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4:00 AM ET, February 13, 2021

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Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Biden deputy press sec T.J. Ducklo threatened Politico's Tara Palmeri after finding out she was reporting on his relationship with an Axios journalist  —  Deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo lashed out at journalist Tara Palmeri, spurring conversations between Politico's brass and the White House …
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Jen Psaki says T.J. Ducklo has been placed on a one-week suspension without pay and will no longer be assigned to work with any Politico reporters  —  TJ Ducklo has been placed on a one-week suspension without pay, @PressSec says. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Glader / Poynter:
Vett News launches Cx, a tool that allows readers to more easily report corrections of online articles to their publishers  —  We can thank and reward readers who help us improve accuracy rather than treating them as nags.  —  The path to improve reader trust may be simpler than we realize.
Margaret Barthel / DCist:
An independent journalist is suing Washington, DC police over his arrest at a racial justice protest and their withholding of his cameras and phone for 10 weeks  —  Local independent journalist and documentarian Kian Kelley-Chung was one of more than 40 people arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department …
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
SAG-AFTRA's agreement to represent social media creators is the latest sign that the business of influence has become a key part of the entertainment industry  —  SAG-AFTRA has approved a new “influencer agreement.”  —  Social media creators have a new way to join Hollywood's biggest union.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Michael Pack cited security concerns for not extending J-1 visas, but a memo shows the rationale was to prioritize jobs for US citizens, which VOA does anyway  —  Nabila Ganinda was awaiting a green light from the U.S. Agency for Global Media.  —  The agency had hired Ganinda …
Aliya S. King / LEVEL:
Roundtable interview with hip-hop journalists who wrote for Vibe, XXL, and The Source in the '90s and early '00s on their turn from journalism to movies and TV  —  Some of the genre's best and brightest come together to talk about why they made the transition from rap magazines to TV and movies—and how
Sara Fischer / Axios:
LinkedIn announces the formation of a global creator management team, led by its EIC Dan Roth, aiming to support and grow content creators on the platform  —  LinkedIn is building a creator management team to help grow its community of content creators on the platform, according to an announcement from the company's editor in chief.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
An independent review links The Philadelphia Inquirer's predominantly white newsroom to its news coverage overrepresenting white people, especially white men  —  The Philadelphia Inquirer has an overwhelmingly white newsroom and fails to retain journalists of color, resulting in news coverage …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: ViacomCBS is working on a 60 Minutes spinoff for Paramount+  —  After short-lived Quibi foray, the concept will find new life at Paramount+ service  —  ViacomCBS Inc. is reviving a streaming version of the newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” hoping the series can draw viewers …
Discussion: @lucas_shaw and @newsynick
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:
Chappelle's Show returns to Netflix with Dave Chappelle's blessing; Chappelle says he's gotten his license back from ViacomCBS along with “millions of dollars”  —  “Chappelle's Show” has returned to Netflix Feb. 12 — three months after Dave Chappelle requested the Comedy Central series …
 
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Twitter bans Project Veritas' account for “repeated violations of Twitter's private information policy” and temporarily locks James O'Keefe's personal account
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Bloomberg is laying off employees as part of a “new structure to elevate editing”; sources: layoffs will affect about 90 employees
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Microsoft pres. says US and other countries should consider adopting rules like Australia's proposed laws, which force tech companies to pay for news content
The Daily Beast:
NYT Opinion editor says it was her decision to spike a Bret Stephens column criticizing Baquet's reasons for firing McNeil, not Sulzberger's as Stephens claims
 

 
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account's username had 52+ characters

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Intel scraps forecast of selling $500M+ worth of Gaudi AI accelerator chips in 2024, with CEO Pat Gelsinger citing chip transition and slower uptake to software

 
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