the U.S.
Richard Nieva / CNET:
YouTube says it is extending its suspension of Trump from posting videos to his channel, but did not say how long the extension would last  —  The Google-owned platform first suspended Trump on January 12. … YouTube on Tuesday said it's again extending its suspension of former President Donald Trump …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Washington Post's Zeus ad tech platform adds video to the range of formats publishers can sell; video ads are especially important for local broadcast companies  —  The Washington Post will expand its performance software on Tuesday to add video to Zeus, its suite of ad placement and optimization tools.
Ashley Gold / Axios:
Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer volunteers as counsel at Oracle-funded Internet Accountability Project and often posts pieces critical of Big Tech, Google  —  Newsweek's opinion page editor, Josh Hammer, consistently publishes op-eds slamming Big Tech and Google while remaining counsel …
Discussion: @ashleyrgold and @jaredbkeller
 
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