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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Henry Blodget says Insider and Business Insider will use the same CMS and merge tech and editorial teams; BI's logo will no longer appear on Insider.com — Beginning Tuesday, Business Insider's logo will no longer appear on Insider.com's website, the publication's CEO and founder Henry Blodget tells Axios.
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Elon Musk's Clubhouse appearance was a kind of test case for a16z's media ambitions and showed how the app could work as the audio version of Medium — I. Andreessen Horowitz and the backdoor pilot — Hey, did you hear Elon Musk went on Clubhouse? — The media and venture capital worlds …
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The COVID Tracking Project:
The COVID Tracking Project, founded by three journalists and supported by The Atlantic, says it will issue its final update on March 7 and close in May — After a year of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting COVID-19 data for the United States, we're ending our data compilation work in early March.
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Political reporters need to be rebranded as government reporters, covering problems and those trying to solve them instead of who is winning messaging wars — The newly announced resignation of Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron, the abrupt stepping-down of Los Angeles Times …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Survey: 42% of Americans trust journalists more if they keep their views private; 36% trust them more if they are “open and honest” on social media about views
Survey: 42% of Americans trust journalists more if they keep their views private; 36% trust them more if they are “open and honest” on social media about views
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Myanmar's military taking control of the country through a coup and restricting internet access threatens an already-fragile free press — Yesterday—after a decade of democratic transition, five years of elected government, and several days of threats, apparent walkbacks, and rumors …
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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter restored the account of India's leading investigative magazine Caravan after six hours, telling officials that its tweets constituted free speech — The government order to block included a movie star, a political commentator, and a prominent magazine. Their accounts have all been restored.
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Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Spotify launches in South Korea, the world's sixth biggest music market — STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA on Tuesday made a long-awaited debut in South Korea, the sixth largest music market in the world and home to the K-pop music genre. — The Swedish music streaming giant …
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Around 80 journalists were arrested in Russia over the weekend amid continued pro-Navalny demonstrations, according to PEN America citing local media reports — Around 80 journalists were arrested in Russia over the weekend amid continued protests against the detainment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny …
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Jamie McKinnell / ABC:
Judge finds billionaire Chau Chak Wing was defamed by Australia's ABC show that portrayed him as CCP member and orders ABC to pay AU$590K — Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing has been awarded $590,000 after a judge found he was defamed by an ABC program that portrayed him as a Communist Party member.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
MSNBC president unveils organizational structure that emphasizes the difference between news and opinion and says it will hire a head of documentary acquisition — Rashida Jones, who took the helm of MSNBC on Monday, unveiled a new organizational structure that puts greater emphasis …
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Apollo-owned local TV broadcaster Cox Media Group has failed to reach a new carriage agreement with AT&T, leaving customers in 20 cities without some channels — Cox Media Group, a local-TV broadcaster owned by Apollo Global Management, and AT&T Inc. have failed to reach an agreement …
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
TikTok signs deal with media holding company WPP, allowing the latter's advertisers to have early access to TikTok's advertising products in development — Despite countries including India and the United States banning the app, TikTok has inked a partnership with media holding company WPP …
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